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’s producer-price inflation rate fell for the first month in October as mining and quarrying costs decreased. Inflation eased to 16.8 percent from 19.6 percent a month earlier, Grace Bediako, head of the Ghana Statistical Service, told reporters in Accra, the capital, today. Prices fell 0.9...
The promise for jobs continues to be made at the PPP/C rallies and meetings in Linden and according to Campaign Manager for Linden, Andrew Forsythe,in the next five years the PPP/C can assure residents of over a thousand jobs in various sectors. He said that there will be major expansion in the...
Australia's planned mining tax, passed by the lower house of parliament in the early hours of Wednesday, will not apply to bauxite, although authorities had earlier intended to include the aluminum ore, Australian Aluminium Council spokesman Miles Prosser said Wednesday. Having passed the lower...
Leaders of government usually set the tone for the nation, among which integrity is established and respect is maintained, based on the things they say and do. When Guyana Prime Minister Hinds told this nation at a Buxton political meeting that the government treats bauxite and sugar workers...
First Bauxite Corporation is pleased to announce that the NI 43-101 Technical Report - Bankable Feasibility Study Update for its Bauxite Project in Guyana, South America, prepared by the independent engineering firm, Met-Chem Canada Inc., has been filed on SEDAR at www.sedar.com and can also be...
Government plans to sell its seven per cent stake in West Indies Alumina Company (Windalco), which includes operations at Ewarton and Kirkvine, according to Philip Baker, a top economist at the Jamaica Bauxite Institute (JBI). Valuators are currently tabulating the net worth of the assets. The...
National Aluminium Company (Nalco), the Orissa-headquartered and central government-owned company, has turned out to be the sole final bidder for Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation’s (GMDC) Rs 15,000-crore aluminium project in Kutch,Gujarat. V S Gadhvi, managing director of GMDC, which is...
Alcoa (NYSE: AA - News) has been recognized as one of 21 model companies in Sustainability in Brazil by Exame, a well-known Brazilian business magazine, which publishes the country’s prestigious annual survey on corporate social responsibility. This is the sixth time Alcoa was recognized for its...
Yet another instance in which the state government gets a pittance while the private promoters a lion's share of the revenue has come to light. The YSR government had entered into two separate memorandums of understanding (MoUs) in 2007 with the government of Ras al Khaimah (an emirate forming part...
Bloomberg reported that Minmetals Resources Limited, backed by China's biggest metals trader, is transforming companies from Mirabela Nickel Limited to Alumina Limited into takeover targets as it eyes a total of USD 7 billion of deals including bauxite and alumina deals. Mirabela, which controls...
Xiao Jiangang, the director of Department of Land and Resources of Guangxi figured out there were more than 0.7 billion tons of proven bauxite in Guangxi.With other regions still in the process of being investigated,the reserves will reach over 1 billion tons. It is learned that bauxite in Guangxi...
Aluminum maker Alcoa is shuffling some executives in its Global Primary Products business and its Investor Relations function with all the moves effective Dec. 1. William Oplinger was named chief operating officer of Global Primary Products where he will oversee the company’s bauxite mining,...
Recently listed Aziana is making solid progress at the Manantenina Bauxite Project in Madagascar where seven teams are undergoing exploration, just four months since commencing its IPO. Early work from the Manantenina Bauxite Project, which includes over 3,000 samples from 459 test pits, has...
The Fiji interim government says its first exports of bauxite will be ready by January or February next year. The mineral is being exported to China. The mine at Nawailevu in Vanua Levu was opened a week ago by the interim prime minister, Commodore Frank Bainimarama.He told guests the mine was a...
It is estimated that the value of sites of metals on Kosovo overcomes the amount of $1.000 billion. Corporate experts for raw metals and minerals have announced in the end of 2008 the estimated reports of reserves: The mine "Grebnik" south from Glina, has for a fact 1.700.000 tons of bauxite...
While serious efforts are being made to push through the bauxite mining project in the Visakha Agency, Union minister for rural development Jairam Ramesh said he was against bauxite mining. Ramesh said he was against not only bauxite, but any mining that leads to destruction of natural habitat and...
In Jamaica,The National Workers Union (NWU) has written to Mining Minister Clive Mullings requesting an update on future plans for the bauxite/alumina sector. The union, which represented workers who were displaced following the closure of mining plants at the height of the global financial crisis,...
Mubadala Development Company,Abu Dhabi’s strategic investment and development firm, will explore opportunities in sectors such as bauxite,and alumina in the Republic of Guinea. The move follows the signing of collaborative agreements between the government of Republic of Guinea and Mubadala. These...
