China’s bauxite imports continued to rise in the first nine months of 2026, with Guinea accounting for nearly 80 per cent of its total supply. Against this backdrop, Alurion Resources, an independent company following a demerger from Brazilian Rare Earths, is advancing its Amargosa Bauxite-Gallium Project in Bahia, Brazil, through infill drilling, bulk sampling and export-logistics studies, targeting a pre-feasibility study (PFS) by mid-2027. The company’s September 2026 quarterly activities report outlines plans to improve bauxite resource estimates, assess processing yields and evaluate export routes, as it works towards establishing a scalable direct-shipping bauxite (DSB) operation. Explore the production, demand and consumption forecasts of bauxite and alumina in our report: "Global...
Metro Mining Limited shipped 2.1 million wet metric tonnes (WMT) of bauxite in the third quarter of 2026, up 17 per cent from 1.8 million WMT in the previous quarter. However, shipments remained below the 2.25 million WMT recorded in Q3 2025. The Australian bauxite producer reported improved market pricing during the July–September quarter, with its delivered (CIF) price rising by 6.5 per cent to AUD 60.8 (USD 42.79) per WMT from AUD 57.1 (USD 40.18) per WMT in Q2. Site EBITDA increased to AUD 7 (USD 4.93) per WMT from AUD 4.4 (USD 3.10) per WMT. Mining and shipping operations faced maintenance work, equipment issues and channel erosion during the quarter. The company said its offshore floating terminal, Ikamba, underwent a one-week shutdown in July to replace four large hydraulic crane...
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Araku Valley (Visakhapatnam), Jan 10 (PTI) Andhra Pradesh Assembly Speaker, N Manohar, today assured that he would take up the issue of bauxite mining in Agency area of Visakhapatnam district with the Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy. Speaking at an orientation programme `Girijan Development-Government welfare schemes for the first-time state legislators here, Manohar said bauxite mining was the biggest issue in the Agency area and it would be discussed in the Assembly. The local tribals are opposed to the bauxite mining, fearing ecological problems and loss of livelihood. Manohar, on this occasion, also announced release of funds from the Constituency Development Fund for the Girijan areas in the district. The Assembly was conducting such an orientation programme for the first time,...
Australia is the leading producer of bauxite and alumina globally as well as the fifth largest aluminum producer in the world. Demand for bauxite is growing at a faster rate than the growth in global industrial production. In the emerging economies of Asia and India, bauxite demand is particularly strong. Australia's aluminum industry is a large integrated industry of mining, refining, smelting and semi-fabrication, which is of major economic importance nationally and globally. The most significant deposits of bauxite in Australia are located at Weipa in northern Queensland, at Gove on the Gove Peninsula in Northern Territory, and in the Darling Range and Mitchell Plateau areas of Western Australia. Deposits at Mitchell Plateau and Cape Bougainville in the north of Western Australia are...
Anrak Aluminium Limited (AAL) which is in trouble due to moratorium imposed on clearances for bauxite mining in scheduled areas of Visakhapatnam, is reportedly planning to source bauxite ore through Glencore – world's leading commodity trader. AAL, floated by Penna Group and Ras Al Khaimah Investment Authority on a 70:30 ratio following a memorandum of understanding with Andhra Pradesh Government on February 14, 2007, is in advanced stage of completing construction of 1.5 million tonne per annum capacity alumina refinery at Rachapalle in Makavarapalem mandal, about 100 km from here. To operate the refinery, at least till the lifting of the moratorium on bauxite mining, it is expected to bring the ore through Glencore if it strikes a deal with it. There were reports that it is also making...
A Barge from China arrived in the country yesterday to take back soil from a bauxite mine in Bua. The barge which anchored at Malau, outside Labasa Town, will take to China the soil already stockpiled at Nawailevu in Bua. Director of Mineral Resources Malakai Finau confirmed that soil from the bauxite mine had already been piled up awaiting the arrival of the barge. "There is a certain amount of soil that needs to be dug and piled up before the barge can make its way down to Navakasiga in Bua to load the first shipment of soil," he said. "Right now the work at the bauxite mine is well underway with the soil being stockpiled for the first shipment." Mr Finau said construction work at the new wharf in Navakasiga was almost complete. A team of government officials is expected to visit the...
