International Responsible Business Conduct (IRBC) has completed a project examining aluminium and bauxite supply chains to improve transparency and traceability in materials supporting the renewable energy transition. The project brought together wind energy company Siemens Gamesa, Dutch cable manufacturer TKF, Digital Product Passport (DPP) technology provider Minespider, and project partner Responsible Trade. The initiative mapped selected upstream aluminium and bauxite supply chains and tested secure DPPs to organise and present traceability and sustainability information across multiple supplier tiers. Explore the production, demand and consumption forecasts of bauxite and alumina in our report: " Global Bauxite & Alumina Market Forecast to 2036: Supply–Demand, Trade Flows & Price...
Mount Ridley Mines has reported 94.9 per cent gallium recovery from a third-party bauxite sample using its patent-pending Selectro process, alongside recoveries of 92 per cent aluminium and 97 per cent iron in a single low-temperature leach. The test also produced a silica-rich residue instead of conventional red mud, highlighting the technology’s potential to recover multiple metals from bauxite through one processing route. The sample was provided by Australian Silica Quartz Group from its Darling Range bauxite project in Western Australia. It comprised material collected from 16 vacuum drill samples across four holes at the Athena and Ceres prospects. Containing 80 parts per million of gallium, the sample yielded an extraction rate of 94.9 per cent into solution. Mount Ridley said this...
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Aluminium Bahrain B.S.C. (Alba)’s Chairman of the Board of Directors, Shaikh Daij bin Salman bin Daij Al Khalifa, said they would like to strengthen relationships with key aluminium producers in the Arab World at a meeting with the Egyptian Minister of Public Enterprises Sector, His Excellency Dr Eng. Mahmood Kamal Esmat, on May 24, 2023, in Cairo, Egypt. The meeting was graced by the presence of Alba’s Chief Executive Officer, Ali Al Baqali; the Managing Director of the Metallurgical Industries Holding Company, Eng. Mohammed Al-Saadawi; and the Chief Executive Officer of Egyptalum, Dr Mahmoud Agour. The agenda of the meeting was developing mutual cooperation and exploring potential opportunities for investment in the aluminium industry. Alba’s Chairman, Shaikh Daij Bin Salman,...
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has raised concern about the Chinese government potentially gaining access to Ghana's mineral, majorly bauxite and electricity revenues, citing Ghana's failure to meet loan terms. The IMF is a 190-member country organisation that promotes global monetary cooperation, financial stability, international trade facilitation, high employment and sustainable economic growth, and poverty reduction worldwide. Our source from Ghana quoted IMF officials saying that Ghana may need help to repay four loans it bagged from China and had secured with the sale of its energy and mineral resources. Over the last ten years, Ghana has received at least eight loans from China, with diverse natural resources used as security to reduce the risk of default. The...
The Australian-listed company with world-class bauxite and rare earth assets, Lindian Resources, has signed a supply agreement with a new cash-rich partner. The company has announced a new six-year arrangement with freight shipping firm C&D Logistics to provide 23 million wet metric tonnes of bauxite from its Gaoual plant in Guinea , West Africa. However, the supply agreement states that the two companies will negotiate annually to determine the price, quantity, product quality, payment terms, and delivery specifics over the six-year deal period, which begins in 2025. C&D Logistics' parent business, Xiamen C&D, has a healthy financial standing and is eager to hasten the construction of the Gaoual project. In the previous year, Xiamen recorded net assets of USD$23.77 billion and net...
Ghana's President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has established the Ghana Integrated Aluminium Development Corporation (GIADEC) will add value to the country's raw bauxite resources. Ghana's overdependence on exporting raw products has prevented the country from benefiting optimally from its resources. The government aims to stop exporting raw natural resources in the short to medium term. A stakeholder dialogue was organised to discuss policies to address illegal mining and logging. The President emphasised the need for fair negotiations with mining companies that do not exploit lands and people. President Akufo-Addo believes that the actual value of natural resources lies in their value addition. He cited the example of the global aluminium industry , estimated to be worth over $180...
Alcoa Corporation, the world's eighth largest aluminium producer, has appointed seasoned resource executive Matt Reed as Vice President Operations – Australia and President Alcoa Australia effective 6 th June 2023. Matt will be based in Perth and will be a key member of Alcoa's worldwide Operations Leadership Team, overseeing the experienced teams who run the company's bauxite mining and rehabilitation, alumina refining, and aluminium smelting operations in Western Australia and Victoria. Matt has over 25 years of expertise in the Australian and international mining sectors. He was most recently the Operations Executive of OZ Minerals, overseeing running assets and brownfield projects in Australia and Brazil. Bill Oplinger, Alcoa's Executive Vice President and Chief Operations Officer,...
