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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The proposed expansion by Bosai Mining Company should be viewed with some level of concern given the Company’s history of environmental non-compliance. This concern is further exacerbated by the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment’s admission that “development comes at a cost”. It must be...
Federal Environment Minister Tony Burke has imposed new environmental conditions on the proposed expansion of a Rio Tinto mine near Weipa, on western Cape York, in far north Queensland. Mr Burke says he has taken into account the impact the expansion will have on the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park....
A Chinese mining company says it plans a $100 million expansion of its bauxite operations in the South American country of Guyana. Chongqing-based Bosai Minerals Group says it will build a new kiln to process bauxite at its plant in southeast Linden, as well as install heavy-duty generators and...
The Ghana Chamber of Mines has warned that Ghana’s bauxite industry may collapse if the country’s transportation system is not fixed immediately. Ghana’s bauxite industry has recorded a plunge over the years due to poor railway lines and deteriorating road networks that hamper the transportation of...
The agreement coincides with a deal to explore new mining opportunities signed by the government of Guinea and a Middle East investment fund, which also employs Mr Blair as an adviser on business matters. That contract potentially opens Mr Blair up to accusations of a conflict of interest — as an...
TNG Limited (ASX: TNG) has agreed in-principle terms for a farm-in and joint venture agreement on its 100% owned Melville Island licence in the Northern Territory with Rio Tinto (ASX: RIO) subsidiary Rio Tinto Exploration. Melville Island, which covers about 1,400 square kilometres, has been a...
Visakhapatnam, Mar 4 (UNI) Andhra Pradesh Tribal Welfare Minister P Balaraju today said he was against bauxite mining in Girigen Adivasi-dominated areas in Visakhapatnam district. Addressing a news conference here, he said 'as a tribal, I am against bauxite mining in the agency areas in the...
Alecto Minerals’ (LON:ALO) acquisition of bauxite licence 223 in Guinea could quickly transform the company into a producer, broker Fox-Davies said today. Analyst Peter Rose said the area could potentially host a bauxite resource of over 500 million tonnes and is contiguous to the 3.1 million tonne...
An almost three-year-old dispute that led to the controversial sacking of 67 bauxite workers has been sent for arbitration, a statement from the union said over the weekend. According to the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GB&GWU), it is welcoming the decision of Minister of Labour, Dr....
Three years after 62 workers were dismissed by the local subsidiary of Russian Aluminium (RUSAL) and a senior company official had allegedly threatened to assault workers, the Guyana government has decided to take the dispute to arbitration. President of the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union...
No bauxite mining will be permitted in the Eastern Ghats of Visakhapatnam district, inhabited by Girijans and popularly known as the agency area, according to Union Ministers, Mr Jairam Ramesh and Mr Kishore Chandra Deo. The two ministers gave the assurance at a public meeting at Chintapalli in the...
Ord River Resources (ASX: ORD) is in the final stages of a JORC Resource statement for the Yuqida prospect at the company’s bauxite bauxite/alumina project in Laos, which follows a 300% increase in the LSI tenement in late 2011. Proposals for a Bankable Feasibility Study at the project are being...
If Vedanta scrapped its 2008-initiated ambitious restructuring based on business verticals, it was primarily due to two reasons: the valuation of Africa’s Konkola Copper Mines (KCM) and a slowdown that had begun to plague the economy. Four years later, the metals and mining company is back with...
Vedanta Aluminium Ltd has been asked by the government to seek public consent afresh in Kalahandi district of Orissa as a precursor to getting environmental clearance for expanding its alumina refinery and power plant, a move the company wants to avoid as it seeks to get a plan that’s been stalled...
Raipur: The nationwide strike called by the country's trade unions has hit bauxite, coal and iron ore mining in mineral-rich Chhattisgarh, officials said on Tuesday. Reports coming in from the state's northern Surguja district say that bauxite mining has been severely hit at Mainpat area, about 450...
First Bauxite Corporation is now looking to secure funding for the development of the Bonasika mine along the Essequibo River. Chief executive officer, Hilbert Shields met President Donald Ramotar yesterday, to update him on the latest developments within the company. Shields told the government...
Alecto Minerals (LON:ALO) shares shot up as much as 20 per cent today as it landed an option deal to acquire a new project in Guinea. It can buy a 51 per cent stake in a company called Forward Africa Resources (FAR), which owns a 711 square kilometre bauxite licence in the highly prospective south...
Alecto Minerals plc, the AIM listed exploration and development company with gold and base metal projects in Ethiopia and Mauritania, is delighted to announce that it has entered into an option agreement (‘the Agreement') relating to the staged acquisition of Forward Africa Resources (‘FAR'), which...
