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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Metro Mining Limited has shown confidence about 2021 as its production has resumed at Bauxite Hills Mine after the northern Australia wet season. Metro Mining managing director Simon Finniss said that after a tricky 2020 when the bauxite markets experienced a dent due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we aim at supplying around 2.3 million wet metric tonnes (WMT) of bauxite to Xinfa in the immediate future. Mr Finniss said: “Trading conditions across the aluminium supply chain in China have stabilised and we foresee steady improvement during 2021, which we are hopeful will have a positive impact on bauxite demand and pricing.” Finniss also stated about an ongoing negotiation on a particular long-term contract, which if become successful, will begin in 2022 and extend over a five-year period....
The management of the Ghana Gas Company has engaged in a series of stakeholder consultative meetings on a proposal to cite a distribution plant at Adupri, a community in the Atwima Mponua District of the Ashanti region. It has come as the government’s primary intention to mine the Bauxite deposits on the Nyinahini land. The Dawusaro-Kumasi Gas Pipeline Project, which can supply Liquefied Petroleum Gas and will be used as the main firepower in the mining and processing of the Bauxite instead of electricity which is highly expensive. Augustina Osei Asare Osei Asare, Senior Manager of the Public Relations Unit, is leading a team of experts and officials of the company to the district to ascertain among other things where the pipes will be laid; which communities will be affected and the...
Rusal, a completely vertically integrated aluminium company has donated a bauxite quality control and analysis laboratory to Guinea. RUSAL has been operating successfully for 20 years in the Guinea mining sector. On 12 th April 2021, the official handover of this laboratory took place in the presence of Ismaël Dioubaté, the Guinean Minister of Budget, General Toumany Sangaré, the Director-General of Customs, as well as several executives from the Ministries of Mines and Budget. RUSAL contributed towards this ultra-modern modern laboratory to the Guinean State, as it includes the framework of its traditional support to the government and the people of Guinea. This laboratory is the first of its kind in the country and is located in the Kamsar (Boké) sub-prefecture. The infrastructure is...
The bauxite importation of Ukraine during January-March 2021 has shown a significant rise by 6%, when compared to the same period the previous year, to 1.303 million tonnes. As the data statistics released by the Ukrainian State Customs Service, it states that during this phase, bauxite imports in monetary terms increased by 11.8%, to $59.853 million. The imports were carried out majorly from Guinea with 56.17% of supplies in monetary terms, 25.85% from Brazil and 17.12% from Ghana. In January-March 2021, Ukraine re-exported 71 tonnes of bauxite to Poland and Germany. Mykolaiv Alumina Refinery LLC is the primary importer of bauxite into Ukraine.
The Australian authorities have detained a ship engaged to transport bauxite from Rio Tinto's operations on Cape York for revealing its crew to awful conditions including food and water shortages. The Movers 3 is one of two Aswan Shipping carriers under detention in Australia for multiple breaches of the Maritime Labour Convention. The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) inspected the Panama-flagged bulk carrier in the previous month discovered a defective freezer. Allan Schwartz, Executive Director of operations, AMSA, said: "That was resulting in unsafe and insufficient food stores for crew and dwindling freshwater supplies." “Aswan Shipping had displayed ‘continued reluctance’ to address food shortages and its health and safety obligations towards the crew, prompting Rio Tinto...
Seth Adjei, Technical Director of the Ghana Integrated Aluminium Development Corporation (GIADEC), has disregarded the propaganda as he professes that the entire Atewa Forest stands irreversible destruction should government proceed with plans to mine bauxite. While attending a workshop on the environment at Ghana’s capital Accra, he said: “It cannot be true and should not stall national development.” “We are talking about destroying the whole of the Atewa Forest. It is not true. It’s propaganda. The portion of the Atewa Forest that we are going to be ‘playing with is about 10% or less over 50 years. So you can imagine, 50 years, 10%, how much of it in a year are we going to touch?” Adjei added. He said: “The targeted five million tonnes of bauxite to be mined takes into account the...
