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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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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
