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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Not with standing strong protests from tribals and a 48-hour bandh in the Agency area, the Central government is likely to give the nod to bauxite mining in the forests of Chintapalle and Ananthagiri in Visakhapatnam district. At least, that was the indication one would get at the end of the public interaction here on Thursday by the fourmember expert committee appointed by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) to study the implication of the proposed bauxite mining. Meanwhile, the expert committee is contemplating to make a secret visit to the tribal hamlets before submitting their report. While the expert committee only appeared to favour bauxite mining, highly placed sources revealed that the Union government has already taken a decision to permit excavation of bauxite...
Bauxite Resources Ltd (ASX: BAU) ("BRL" or "the Company”) is pleased to announce that it has been granted a further thirteen (13) exploration licences. The new exploration licences are all in the Darling Range and will form part of the Company’s suite of tenements that are the cornerstone of the Joint Venture Agreements entered into with Yankuang Group Corporation. The Joint Venture Agreements recently signed with Yankuang reflect the long term strategy of the Company to commercialise its extensive tenement holdings in the Darling Range and the granting of these tenements is an important progression in those plans. The Company now has a total of 28 granted Exploration Licences in the Darling Range with a further 76 pending/under application. Attached is a map showing Darling Range...
Guinea will review mining contracts and cut the size of the armed forces during 2012, President Alpha Conde said in a speech outlining his priorities for his second year in office. The moves are aimed at boosting the West African state's economy and cementing its fragile stability, but if done poorly could backfire by angering international investors as well as the country's unruly soldiers. Guinea is the world's largest supplier of the aluminum ore bauxite and has vast deposits of iron ore that have drawn billions of dollars in planned investment, but it is struggling to emerge from decades of political turmoil. "The new projects that lie ahead focus on three priorities: strengthen national unity, improve the daily lives of Guineans, and transform the economy," Conde said in an address...
Despite people's opposition and agency bandh, the high-powered committee of the Union ministry of environment and forests on bauxite mining conducted an aerial survey of Jerrela and surrounding areas on Wednesday. The district administration had tried to keep the committee's visit a secret by not divulging its schedule. However, the committee took a chopper from the Vizag airport for the survey. The second day of the 48-hour bandh call given by all the parties in the agency was successful as all public and private transport were off the road . schools, shops and other establishments remained closed for the second consecutive day on Wednesday. Irked by the district administration's plan to deploy the chopper for the convenience of committee members, the activists of Girijana Sangham burnt...
Natural Resources Minister Jim Hok is sad about the bauxite industry’s languishing existence. ‘When this Administration came to office employment in the sector was dropping, the smelter had been closed, and in fact the bauxite industry is dying.’ Despite the dark prospects for Suralco, Hok considers it necessary that his ministry breathes new life into the industry. The American multinational celebrated its 95th birthday yesterday. Suralco seems to be at a crucial point in its existence, while there is an urge to safeguard bauxite operations in Suriname. Operations have dropped to a low level; mines are almost depleted and the government is urging for revision of the Brokopondo Agreement. ‘Our policy is not aid but trade,’ says Hok, who hopes soon there will be positive prospects for both...
The 48-hour bandh in the agency area (tribal tracts in the eastern ghats) of Visakhapatnam district against the visit of a four-member expert committee from the Ministry of Environment and Forests to the proposed bauxite mining areas, was total on Tuesday. Even bicycles were not allowed on the roads at Chintapalli. The committee, sent with the mandate to examine the pros and cons of bauxite mining, had to stay back in a hotel here. At the hotel also, there were protests. Trees were cut and placed across the Araku ghat road at Sivalingapuram and near Dumbriguda. A large number of people from 33 villages gathered at Jerrela to confront the committee, if it reached the spot. The committee, headed by the former Director-General of Forests, Mr J.C. Kala, is scheduled to visit Jerrela and...
Stating what it could be a startling revelation even for the members of treasury benches and ministers, a senior Congress member on Monday reportedly “exposed” the BJP-led Chhattisgarh government for allegedly selling state’s mineral wealth. Mohammed Akbar, a senior Congress legislator and former minister, lashed out and charged that the state government had ignored all establish norms in allotting mines. He added that the state government was also keeping its eyes closed while the corporate houses were illegally mining and selling Chhattisgarh’s valuable resources. Shifting his target to the Vedanta-controlled Bharat Aluminium Company Limited (Balco), Akbar said the company illegally mined about 15,000 trucks of bauxite from the Mainpat area in Sarguja district while the state...
Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation and Mumbai-based Alumina Refinery Limited will jointly take up project to manufacture speciality chemicals from Bauxite in Kutch. The state government had earlier decided to value-add the minerals instead of selling raw ores. The move is in line with the state policy and it is the third JV by the state PSU that has been approved by the state government in past three weeks. GMDC will have 26% stake in the joint venture and ARL will have the rest 74% stake in the business. Initially, Rs 10 crore will be pumped in, of which GMDC will contribute Rs 2.37 crore and ARL will contribute Rs 6.73 crore in the Rs 30-crore project. The 18,000 tonnes per annum proposed plant will produce Alumina Trihydrate (1160 tonnes per month), Activated Alumina (625 tonnes...