The National Aluminium Company Limited, a Navratna CPSE having integrated and diversified operations in mining, metal and power under the Ministry of Mines, Government of India have registered all-time highest in bauxite production of 73,65,001 tonnes since its inception. This is counted as an affirmation of the hard work and commitment of the NALCO staffs. On reaching its peak in bauxite production, NALCO stated: “Records are meant to be broken. Despite challenging times, NALCO registered the highest ever Bauxite Production since inception, a testimony to the hard work and commitment by Team NALCO.” NALCO is one of the largest integrated primary producers of aluminium in Asia and its presence encompasses the entire value chain from bauxite mining, alumina refining, aluminium smelting,...
China Railway Seventh Group, a major Chinese construction conglomerate, reportedly paid a visit to Lindian Resources’ bauxite assets in Guinea, West Africa, to inspect project sites and associated existing infrastructure as part of the memorandum of understanding signed earlier this year. China Railway Seventh Group will play a key role in developing a feasible infrastructure road map to help the Perth-based company kick-start its bauxite production in Guinea. According to the memorandum signed, China Railway Seventh Group will support Lindian Resources to evaluate potential infrastructure development solutions to help facilitate a low CAPEX and early bauxite production pathway for smaller Woula project initially. The former will build a 10 kilometre haul road to link the existing...
Metro Mining Limited will restart operations at Bauxite Hills Mine after the northern Australia wet season. Operations are planned to resume on 19 April. The company aims to mine and ship 4.0M wet metric tonnes (WMT) of bauxite between April and December. Negotiations for additional sales are progressing well. “Last year Metro’s 4.0M WMT target was thwarted by the worldwide impact of COVID 19 on market conditions across the aluminium supply chain. Despite record mining and shipping rates, and lower operational costs, the Mine was forced into an early wet season shutdown in September,” Metro said. The company’s Stage 2 Expansion to an annualised rate of 6.0M WMT remains the core strategy for Bauxite Hills. Financing in Stage 2 is through a $47.5 Million loan facility offered by the...
Canyon Resources, focused on the development of the 100% owned Minim-Martap Bauxite Project, a direct shipping ore (DSO) project development opportunity in central Cameroon has announced that the Environmental and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) for the bauxite project is progressing well and is planned for submission in May 2021 to the Cameroon Ministry of Environment, Nature Protection and Sustainable Development (MINEPDED). The ESIA is a vital component of a mining permit application process and is being undertaken in line with the ESIA Terms of Reference submitted on 16 th April 2020 and accepted by the MINEPDED, and it aligns with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) Performance Standards and other key international standards, frameworks and guidelines. The scope of the ESIA...
Our sources reported on 23 rd March 2021, an investigation was opened in Paris after a complaint about corruption in the exploitation of bauxite in Guinea comprising President Alpha Condé, several of his relatives and mining companies. This preliminary investigation, opened by the National Financial Prosecutor's Office (PNF) in September, follows the complaint about "corruption, influence peddling and corruption laundering", filed in August by the Collective for the transition in Guinea (CTG). Ibrahim Sorel Keita, the CTG spokesperson, stated that they have very strong suspicions of corruption between the ruling clan and the miners. The words of CTG brings together the opponents of Alpha Condé, President since 2010 and re-elected in October’20 for a controversial third term. “The...
Tasmania and Queensland bauxite deposits have been reported with treasured rare-earth elements. The reliability of the ongoing supply of rare-earth elements is a cause of concern for multiple countries and industries, as the major producer, China is all set to restrict its supply. Several advanced technologies are using rare - earth element which includes smartphones, batteries, electric vehicles and military equipment. The ASX listed Australian Bauxite Limited announced early results from a 15-month exploration project in its "bauxite horizon" included: Two Tasmanian prospects - DL130, west of Launceston, and Fingal Rail, near Campbell Town - identified, with testing results showing DL130 was enriched with rare-earth elements; DL130 rare-earth elements values averaging six times higher...
