Ghana has stepped up efforts to attract Australian investment into its growing critical minerals sector, pitching the country as a stable and reform-driven destination for mining and value-added mineral development at the 2026 Africa Down Under (ADU) Summit in Perth. The Ghanaian delegation was led...
Ashapura Minechem is preparing for its next phase of growth by expanding its Guinea bauxite operations while shifting its Indian business towards higher-value mineral products. The company is targeting 15 million tonnes of annual bauxite volumes by FY28, a level management believes could generate...
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State-run National Aluminium Company Ltd. (NALCO) has reported highest ever bauxite and alumina production for the year 2011-12. The company has achieved the highest-ever bauxite production of 50.03 lakh tonnes, against the previous best of 48.79 lakh tonnes achieved in 2009-10, company sources...
The Bauxite Company of Guyana Incorporated (BCGI)-majority owned by Russian Aluminium (RUSAL)- has moved to the High Court and secured a temporary stay of arbitration proceedings ordered by government into a dispute between the company and the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GBGWU). When...
Australian Bauxite Limited (ASX:ABZ.AX - News) achieved its objectives during 2011 and the outlook remains positive for 2012 as the company progresses from an explorer to a bauxite development-exploration company. Total company bauxite resources doubled to 84 million tonnes during the year and two...
A study into the mining of bauxite in Ghana has recommended government policy that makes it mandatory for foreign companies that want to mine the resource to establish a refinery plant. This would help maximise the potential in the sector. It said while most foreign companies that had held equity...
Minister of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining (STEM), Hon. Phillip Paulwell, while seeking to restore the bauxite and alumina industry to its pre-eminent position, has his eyes sharply focused on “unleashing the potential of Jamaica’s limestone." During his recent introductory meeting with the...
The management of Bosai Minerals Group Guyana Incorporated says its dust collector is about 90 percent completed as the company seeks to reduce dust emissions from its kiln dryers in Linden. The bauxite company has been working with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Guyana Geology...
Indonesian bauxite miners have stopped production due to uncertainties over potential export law changes, said Barclays Capital in a research note. According to the bank, bauxite miners are to stop producing until there are clearer export regulations. The miners, particularly in Riau and Kalimantan...
Mining company Rio Tinto Alcan says it has met with Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke to discuss new conditions on its proposed bauxite mine expansion in Queensland's Cape York. The company raised concerns after Mr Burke included the impact of shipping on the Great Barrier Reef as a...
Angola's $500 million plan to build a bauxite mine and deepwater port in Guinea Bissau has stalled, with nearly no work done since the project was officially inaugurated in July 2011, officials said. The project, first signalled by Angola in 2008 after it won rights to a mining concession in the...
A TOTAL of 40,000 tonnes of bauxite has been mined so far this year. However, XINFA Aurum Exploration Fiji has stockpiled the bauxite as engineers work at completing the Navakasiga Jetty. This was made known to a group of journalists, who visited Nawailevu Bauxite mine yesterday. The group was on a...
Reuters reported that Guinea has opened contacts with United Arab Emirates investment fund Mubadala over a possible stake in its CBG bauxite JV with Alcoa and Rio Tinto. Mr Mohamed Lamine Fofana mines minister of Guinea said that Guinea, the world's largest exporter of the raw material of aluminium...
The Central European Aluminium Company is expected to give its position, by the end of the week, on the Government 's request to voluntarily transfer its shares in the Aluminium Plant Podgorica (KAP) and the Bauxite Mines to Montenegro, because of its failure to adhere to the Settlement Agreement....
Abu Dhabi’s Mubadala Development Co. plans to begin evaluating Guinea’s state-owned bauxite producer Cie des Bauxites de Guinee, according to a government official. Guinea is seeking a $300 million investment to expand production, Mines Minister Mohamed Lamine Fofana told reporters today in...
London-based Indian metals and mining company Vedanta Group has offered INR170 billion ($3.4 billion) to buy the Indian government's remaining stakes in Hindustan Zinc and Bharat Aluminium, according to Vishwapati Trivedi, secretary at the Ministry of Mines. Purchasing the stakes will give...
GIA announces the release of a comprehensive global report on Bauxite and Alumina markets. The global market for Bauxite and Alumina is forecast to reach 211.3 and 76.2 million metric tons, respectively, by the year 2017. With global economy on the growth path post recession, both production and...
The Chairman of Sierra Leone Mining and Exploration Company (SLEMCO), Mr. Alieu Mohamed Sesay, is currently marketing Sierra Leone to investors from across the world, as investment friendly destination. At the 18th Bauxite and Alumina Seminar that took place in Miami, Florida, USA from 6th to 8th...
THE POSSIBILITY of open cut mining of bauxite in the north-eastern parts of Upper Lachlan Shire could pose problems for landholders in the area, and Council should prepare for such a situation. At last week’s Council meeting Council Cr. Malcolm Barlow gave notice of motion that a development...
Australian Bauxite (ASX:ABZ) Announce, consequent to the outstanding drilling results at Taralga, State One Stockbroking has set a price target of $1.26 for Australian Bauxite. The complete Analyst Report an be accessed by clicking on the following link: http://abnnewswire.net/lnk/ETOP97K3 About...
