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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LAND-clearing and road construction works at the bauxite mining site at Nawailevu in Bua are progressing well, says Aurum Exploration (Fiji) Limited manager Sang Lei. Mr Lei said the company was focused on completing the road to the proposed site. So far, the contractor hired by Aurum Exploration...
The million dollar Bauxite mining operation in Bua has been further delayed. This report from our Reporter Tokasa Rainima who is in Bua. There is an audio file attached to this story. Please login to listen. This is the third delay that the owners Aurum Mining Limited are facing, the first being...
Anil Agarwal-controlled Vedanta Resources is likely to hire Sushil Kumar Roongta, former chairman of Steel Authority of India , as head of aluminium business , sources with knowledge of the development said. Roongta is expected to oversee aluminium operations at Balco, Malco, and Vedanta Aluminium...
Sydney, May 27, 2011 (ABN Newswire) - Australian Bauxite Limited (ASX:ABZ) release the following Chairman's Address to 2011 Annual General Meeting. On behalf of your Directors I am pleased to present the annual report of Australian Bauxite Limited for the twelve months ended 31 December 2010. I...
FOUR decades after bauxite mining began on the Gove peninsula, traditional owners have finally secured a benefits package worth more than $700 million over 42 years that is focused on education, jobs and business development. The money will be paid into a future fund to secure the long-term...
Queensland's Wild Rivers laws could thwart plans for a large-scale bauxite mine on Cape York for a second time. Cape Alumina was last year forced to abandon its Pisolite Hills project when the state government made a Wild Rivers declaration over the Wenlock River basin. The declaration banned...
Ms Lurlene Nestor, in a letter published in the May 20 edition of Kaieteur News (KN), asks, ‘What about the bauxite workers, Mr President?’ Let Prime Minister put straight the facts! This PPP/C Government has been treating bauxite workers and sugar workers equitably! Yes, the government recently...
CRU's World Aluminium Conference provides a complete assessment of the aluminium supply chain, with unrivalled global analysis and networking. There is a great deal of positive sentiment in the aluminium industry at the moment. Demand performance in 2010 and growth projections for 2011 and 2012 are...
Workers at the state-run bauxite and aluminium company Bauxilum in Ciudad Guayana, peacefully recovered the main access doors at the plant after it was violently and illegally closed by a right-wing union last Thursday. Bauxilum workers accompanied by other employees from Ferrominera del Orinoco,...
Last Wednesday, India Real Time wrote that villagers in Lanjigarh in the eastern state of Orissa were complaining that toxic waste was leaking from a pond belonging to Vedanta Aluminium Ltd.’s local alumina refinery into a nearby river. The company, a unit of London-listed Vedanta Resources PLC,...
A PROPOSED bauxite mine and port near Weipa are firming up as the beacons of hope for the Far North's struggling economy. Cape Alumina acting chief executive officer Neville Conway has spent two days in Cairns briefing business and community leaders as well as company shareholders on the promising...
Only 10-15 overseas workers will be allowed to work at the bauxite mine in Bua. Human Resources Manager of Aurum Exploration Fiji Limited Basilio Vanuaca said if only there are specialized jobs that locals cannot do then they will look to hire more Chinese workers. Vanuaca said if these specialists...
KEITH Jessen (pictured) is among the farmers pledging to lock out the bauxite mining explorers currently rummaging through the South Burnett. The cattle and grain grower is no stranger to a fight. Formally involved in agri-politics, especially the Grain Growers Association, he said he has taken on...
The Guyana Bauxite & General Workers’ Union (GB&GWU) says it has accepted an invitation from the Ministry of Labour to attend a meeting today at which the union expects to address matters of import. The GB&GWU has indicated that its concerns at this meeting will be “upholding the sovereignty of...
Semafo Inc. (SMF), a Canadian gold producer that mines in West Africa, plans to build a hydroelectric power plant in Guinea, said Mody Oury Barry, head of the project. The $230 million, 130-megawatt plant will be constructed on the Cogon river, which is in the bauxite-rich region of Boke, Barry...
A delegation from UC Rusal has visited Cameroon with the aim of securing its supply of bauxite. As a result of the visit, RUSAL expressed its intention to undertake a feasibility study of various metals and mining projects in Cameroon, as well as the development of necessary transport...
It will be up to the three Mataqalis in Bua on how they use the $700,000 given by the Chinese company, Aurum Exploration Limited for bauxite mining in the area. Member of the three Mataqalis board of trustee and Commissioner Northern Inia Seruiratu said they have met but nothing has been planned to...
More than $700,000 will soon be pumped into three Mataqali in Bua. This is with regards to the new Bauxite mine in Nawailevu in Bua which is set to get underway later this year. The three landowning units - Naicobo, Noro and Nalutu will then be paid $18,000 every year for the next 20 years. Legal...