The Chinese state-owned firm Sinohydro which deal with Ghana for bauxite mining brings out heavily condemnation from global environmentalists, as they warned that bauxite mining in the country’s crucial forests region would façade environmental risks. The West African nation, Ghana, signed bauxite for an infrastructure deal with China, which would authorize the Chinese firm to inject about $2 billion in Ghana’s infrastructure development. Ghana would utilize the money earned from the sale of bauxite in exchange to repay the loans. As a guarantee, Ghana agreed to establish an offshore deposit account for receiving revenues generated from the sale of bauxite. As of now, $646 million of the loan funds has been approved for disbursement. As per the report of the North Carolina, USA based Duke...
The Japanese multinational conglomerate, Mitsubishi Corporation has announced that it has reached an agreement with Anglo-Swiss multinational commodity trading and mining company Glencore Plc to acquire a 30% stake in the Aurukun Bauxite Project in Australia. Presently, Glencore is the whole owner of the Aurukun Bauxite Project in Queensland, Australia. This marks the first investment from Mitsubishi in regards to bauxite mining, in addition to the global giant’s existing aluminium smelting and trading operations. Mitsubishi conducts business through investment and development of resources such as iron ore and aluminium, in addition to its core operations in metallurgical coal and copper, aspiring to improve global outcomes by contributing to the transition to a low-carbon/decarbonized...
On 18 th March 2021, DADA Holdings and Enervoxa’s rare earth elements and minerals extraction joint venture, ElementUS, announced that it has engaged Techint Engineering and Construction, to commence front end engineering design this month in conjunction with the Enervoxa and DADA engineering teams. ElementUS will extract valuable rare earth elements and minerals from bauxite residue at DADA’s alumina refinery in Gramercy, Louisiana. However, ElementUS will deploy Enervoxa technology to separate bauxite residue into its component materials, including several rare earth elements along with iron, titanium and alumina. The multi-integrated infrastructure and renewable energy construction company, Enervoxa, based in Canada with its operations worldwide. Enervoxa implements their very own core...
On 15 th March, Vietnam National Coal and Mineral Industries Group, Vinacomin’s bauxite mining projects in the Central Highlands has been inspected by a delegation of the National Assembly The delegation inspected the mining site and production processes in Bao Lam district’s Lam Dong province, predominantly the management and treatment of hazardous chemicals during the alumina production process at the Tan Rai Alumina Plant of Vinacomin’s Lam Dong Aluminum Co. Ltd. The delegates’ paid special attention to environmental rehabilitation at former mining areas and red mud treatment. Nguyen Tien Manh, Deputy General Director of Vinacomin, said: “The bauxite projects in Lam Dong and neighbouring Dak Nong province have spent $1.7 million on environmental protection.” “In 2020, the two projects...
On 14 th March 2021, the protest of the workers of Mythri Infra Limited Company at Kodingamali under Laxmipur block in the district has crossed 45 days, as discussions among multiple stakeholders pursued to remain inconclusive regarding their retrenchment and demand of minimum wages as per the labour norms. Odisha Mining Corporation has subleased the Kodingamali bauxite mine to Mythri Infra Ltd. The workers under the banner of (KKSS) Kodingamali Khani Shramik Sangathan (Kodingamali mine labour association) have been continuing their strike in front of the Collectorate for the last one and half month voicing allegation that the company is not following the wages payment rules and other facilities as per mining sector norms. “However, the demands of the workers have so far fallen on deaf...
The Govt. of Ghana is standing at the final stage to close a deal for bringing in an investor to partner with the Ghana Integrated Aluminium Development Corporation (GIADEC) for bauxite exploitation in the country. Nana Akufo-Addo, President of Ghana, while addressing the parliament in his first State of the Nation address in his second term said: “GIADEC has made good progress on the bauxite exploration programme that will drive the government’s industrial transformation agenda.” “We are in the final stage of an open and transparent investor engagement process, and we are in negotiations to select strategic investors to partner GIADEC for the bauxite mining and alumina refinery projects. The selected partner will be announced imminently,” he added. GIADEC is an institution that was...
