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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Bauxite import by Ukraine has been recording a steady growth year over year since 2016. According to our third-party data, Ukraine had imported an estimated amount of 3.2 million tonnes in the said year, which in 2017 had risen to 4.8 million tonnes. Therefore, in 2017, Ukraine’s bauxite import had recorded a jump of 50 per cent year-on-year. In 2018, the estimated import amount grew further to 5 million tonnes, up 4 per cent from 2017. This year is expected to show no exception either, as the amount of bauxite import by Ukraine is expected to climb 8 per cent year-on-year to 5.4 million tonnes. Alongside, Ukraine’s bauxite import cost has been growing as well. From US$122 million in 2016, the country’s estimated cost of import had grown to US$212 million in 2017, up 74 per cent. The year...
Guinea government is focusing on increasing its energy production capacity by about four fold over next six years in order to help bauxite mining companies refine their bauxite locally, an announcement from the energy minister recently stated. Guinea is Africa’s biggest producer of bauxite and the growing bauxite demand from China has caused a boom in the country’s bauxite industry. The country now accounts for more than half of China’s bauxite imports. Now, in order to leverage on its mining resources for economic development, the government is encouraging mining companies to build refineries in order to refine them into alumina, the key raw material for aluminium. “Mines are, quite simply, development. And the mines can’t develop without energy,” Cheick Taliby Sylla said on the...
The international SMB-Winning consortium which is building a railway service for Guinea bauxite industry investing US$3 billion made the announcement on Friday that Guinea’s new railway line will be ready to transport bauxite by June 2021. The project also aims to exploit new bauxite deposits in the Santou and Houda region that falls 250 km north of Conakry. The railway service will transport and process the ore for export. The bauxite ore is expected to be processed at an alumina refinery to be built in the Boké special economic zone. This is a city close to the border with Guinea-Bissau. This 135-kilometre railway track will be constructed by two Chinese companies. Guinea has the largest bauxite reserve in the world though most of its ore is still unexplored. Guinea derives most of its...
According to Shanghai Metals Market, the price of Bauxite(6.0≤Al/Si＜7.0)Shanxi has recorded a fall today, April 30, by RMB 10 per tonne to stand at RMB 540 per tonne. January 1, 2019, was the last time when Bauxite(6.0≤Al/Si＜7.0)Shanxi price had recorded a fall from RMB 570 per tonne to RMB 550 per tonne, followed which the price continued to show restraint until today. The price of Bauxite(6.0≤Al/Si＜7.0)Henan has also registered a drop today, but by RMB 20 per tonne to stand at RMB 500 per tonne. The Bauxite(6.0≤Al/Si＜7.0)Henan price had fallen previously on April 22 from RMB 530 per tonne to RMB 520 per tonne. Since then the price remained unchanged until today. The alumina spot price, on the other hand, continues to grow, found Shanghai Metals Market. The price today has grown to RMB...
According to the latest update from Shanghai Metals Market, State Power Investment Corporation Shanxi Aluminium has recommenced its bauxite mining project in Kuancaoping Town of Ningwu County on Saturday, April 20. The news came after it was released on the Ningwu government website on Tuesday, April 23. The construction of the mine had initially started in February 2010. Then due to some historic issues, project was on halt for about a decade. The mining license for the project was obtained from the Department of Land and Resources of Shanxi province in December 2012, SMM learned. SPIC is one of China's top five power generators, and an integrated energy group with power as its core. It has a total installed capacity of 107.4 GW, including 68.27 GW of thermal power, 20.94 GW of...
Guinea’s independent mineral exploration and development company Alufer Mining has started detailed engineering studies on its Bel Air bauxite mine in Guinea. The study will evaluate its proposed plan to expand bauxite production to ten-million tonnes a year. The company said on Wednesday that the bauxite mining operations in the mine were on track to produce the yearly target of 5.5-million tonnes of bauxite in 2019. The operational team is optimising each part of the system and making sure that the transhipment process is performing efficiently with maximum loading rates and barge cycle times. The company also said that the preliminary engineering studies have already shown some robust data and indicated that this would be a capital efficient way to optimise project capabilities. The...