On April 20, 2023, a Chinese industry expert advised that China, the largest aluminium producer globally, needs to enhance local bauxite mining to reduce its growing dependency on imported resources. Meng Jie, a Deputy Secretary General of the aluminium branch at the China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association (CNIA), said, "China's bauxite imports are highly concentrated in Guinea, Australia and Indonesia. We are seeing lower grades of domestic resources and the gradual decline of self-sufficiency." "Reliance on overseas resources has been on an uptrend, and we expect it to go up further." Meng's presentation reflected that China's reliance on bauxite imports grew to 55 per cent in 2022 from 2.8 per cent in 2002. Governments worldwide are concentrating on obtaining critical minerals,...
On Wednesday, April 19, Rio Tinto, a leading Anglo-Australian mining group, announced its operational results for the first quarter of 2023, revealing an 11 per cent year-on-year decline and 8 per cent month-on-month drop in bauxite output to 12.1 million tonnes. The downfall took place due to the slowdown in Weipa’s operations caused by higher than average rainfall during the annual wet season. Production was further affected by equipment downtime at both Weipa and Gove. At Weipa and Gove, bauxite mining volume was 7.49 million tonnes and 2.58 million tonnes, respectively, versus 8.527 million tonnes and 3.093 million tonnes during the corresponding period of the previous year. Rio Tinto said it maintained bauxite production guidance at 54 to 57 million tonnes to recover lost production...
Alcoa Australia is determined to transform its 60-year-old operation in the Peel region to make it more environment-friendly. So, the company has decided to conduct a full environmental review of one of its alumina refineries and ecotourism upgrades. Alcoa vice-president operations Australia, Rob Bear, told at the Peel Regional Growth and Major Project Summit in Mandur a h on Tuesday, April 4, about the company’s plans to adopt a more sustainable approach towards mining. Mr Bear said Alcoa already called on the State and Commonwealth for a full environmental review of its proposed bauxite mining areas and Pinjarra Alumina Refinery where it planned to increase production. “Those plans are currently subject to the highest level of environmental assessment — a public environmental review,...
According to Vietnam's latest geological and mineral strategy, the country is eyeing to bolster governance over the use of mineral resources and strengthen investment in mining technology while establishing a state-of-art mining sector that adheres to environmental protection. In accordance with the national strategy, Vietnam plans to explore a variety of minerals by 2045, including bauxite, among others like coal, uranium, titanium-zircon, rare earth, apatite, copper, nickel and tin while simultaneously exploiting and preserving strategic, essential, and large-scale minerals. As part of the plan approved recently by Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha, Vietnam aims to map 85 per cent of the country's geological and mineral resources by 2030. He said that Vietnam would develop technology,...
The Nalco-operated Panchpatmali bauxite mine achieved the highest-ever annual bauxite excavation rate since its inception. FY 22-23 has been reported with a figure of 75,50,670 tonnes, up from its previous benchmark of 74,14,100 tonnes in FY 18-19. Odisha's Bauxite mines are vital to NALCO's supply chain. On the Panchpatmali hills of Koraput district in Odisha, a fully mechanized opencast mine has operated since November 1985, serving feedstock to the alumina refinery at Damanjodi on the foothills. Bauxite occurs over the entire length of the Panchpatmali plateau, which spans over 18 km and covers an area of approximately 7,500 hectares. Bauxite reserves at Panchpatmali are estimated to be over 310 million tonnes, making it one of the country's largest. High-quality bauxite is available...
On March 31, 2023, Alcoa Corporation announced that its engineering crews are repairing Alumar's two-belt system that conveys raw materials from the pier. On March 25, 2023, the conveyance system—which transports bauxite, coal, coke, and pitch—broke down, blocking the offloading of supplies. The pier is undamaged and fully functional. As a result of the failure of the conveyance system, the refinery and smelter have been working on alternative delivery methods and planning repairs. Daily alumina refinery production will be reduced by approximately 25 per cent for about ten days to conserve existing bauxite inventories. The nameplate capacity of the Alumar refinery is 3,860,000 tonnes per year, of which Alcoa's combined capacity is 2,084,000 tonnes. For the smelter's raw materials,...