“Lay off our lands” -- this was the unambiguous message delivered to the central government by the tribals in the Agency area of Visakhapatnam recently. The entire Agency area observed a 48-hour total bandh on December 20 and 21 opposing the visit of the central team of union environment and forests ministry to the proposed bauxite mining area. The bandh call was given by the CPI(M) while other opposition parties expressed solidarity to the call. The bandh was so complete and successful that not even bicycles moved in the area. Trees were felled to block the roads in many areas to prevent the team from visiting the area. On the first day of the visit of the central team, the CPI(M) laid siege to the hotel in Visakhapatnam in which the team was put up. They could not undertake their visit...
WORK at the bauxite mine site at Nawailevu in Bua has started. A team from the Commissioner Northern's office visited the site on Tuesday to inspect the progress of the mining work. Divisional planning officer northern Alipate Bolalevu said construction work was progressing well. "The mining started on Tuesday this week and about 80 villagers from Bua have been recruited," he said. "Apart from the professional workers, the company has recruited about 80 villagers who are designated as security guards and drivers." Mr Bolalevu said that even though the first shipment has yet to be exported, "we are glad the company has taken the first step to begin with the mining works". "So far, about 15 trucks have already off-loaded the bauxite near the jetty," he said. "All the mined bauxite has been...
Police and district officials are worried about local tribals in the Vizag Agency, ahead of the proposed three day visit of first time legislators to the Vizag agency tracts. A total of 136 MLAs elected for the first time are scheduled to visit Araku and Ananthagiri Agency mandals between January 9 and 11 to study issues related to tribals, their development, living standards, environment, forest products and also mining. Local tribals who are against the Centre’s initiative for bauxite mining vehemently oppose this visit. They see a larger conspiracy behind the visit and have vowed not to allow them to enter their tracts. A high level team appointed by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to study bauxite mining effects in Agency areas was forced to do a aerial survey instead...
The one million tonne per annum capacity refinery at Lanjigarh, some 600 km from here, has been running at about 50 percent of its capacity since it was commissioned in August 2007. There are multiple reasons for this, Kumar said. "Several mines in Orissa and Andhra Pradesh have stopped operations and supply has come down from some states due to the Maoist problem. Some states have banned sending bauxite out." The company had initially planned to mine bauxite from the nearby Niyamgiri hills but is yet to get the final nod from the government. It is currently sourcing bauxite from other states at market rates to keep the plant running. "It is a disturbing situation," Kumar said, adding that the refinery did not have enough stock of bauxite to run the plant for four to five hours. What has...
A new reserve of about 300,000 tonnes of bauxite ore has been found in Chhattisgarh's Maoist stronghold of Bastar, mining officials said Wednesday. "We found about 300,000 tonnes of bauxite reserves spread in an area of 20 hectares at village Kudarwahi in Keshkal area in Bastar district," an official of the government-owned Chhattisgarh Mining Development Corporation (CMDC) told IANS. "It's a high-quality reserve and CMDC intends to open up the mine for excavation within three-four months." But he said it would be difficult to run mining activities in the area due to growing Maoist dominance. Chhattisgarh has known deposits of bauxites in Surguja and Kawardha districts where the Vedanta Resources Plc-controlled Bharat Aluminium Company Ltd (Balco) is excavating ore to feed its Korba-based...
Guinea’s mines ministry issued a call for consultants for its plan to establish a market price for sales of bauxite, according to a tender published on Guineenews.org. The West African nation wants to set a “selling price of bauxite applicable to companies in Guinea,” the Conakry-based ministry said in the notice. The policy is in line with the country’s new mining code, according to the notice.
Mining company First Bauxite Corporation has signed a Letter of Intent with an unidentified company which could see the miner supplying bauxite to that company when it starts producing around 2014. In a statement last week, First Bauxite announced that it has “signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to enter into its first Sintered Bauxite Supply Off-Take Agreement with a global refractory products manufacturer.” The LOI commits both companies to conclude a multi-year Off-Take Agreement within six months from the date of signing based on terms which have been set out in the LOI. The LOI reflects the recognition by the customer that First Bauxite is in the process of securing “Bankable” Off-Take Agreements to underpin the debt component of its project financing plan, the statement said.
MORE than four months after being blamed for the fish kill at the Rio Cobre in July, the West Indies Alumina Company (Windalco) has refused to reveal the status of their internal investigations into the incident. "We are aware of the concerns surrounding the Rio Cobre Watershed and its aquatic life. We wish to assure the public that all measures are being taken to safeguard their welfare and address any issue which may be related to the operation of the Ewarton Works Effluent Holding Pond," the company said in an August 5 statement to the media, signed by managing director Leonid Stavitsy. "In keeping with existing policies, we have launched an internal investigation into the matter and will present our findings to the regulatory authorities." However, when contacted last week, the...
