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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Ghana is making a strategy to deal with illegal mining and logging which poses a grave environmental, health and security risk to the country, Minister of Lands and Natural Resources Mike Allen Hammah said here on Wednesday. Speaking at a workshop to develop a framework for artisanal and...
Metal tycoon Anil Agarwal committed to invest about Rs 60,000 crore for building Vedanta Aluminum - the aim was for a 2.4 mt plant which is almost equal to the total aluminum consumed in India. But a ban on bauxite mining and government denial to expand its alumina refinery, have upset Vedanta's...
Bauxite production in Guinea, the world’s biggest exporter of the ore, increased 5 percent to 12.7 million metric tons in the first nine months of 2011. This was said in a statement handed to reporters today in Conakry, the capital by the Finance Ministry.
The Gujarat Government is likely to take a call in the next two months on whether GMDC should form a joint venture with Nalco or sign a long-term non-plant grade bauxite supply agreement with the Navratna behemoth for the proposed manufacturing facility in Kutch district. “The expressions of...
China's Erdos Hongjun planned to build a bauxite processing plant in Kratie province as part of the company’s US$1.5 billion venture in the Kingdom’s northeast, provincial officials said yesterday. The plant would serve Erdos’s mine in neighbouring Mondulkiri, an exploration licence for which was...
First Bauxite Corporation is pleased to announce that it has signed a bilateral mineral agreement between the Government of Guyana and the Company and its local operating subsidiary, Guyana Industrial Minerals Inc., for the operation of the Bonasika Bauxite Project in Guyana, South America. The...
Cape Alumina Limited (Cape Alumina or Company) is pleased to advise that it will be undertaking a Share Purchase Plan (SPP) to raise up to $2,340,000. One important objective of this capital raising is to allow smaller shareholders the opportunity to increase their investment in the Company at an...
Rioe Tinto Alcan, once it has divested the 13 assets it put up for sale in October, will occupy the “best bauxite position in the industry”, ceo Jacynthe Côté said at Rio’s investor seminar in Sydney on Monday. The 13 assets include aluminium smelters in Australia, New Zealand, the USA and Europe,...
Citing impediments on the way of the firm's progress,Mines Minister Dinsha Patel said Utkal E block with 67.4 million tonnes reserves alloted by the Coal Ministry in 2004 could not be developed so far for want of land acquisition by state government. Also, investment to tune of Rs 6,500 crore for...
Cape Alumina’s (ASX: CBX) exploration results have unveiled a maiden JORC Inferred Resource of 28.3 Million tonnes of in-situ, high-quality, export-grade bauxite at its Bauxite Hills’ BH1 area. This represents a major milestone for the Bauxite Hills mine and port project as Cape Alumina continues...
The proposal to allow bauxite mining in the eastern ghats of Visakhapatnam district has been shelved for good and there need not be any apprehensions on the count, asserted Mr Kishore Chandra Deo, Union Minister for Tribal Welfare, here on Sunday. He made the assertion at a press meet here on...
Tribal people and non-government organisations in the district are apprehensive that the bauxite mining project will be cleared by the environment and forests without a proper study on the impact in Anantagiri and Araku mandals in the Agency areas of Visakhapatnam district.Tribal Cultural Research...
UC RUSAL,the world's largest aluminium producer, is pleased to report on its senior management teams' recent official visit to the Republic of Sierra Leone, to explore new business development opportunities within the country. During the visit, the delegation discussed the possibility of the...
A Canadian company has signed an agreement with Guyana to mine bauxite in a western region of the country. Prime Minister Samuel Hinds says the First Bauxite Corporation of Vancouver expects to mine more than 12 million tons (11 million metric tons) of refractory bauxite in unexplored deposits in...
The Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Maaden) announced Sunday that its subsidiary, Maaden Bauxite and Alumina Company, has signed a $1 billion (SR3.75 billion) financing agreement with the Public Investment Fund (PIF) for the second phase of its aluminum project. The second phase, which includes a...
Cape Alumina (ASX: CBX) has been granted a trading halt by the ASX pending the release of a proposed capital raising and the finalisation of a resource statement, with the company's shares placed in pre-open. Cape Alumina has not yet indicated where the funding injection will be allocated or the...
Intercept Minerals (ASX: IZM) has agreed the principal terms for a farm-in agreement with Rio Tinto (ASX: RIO) over Intercept’s Tiwi Islands bauxite project. Intercept has an exploration licence covering 1,431 square kilometres of land under application in northeast region of Melville Island,...
Rio Tinto today received Canadian Competition Bureau clearance for its offer, made through an indirect wholly-owned Canadian subsidiary, to acquire all the common shares of Hathor Exploration Limited ("Hathor") for C$4.70 in cash per common share. The Commissioner of Competition issued a "no action...