The Ministry of Transport has approved the first phase of National Highway 20 upgrade to transport bauxite ore from the Central Highland province of Lam Dong to southern Dong Nai Province. According to Decision 2525/QD-BGTVT, signed by Minister Dinh La Thang on November 7, the 123km road from Lam Dong Province to Go Dau Port in Dong Nai Province will be injected with over VND7.6 trillion (US$364 million) from the State budget. This part of the highway has been in use for 30 years and reported to be in need of an upgrade to better serve the bauxite mining industry. Construction will include different paths with widths of 7m, 12m, 15m and 27m depending on the locations of deltas, mountains and cities. Surfaces will accordingly have high load capacities of 1,600 kilos per square centimetre...
A large bauxite deposit was discovered in Henan Xin’an County recently. The bauxite reserve reached about 23.62 million tons with potential economic value to CNY 5 billion. The discovery of this new bauxite reserve marks that Henan province has made a breakthrough in bauxite exploration.
A parliamentary panel has expressed displeasure over delays in Nalco's expansion plans mainly due to failure to get leases for bauxite and coal mining in Odisha, and has asked the Mines Ministry to take up the matter at the highest level with the state government. Investment to tune of Rs 6,500 crore for state-run National Aluminium Company's (Nalco) third phase expansion has been put on hold due to difficulties in acquiring mining leases for Pottangi bauxite deposit in Odisha with reserves of 75 million tonne and Utkal-E coal block. "The Committee are constrained to observe that no significant progress has been made. Early development of above projects is significant in view of ongoing expansion plan of the company. The Mines Ministry should take up this matter at highest level with...
George Bennett has been appointed chief operating officer of First Bauxite Corp., which is developing the refractory grade bauxite Bonasika deposite in Guyana. An applied science graduate of Queen's University, Ontario, with a degree in engineering geology, Bennett has over 50 years involvement with the exploration, mining, production and sale of industrial minerals with specific focus on refractories.
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Up until this year, Guinea's well established bauxite industry had been on to a good thing, pumping out bauxite and alumina for the European market and planning major expansions. That picture has since changed dramatically. An overhaul of the Guinea mining code carried out with the input of legendary fund manager Mr George Soros has left the country's bauxite industry contemplating a future of razor thin margins. The expansions that were being considered now look increasingly unlikely and some appear to have been pulled altogether. The same mining code review appears to have delivered a regime that will allow for handsome profits from the Nation's rich but to date unexploited iron ore resources. But the bauxite producers smarting from the Guinean government's tax overhaul are warning the...
The Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union has highlighted several matters of importance to the newly appointed Minister of Labour, Dr. Nanda Gopaul. In a press statement, the union listed grievances it has with three bargaining units including the Bauxite company of Guyana Inc (BCGI), Oldendorff Carriers Incorporated and the state-owned Linden Electricity Company. The Bauxite and General Workers Union is requesting that urgent attention be paid to issues they deem as important to the advancement of the bauxite industry. Outstanding grievances with the three companies include refusal to form a company union, which is in violation of section 23(1) of the recognition act. Industrial accidents that resulted in deaths and injuries of workers, wages and working conditions negotiation and...
A couple of weeks after Union Minister for Tribal Welfare and Araku MP V Kishore Chandra Deo said he will have the Governor’s powers invoked if necessary to prevent bauxite mining and safeguard tribal interests, a four-member committee appointed by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) is set to visit the proposed bauxite mining areas in Chintapalle and Anantagiri mandals in the district on December 21 and 22. The committee will also hold discussions with representatives of various NGOs and government officials. Sources said the members of the committee consisting of chairman and former director- general of forests and former chairman of National Environment Appellate Authority (NEAA) JC Kala, former principal chief conservator of forests M Kamala Naidu, Tribal Cultural...
NORANDA Jamaica Bauxite Partners (NJBP) says it is on track this year to achieve the highest production ever in the history of bauxite operations in St Ann. "2011 will be our best production year, as we are on target to ship over five million metric dry tones of bauxite, representing an 18 per cent increase over 2010," NJBP President Pansy Johnson announced at the company's Long Service Awards ceremony held at the Montego Bay Convention Centre on December 3.
Workers at Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinee, which is owned by Rio Tinto Plc (RIO), Alcoa Inc. (AA) and the West African nation’s government, halted a two-day strike to hold wage talks, said union leader Sekou Oumar Ly Diallo. The protest, which has workers calling for a 50 percent pay rise, was stopped at the request of President Alpha Conde, Diallo said by phone today from Conakry, the capital. Work at the plant did not stop during the strike, said Director-General Kemoko Toure by phone.