Winning Logistics in Guinea awarded Konecranes an order for two Konecranes Gottwald Cranes on Barge in the first quarter of 2023. Winning will use ten Konecranes Gottwald Cranes on Barge to load ships with bauxite off the coast of West Africa after on-site commissioning in Q3 2024. Konecranes is a world-leading group of Lifting Businesses serving customers, including manufacturing and process industries, shipyards, ports and terminals. Konecranes Gottwald Cranes on Barge are specially designed and constructed to ensure continuous material flow on water, even in harsh marine conditions. They are built to Lloyd's Register Code for Lifting Appliances in a Marine Environment and can operate in winds of up to 24 m/s and at maximum wave heights of 2.5 m. Sun Zhijun, the Vice President of...
On March 29, 2023, a train accident occurred in the district of Tinguilinta in the sub-prefecture of Tanéné in Boké. According to our information, a CBG train loaded with Bauxite in the province from Sangaredi struck a machine in which a young employee of a security company was present. It has been revealed that the latter eventually succumbed. Our informant claims that the switchman, Sadjouma N'Diaye, who is years 30 old, is the victim. The victim in question was lying in a tamping machine, the needle pointing to the siding. The accident occurred while descending a hill. The train carrying bauxite to Kamsar collided with the tamping machine, severely damaging it. Tamping machines do the same job as stone blowers, restoring the line and level of the track, but work slightly differently....
The Indian state-owned integrated aluminium company, National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO), has successfully developed a Bauxite Certified Reference Material (CRM) naming as BARC B1201 in collaboration with Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC). BARC is a multi-disciplinary research centre with extensive infrastructure for advanced research and development covering the entire spectrum of nuclear science, chemical engineering, material sciences and metallurgy, electronic instrumentation, biology and medicine, supercomputing, high-energy physics and plasma physics and associated research for Indian nuclear programme and related areas. The CRM developed by the two premier Govt. of India organizations is the first of its kind in India and the fifth in the world. For several years, the two...
Global bauxite production is estimated to reach 393 million tonnes in 2023, a growth trajectory expected to continue in the following years, according to AlCircle's latest industry-focused report, ' Global Aluminium Industry Outlook 2023 '. As a result, there will be a 2.6 per cent increase over 2022, primarily driven by the two largest bauxite producers in the world, viz. Australia and Guinea. Investing in capacity and ramping up production will drive this increase. Companies have taken up the goal of achieving carbon neutrality for operations as part of their sustainable efforts to maintain the environmental balance. The ' Global Aluminium Industry Outlook 2023' also revealed that in 2022, global bauxite production increased by around 4.1 per cent, compared to a growth of 2.4 per cent...
The world leader in the mining of bauxite and iron ore, among many other minerals, Rio Tinto, observed World Water Day on March 22, 2023, by publicising information about annual surface water usage across its global network of managed sites in 35 countries, through an interactive map on its website. The database details permitted surface water allocation volumes, the site's annual allocation usage, and the associated catchment runoff from each managed site's average yearly rainfall estimate. The database will be updated annually and include five years of historical comparative data. Rio Tinto pledged in 2019 to promote good water management and improved disclosure to stakeholders by sharing site-by-site surface water usage statistics for all managed sites by the end of 2023. The...
Guinea Alumina Corporation SA (GAC), the bauxite mining subsidiary of Emirates Global Aluminium, has acquired Performance Standard V2 (2017) Certification from the Aluminium Stewardship Initiative. It represents the first Guinean entity to receive ASI Certification. As per the report, GAC has bagged the certification for bauxite mining operations (including camps and facilities) near Sangarédi, port operations for bauxite export at Kamsar, rail operations between its facilities and the main rail line, and a biodiversity offset site. Last year, GAC exported 14 million wet tonnes of bauxite, making EGA one of the world's largest merchant suppliers of the mineral. The ASI Performance Standard V2 (2017) defines environmental, social and governance principles and criteria, aimining to address...
Following the disappearance of an employee of Bosai Mineral, Linden, Region 10, residents protested at the company's office, calling for the complete halt of bauxite mining on March 12, 2023. Neptrid Hercules, a company operator for the last 40 years, went missing in the early hours of Saturday. He is now presumed dead after a plot of land he was working on devoured him and the bulldozer he was driving. Despite the fact that a search and rescue operation was immediately launched, the man and the equipment are still missing more than 24 hours later. Hercules was working with a bulldozer to clear a plot of land when it caved in, according to reports. The man and the bulldozer are thought to be trapped several feet underground. On March 11, 2023, company employees used heavy machinery to...
