
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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Mr Oleg Deripaska's Rusal, the world's biggest aluminum producer, has given Rio Tinto food for thought on the future mix of bauxite supplies to their Queensland Alumina Limited JV at Gladstone in Queensland. Rusal has thrown up the potential for Fiji to become a new source of bauxite to cover its...

Bloomberg reported that Dubai Aluminum Company is seeking to mine bauxite in Guinea in partnership with BHP Billiton Limited as well as sourcing the raw material from Cameroon and India. Mr Sultan Al Sabri GM of marketing and sales said that “One of our projects is in Guinea together with BHP...

Bhubaneswar: Vedanta Aluminium Limited, a subsidiary of London stock exchange listed Vedanta Resources Plc, created a new national record at Kandla Port in bauxite loading. The company achieved this feat along with the handling agent SVCT Pvt. Ltd. The new record was created when 36400 MT bauxite...

Dubai Aluminium Co., the developer of the world’s largest smelter of the metal, is seeking to mine bauxite in Guinea in partnership with BHP Billiton Ltd., as well as sourcing the raw material from Cameroon and India. “One of our projects is in Guinea together with BHP Billiton,” Sultan Al Sabri,...

Bauxite Resources (ASX: BAU) has received a $9 million reimbursement from joint venture partner Yankuang Group Corporation in accordance with bauxite refinery and bauxite resource agreements signed in January this year. The payment to Bauxite Resources covers three separate reimbursable amounts due...

Dubai Aluminium Co., the developer of the world’s largest smelter of the metal, is seeking to mine bauxite in Guinea in partnership with BHP Billiton Ltd., as well as sourcing the raw material from Cameroon and India. “One of our projects is in Guinea together with BHP Billiton,” Sultan Al Sabri,...

Less than eight months after putting a blanket ban on a capacity expansion programme by Vedanta Aluminum at Lanjigarh in Orissa, the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has cleared antipollution measures taken by the metals major. A team comprising officials from the ministry and the Orissa...

Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL), a unit of Anil Agarwal-led Vedanta Resources PLC, will invest about Rs 10,000 crore to complete its aluminium smelter and independent power plants at Jharsuguda. The company has so far invested around Rs 40,000-crore in its Lanjigarh and Jharsuguda projects in Orissa....

Nigeria and Guinea are exploring prospects for an agreement to promote a joint investment drive for the development of key sectors in their economies. At a meeting between Guinean president, Alpha Conde, and the managing director, Nigeria Export-Import Bank (NEXIM), Roberts Orya, discussions...

In an Australian first, Prime Minister Julia Gillard has signed a lease agreement between a mining company and traditional land owners. Despite claims yesterday from some Aboriginal residents in the area that they had not been consulted on the lease and would be boycotting the ceremonial signing,...

Orissa Diary reported that loud slogans to care environment and to plant trees were heard from hundreds of school children and local leaders of Lanjigarh periphery area who participated in a Green March organized by Vedanta Aluminum Limited, Lanjigarh to mark the World Environment Day 2011. Dr...

Controversial mining firm Vedanta has created a new global comms leadership role, as it bids to rehabilitate a reputation that has been dogged by numerous environmental and human rights allegations. The company, founded in India but now headquartered and listed in London, has poached Senjam Raj...

Work on the removal of pine logs at the bauxite mining site in Bua is expected to get underway soon. This is after Fijivillage while on a trip to the North noted that while tenders were called for the removal of the logs in April, nothing had been done. Tropik Woods of Fiji Executive Chairman, Faiz...

Primary aluminum producer Ormet Corp. has its eyes set on growth, with a push into bauxite mining or the purchase of competitors’ aging assets emerging as two possibilities on its radar, the company’s top executive told AMM. Primary aluminum producer Ormet Corp. has its eyes set on growth, with a...

Australian Bauxite Limited (ASX:ABZ) Chief Executive Officer, Ian Levy, discusses the progress of Australian Bauxite with Finance News Network. Lelde Smits: Hello Lelde Smits reporting for the Finance News Network. Joining me today from Australian Bauxite is CEO, Ian Levy. Ian, welcome to FNN....

Mining, dispatch and transportation of bauxite from Pakhar mines in the Naxalite-hit Kisko police station area of Lohardaga district have come to a grinding halt since Wednesday evening after a group of rebels torched six vehicles. “Mining and transportation activities have been put on a halt since...

To start with one for bauxite in Kutch. State-run Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation (GMDC) is looking to add value to its mineral products with private partnerships. It sells raw bauxite and plans to set up a project for value addition in bauxite products at Kutch. There is a huge market for...

Bauxite Resources Limited (ASX:BAU) wishes to advise the appointment of two alternate directors, Mr Kevin Ernest Judge (as alternate for Mr Luke Atkins) and Mr Chenghai Yang (as alternate for Mr Ding Feng). Mr Judge is the founding and senior partner of Judge Constable, a Chartered Accounting...