According to a Reuters report, Indonesia’s PT Aneka Tambang (Antam), a mining company owned by the state is planning to request for additional export quotas for nickel ore and bauxite for 2019. This was announced by Aneka Chief Executive Arie Prabowo Ariotedjo on Wednesday. He said that PT Aneka Tambang also plans to request for an additional bauxite export quota of 2 million tonnes for 2019. Currently, the limit of bauxite export quota stands at 840,000 tonnes. The company is likely to submit the additional quota proposal to the government within the next two months. PT Aneka Tambang (Antam) reported the production results for first-quarter 2019 and registered growth in Nickel production. Antam produced 187,830 wet tonnes of bauxite in Q1, down 6% from 200,300 wet tonnes in Q1 2018....
The Australia-based minerals exploration company Metallica Minerals Limited (ASX: MLM) announces that it has undertaken an investigation along with its joint venture partner into access arrangements for a barge loading facility (BLF) to allow exporting bauxite from the Urquhart Bauxite Project. The Urquhart Bauxite Project forms a part of the Cape York Bauxite and Heavy Minerals Sands JV agreement. Also, Metallica Minerals manages and owns 50 percent of the project. MLM said it has to negotiate for probable priority access to the BLF, held by Green Coast Resources at the Hey Point. In the middle of February 2019, a negotiation with the third-party owner of Hey Point had taken place but did not result in a feasible commercial contract that could enable practical use of the Hey Point...
Chinese state-run shipping giant Cosco has reportedly signed a contract to construct up to ten 210,000 dwt newcastlemax bulkers to support its long-term shipping project with Aluminium Corporation of China (Chalco). This order, consisted of eight firm vessels and two optional vessels, is Cosco’s first batch of newcastlemax newbuildings under a bauxite transportation deal with Chalco. The vessel will transport bauxite from Guinea’s Boffa bauxite project to China. In June 2018, Aluminium Corporation of China (Chalco) had entered into an agreement with the government of Guinea to develop the Boffa bauxite project in the west of the country. The company had been granted mining licenses for 15 years, which is renewable by 15 years more on expiry. The project is expected to produce 12 million...
The office of Guinean President Alpha Conde has announced that the President will take command of Societe Guinneenne du Patrimoine Minier, known by its French acronym Soguipami, from the mines ministry. Soguipami or the Guinean Heritage Mining Company is a public limited company owned by the Guinean State. The company is responsible for: Managing state holdings in mining companies and mining permits Marketing and transportation of mining products Managing government's negotiations on contracts between the State and the mining companies Development of mining infrastructures Assuming oversight of the Guinea’s state-owned mining company will offer the President more authority over the country’s holdings in some of world’s biggest bauxite deposits. Soguipami holds a 49% stake in Compagnie des...
Jamaica's Member of Parliament Phillip Paulwell opines in the 2019/20 Sectoral Debate in the House of Representatives that the bauxite and alumina sector in Jamaica remains positive as the industry’s future looks promising based on the increasing demand worldwide. He also expressed satisfaction for the recommencement of operations at Jamaica’s Alpart plant under the management of Chinese firm, Jiuquan Iron and Steel Company (JISCO). “I'm pleased to see renewed life and energy in the towns surrounding the plant. I'm glad with the growing levels of employment and the many corporate contributions to the community. I'm happy for the sharing of technology and training of Jamaicans at Chinese universities. JISCO is indeed making a difference in the Jamaican economy; we are pleased that JISCO...
According to the report from the Ministry of Finance, the bauxite production in Guyana in the mid-2018 was at 900,000 tonnes, up 21.1 per cent from the same period of 2017 and the highest since 2013. This indicates that momentum in the bauxite industry, which had begun at the end of 2017 continued through 2018. The Ministry said bauxite companies were able to maintain high levels of production in response to favourable market conditions. {newsStudioGallery} With the increase in bauxite production in Guyana, the country’s bauxite export also continued to see a jump. While in 2016 Guyana’s estimated bauxite export was at 1.33 million tonnes, in 2017 it increased to 1.38 million tonnes, up 3.8 per cent, according to our third-party data. This hike in Guyana’s bauxite export extended further...