Vedanta Resources and Vishakhapattanam-based AnRak Aluminium limited will source 3 lakh tonnes bauxite from Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation's Gadhshisha mines in Kutch district. Both these companies bid highest for GMDC's bauxite. GMDC, majorly owned by the Gujarat government had, earlier, supplied 5 lakh tonne of bauxite to Vedanta. Vedanta is listed on London Stock Exchange (LSE), while GMDC is listed on Bombay Stock Exchange ( BSE). AnRak Aluminium limited is a joint venture between Andhra Pradesh-based Penna group of industries and Ras Al Khaimah Investment Authority. GMDC invited a bid for six lakh tonnes this time and will deliver 3 lakh tonnes each to both the bidders. Both the companies have to lift this stocks by March 2012 as per the terms. The corporation will generate...
The all-powerful mining lobby is upping the ante to lift the moratorium on allowing AP Mineral Development Corporation to dig bauxite ore and supply it to Jindal South West Aluminium Ltd and Anrak Aluminium Ltd. Sources told The Hindu that the mining lobby intensified efforts to revoke the suspension after the then Union Mines Minister B.K. Handique declared that all clearances given for bauxite mining in the scheduled areas of Visakhapatnam would be kept in abeyance pending detailed evaluation by experts on the impact of mining on flora and fauna of Eastern Ghats and livelihood of the tribals. The Kala Committee was deputed to Vizag as part of fact-finding mission to find out whether forest clearance could be accorded. The overwhelming opposition to the committee's visit clearly typified...
Despite facing stiff opposition from local tribals on mining bauxite reserves in the Agency area, Anrak Alumina Company is believed to be going ahead with pre-commissioning of the plant in the next six months. The refinery at Rachapalle in Makavarapupalem mandal near Narsipatnam is almost ready and its operations would begin in March 2012. Sources said the company is going ahead with its plans to meet raw material requirement by importing bauxite ore from Indonesia till it gets all clearances. Sources said since the clearances from the environment and forest ministry could take a longer time, the company has made plans to import bauxite ore what with the plant already in place.
Telugu Desam Party (TDP) has urged governor ESL Narasimhan to use his office and see that the government cancel the bauxite mining leases given to private firms in Visakhapatnam Agency area. A TDP delegation led by opposition leader in the Legislative Council Dadi Veerabhadra Rao submitted a memorandum to governor to this effect on Saturday. In its fourpage memorandum to the governor which was signed by TDP president N Chandrababu Naidu, the TDP leaders stated that the bauxite mining in Visakhapatnam Agency area was in violation of provisions of the Forest Rights Act and Samata judgment. The mining lease would have adverse impact on the environment and render lakhs of tribals jobless in their native places, the memo stated. It also urged the governor to order a CBI probe into the mining...
Raipur : Several families belonging to the poverty-hit Baiga tribe in Chhattisgarh were hit by bauxite mining operations of aluminium major Bharat Aluminium Company Ltd (Balco), Chief Minister Raman Singh said Thursday. "In Kabirdham district, Baiga tribes were displaced by Balco's bauxite mining activities but the government has properly rehabilitated at least seven such tribal families," Singh said in a written reply in the house. He said the Korba town-based Balco mines bauxite in Kabirdham district to send to its Orissa-based alumina plant and then brings the alumina back to Korba for aluminium production. In reply to another question, Labour Minister Chandrasekhar Sahu informed the house in a written reply that 44 workers were killed in Raigarh district at various plants between...
First Bauxite Corporation CA:FBX -7.14% (frankfurt:FBI)(berlin:FBI) ("First Bauxite" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has signed a Letter of Intent ("LOI") to enter into its first Sintered Bauxite Supply Off-Take Agreement ("Off-Take Agreement") with a global refractory products manufacturer (the "Customer"). The LOI commits both the Company and the Customer to conclude a multi-year Off-Take Agreement within six months from the date of signing based on terms which have been set out in the LOI. The LOI reflects the recognition by the Customer that FBX is in the process of securing "Bankable" Off-Take Agreements to underpin the debt component of its project financing plan. "The Customer is a leading producer of shaped and monolithic refractories and a significant purchaser...
