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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Vietnam will produce the first alumina from a bauxite complex in the Central Highlands in September after months of delays caused by adverse weather, power shortages and slow equipment delivery, the official Vietnam News Agency reported. The country's first alumina plant in Lam Dong province is now...
The climate of greater stability recently felt in guinea Bissau has given a new lease of life to the projects for the port of Buba and the Boé bauxite mine, promoted by Angolan investors, according to the Africa Monitor newsletter. As well as greater political and social stability, resulting from...
Rio Tinto Alcan welcomes the Queensland Government's release of the Environmental Impact Statement for a bauxite mining project that will underpin the long term future of its Weipa operations in Cape York Peninsula. The South of Embley project will see Rio Tinto Alcan extend bauxite mining on an...
Recently, the survey summary of Henan bauxite resource utilization status was passed the expert evaluation and gets a good grade. For the preparation of The Acceptance Review Regulations of National Resources Utilization Status Summary Survey and to make sure the feasibility of the summary surveys...
Saudi Arabian Mining Co. (Ma’aden) said Sunday its profit doubled in the second quarter. Ma’aden made a net profit of SR62.5 million ($16.7 million) in the three months to end-June, compared to SR31.2 million in the same period a year earlier. Analysts surveyed by Reuters expected the firm to post,...
The preliminary snapshot of the June trade figures doesn't include bauxite imports but they recorded consecutive fresh all time highs above 4 million tonnes in both April and May. Cumulative January to May imports of 17.3 million tonnes were up by 56% YoY. In other words, China is swapping one...
Platts alumina price benchmark closed Thursday at $378.50/mt FOB Australia, dropping $1.50/mt on Wednesday from unplaced cargoes. A consumer reported receiving an unsolicited offer at below $380/mt FOB Australia, for shipment in the second-half of August, for which it was likely to turn away. A...
Bauxite Resources Limited (ASX:BAU) wishes to advise the appointment of alternate director, Mr Zhan Qingwei (as alternate for Mr Yan Jitai). Mr Zhan Qingwei is the General Manager of Yankuang Resources Pty Ltd, the Perth based company which holds the interests in the Bauxite Resource and Alumina...
AUSTRALIA'S summer drenching continues to affect Rio Tinto, which has cut full-year coal, bauxite, alumina and iron ore production guidance as its mines gradually return to full capacity. While the downgrades are not huge, they show that the heavy rains caused more problems than were predicted as...
Newly-appointed tribal affairs minister V Kishore Chandra Deo on Thursday gave a boost to anti-mining activism by vetoing the Posco project in Orissa and also said that bauxite mining cannot be allowed just because the mineral deposits are under the houses of poor tribals. Deo, who as Congress MP...
Diversified mining group Rio Tinto’s Australian operations have largely recovered from the floods, which hampered production earlier this year, with the miner on Thursday reporting higher second-quarter iron-ore and coal output. “Operations largely recovered from the severe weather impacts earlier...
Just about a year after his open support for the Dongaria Kondh tribals in Niyamgiri who are protesting the mining of bauxite by Vedanta Alumina, Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday lent his support to the people facing displacement by the 12 million tonne Posco project in Orissa’s...
Rio Tinto,in its second-quarter 2011 operations review, reported global iron ore production of 49 million tonnes attributable for the period, which was up 12 percent compared with last year. The company also noted that Mined coppee production was down 24 percent on the 2010 second quarter, mainly...
Guizhou Province is one of the three largest bauxite-rich region of china. This province’s largest bauxite mining and aluminum coal internation project has officially launched recently. It will become the largest modern aluminum industry base in southwest China after been completed. Information...
Sealing the fate of Vedanta's bauxite mining project in Niyamgiri hills of Orissa, Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh cancelled the environmental clearance as well on Monday. He had rejected the forest clearance in an order in August 2010. Ramesh's decision came after TOI had reported that...
Treasurer and Minister for State Development and Trade Andrew Fraser has invited people to have their say on the environmental impact statement (EIS) for the South of the Embley bauxite project in Weipa. Mr Fraser said project proponent RTA Weipa Pty Ltd ( RTA ) has plans to expand its mining...
The crime branch of Goa Police Monday issued fresh summons to a leader of the ruling Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) in connection with a multi-crore bauxite mining scandal, officials said. The summons follows a first information report (FIR) filed by the crime branch in May on the direction of a...
Orissa government today decided to ask the Nalco to spend at least Rs 10 crore per annum towards periphery development activities in order to avail the bauxite reserve at Potangi in Koraput district, official sources said. "We have decided to recommend Nalco's name for the bauxite mines at Potangi....
