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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The demand by oil and natural gas drillers for tiny ceramic particles led to an announcement Wednesday that a company plans to spend $100 million on a new factory in Saline County and to hire 140 new workers. Saint-Gobain Corp. already makes the material at a plant in Fort Smith but needs a new...
Guinea is in advanced talks with state-owned China Power Investment to develop a bauxite mine,deep water port and a power plant in the West African state, Guinean government sources said. One source, who asked not to be named, said the project, which is in Boffa, some 120 km (75 miles) west of the...
Alumina Limited (ADR) (NYSE:AWC) gained 3.50%, to close at $7.40 and its overall traded volume was 165,267.00 shares in the last trading session. AWC shares were trading within the range of $6.95-$7.45 while its opening price was $7.07. The stock has a 52 week low of $5.71 and 52 week high of...
The Directorate for Roads of Vietnam under the Ministry of Transport has submitted to the Government a plan for upgrading the alumina transport route at an estimated cost of about VND1.6 trillion, or some US$770 million. The bauxite route, linking the alumina factory Tan Rai in Lam Dong Province...
BHP Billiton posted a record US$24bn profit and it forecast strong demand for its commodities. The world's largest miner by market value delivered a net profit result of US$23.64bn – up 85.9% from the year before. BHP said it expected robust demand for commodities in the short and medium term, but...
Guinea, the world’s biggest exporter of bauxite, said a 5 percent increase in production of the metal, as well as a rise in output of other commodities, helped the West African nation post a first-half budget surplus. Bauxite production rose to 8.2 million metric tons from 7.8 million tons.The...
A group of Lindeners are calling for relief from a dust situation caused by the Bosai bauxite plant in the once-thriving mining town. Several residents, including Regional Councillor Judith Rogers, were present at the AFC’s weekly news conference on Wednesday in Georgetown. “The matter was raised...
According to the current research of Bauxite resource utilization, Chongqing bauxite conservation amounts to 0.113 billion ton which provides resource guarantee for its aluminum industry base construction. From 2007 to August of 2010, Ministry of Land and Resource proceeds with an overall...
China will appeal a World Trade Organization finding last month that its export controls over raw materials including coke, zinc and magnesium violate global rules, the Ministry of Commerce said. “We still feel the country’s policies on exports of raw materials don’t violate the rules of the WTO,”...
The Supreme Court on Tuesday posted for January 2012 final hearing on an application and related petitions from the Orissa Mining Corporation challenging a July 11 order withdrawing environmental clearance for a bauxite project. A Bench of justices R.V. Raveendran and A.K. Patnaik posted the matter...
The Supreme Court today refused to accord an early hearing to Orissa government's plea challenging the Centre's decision to withdraw environmental clearance given to Vedanta group firm Sterlite for its bauxite mining project in Niyamgiri Hills. Brushing aside the state government's plea for an...
China Power Investment Corp. will spend $6 billion to develop bauxite refineries at Boffa in Guinea, according to a statement from the president's office. The Beijing-based energy company will also build a port to remove ore from the area, President Alpha Conde's office said in the statement,...
Perth-based bauxite explorer and developer, Bauxite Resources Ltd (ASX:BAU) ("BRL" or "The Company") is pleased to announce an update to the bauxite resource base in the North Darling Range area. Resource modelling has been completed on recent drilling undertaken on the Cardea prospect that has...
With Orissa Mining Corporation Limited (OMCL) claiming that the rejection of forest clearance to its bauxite mining project at Niyamgiri hills is aimed as a rebuff to the Supreme Court’s green signal for the billion-dollar venture, the Ministry of Environment and Forests met the charge head-on. In...
Bauxite extraction reached 2.689 million tonnes. Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation is engaged in mining and processing chrome, manganese and iron ore, smelting ferroalloys, processing bauxite for the production of alumina and aluminium.
MINING giant Rio Tinto Alcan is assessing sites for a recruitment and training centre in Cairns for its $1 billion-plus Weipa bauxite expansion project. Rio Tinto Alcan Weipa operations general manager Jo-Anne Scarini said the company wanted Cairns to share in the economic benefits the project...
Mr Gan Yong assistant dean at the Chinese Academy of Engineering and chairman of the Chinese Society of Rare Earths said that China has been accused of protectionism in its rare earth policy in a lawsuit jointly submitted to the World Trade Organization by the US and Mexico. The WTO ruled that...
RECRUITMENT of locals to work at the bauxite site in Nawailevu Village in Bua has begun, confirmed Commissioner Northern Lieutenant Colonel Ilai Moceica. The recruitment, he said, began with those in the security department and allowed people around Vanua Levu to grab this opportunity.