Rio Tinto announced first quarter 2019 production results. Bauxite production stood at 12.8 million tonnes in Q1 2019, up one per cent from the same period of 2018. “Increased production capacity following the expansion of Amrun in Queensland was partly offset by weather events throughout the quarter at Weipa, Amrun and Gove, which significantly impacted production,” the company said in its press release. First quarter production was eight per cent higher than the fourth quarter of 2018. The third party shipments of 8.8 million tonnes were achieved in the first quarter of 2019, seven per cent higher than same period of 2018. Third party shipments in Q1 2019 was 20 per cent higher the fourth quarter of 2018. “The Amrun project was officially opened on 8 March 2019 and commissioning is...
The average Bauxite (4.5≤Al/Si＜5.5) price in Henan stood at RMB430 per tonne on Monday, 15 April 2019, down RMB10 per tonne from RMB440 per tonne. The average price is expected to range between RMB390-470 per tonne. Prices of bauxite remain unchanged in all the three major China markets (Shanxi, Guangxi and Guizhou). The average Bauxite CIF price increased to US$45.50 per tonne as on April 15. The average price is expected to hover between US$45 per tonne and US$46 per tonne. Australian alumina FOB price stood at US$380 per tonne, down USD15 per tonne. A00 aluminium ingot price in China decreased to RMB13820 per tonne today. Spot aluminium contract is likely to be traded at discounts of RMB20 per tonne to premiums of RMB20 per tonne. The average price is expected to range between RMB13800...
Australian Bauxite Limited had produced 31,600 tonnes of bauxite from its Bald Hill mine as reported on Monday 9 April. With this, the company has achieved the target of 30,000 to 33,000 of cement-grade bauxite 3 weeks before the contract date of 1 May 2019. Production still continues at the Bald Hill Bauxite Project and the total production is expected to cross 33,000 tonnes by the end of this week. Trucks have already delivered 31,600 tonnes to the port stockpile at Bell Bay. The volume is now loaded at the port and deliveries are ready to be shipped. Shipping plans are also advanced and the shipped are expected to arrive a week earlier than planned. Plans are underway to achieve a maximum shipment of 33,000 tonnes, subject to berth and tide conditions. Additional product stockpiles of...
Seventy additional bauxite plateaux have been recently discovered by Canyon Resources Limited across three permits at Minim Martap project, according to Proactive Investors report. Canyon used a light imaging, detection and ranging (LiDAR), and high-resolution ortho-photographic survey to identify the plateaux. The company reportedly processed data from the survey into a highly accurate and detailed elevation model (DEM), which enabled them to identify the size, location and elevation of the additional plateaux on the Minim Martap, Makan and Ngaoundal permits. Phillip Gallagher, Canyon managing director said, “It is pleasing to see that the untested bauxite plateau that can be seen into the distance when visiting the project are all at a similar elevation as the identified high-grade...
As the wet season in Australia from November 2018 to April 2019 comes to an end, Metro Mining Limited has reportedly geared up and resumed bauxite mining at the Bauxite Hills Project in Far North Queensland. The company this year expects to be able to build on the success of its first operation year in 2018. The primary target of Metro Mining in 2019 is to meet the increasing demand of bauxite from China, particularly from refineries in inland Chinese provinces where supply was hindered by recent mine closures and environmental audits. This year China is expected to import 90 million tonnes of bauxite, compared with 82 million tonnes last year. Even in the subsequent years, the bauxite demand from China is likely to remain strong and grow to as high as 180 million tonnes by 2030,...
Lindian Resources announced that it signed an exclusive option agreement with KB Bauxite Guinea Sarlu and its sole shareholder Guinea Bauxite Pty Ltd, in a bid to acquire the Gauoal Bauxite Project. The project spanning over 332 square kilometres is strategically located close to essential infrastructure, 64 kilometres away from Sangaredi Railway and 155 kilometres from deep water Kamsar Port. According to the agreement, Lindian can initially acquire up to 51 per cent interest in the project. But for that, the company needs to invest around US$1 million towards the project development in the next 24 months, with rights to move to 75 per cent equity interest in KB Bauxite. The agreement also prompts that Lindian will reimburse any funds spent by KB Bauxite on the development of the...
