The acquisition gives Rio Tinto control of a major undeveloped Cape York resource as it expands its existing Weipa operations and advances new mining areas. Rio Tinto is expanding its Cape York bauxite portfolio by acquiring the Aurukun bauxite project from Glencore and Mitsubishi, adding a...
Metro Mining's Bauxite Hills operation delivered record quarterly production as lower unit costs and a broader customer base strengthen its growth profile. Metro Mining is building momentum at its Bauxite Hills bauxite mine in Queensland, with record quarterly output, lower unit costs and improving...
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Metro Mining Limited has provided an update regarding its JORC reserves and resources for the Bauxite Hills mine following the first year of mining. The total reserve estimate for Bauxite Hills is now 109.5 million tonnes (wet), up 18.8% from 92.2 million tonnes in March 2017. This has the...
Rio Tinto reported a 1 per cent increase in bauxite production to 13.4 million tonnes in the second quarter of 2019. Production was up 5 per cent quarter-on-quarter. Bauxite production increased 1 per cent year-on-year to 26.1 million tonnes in the first half of 2019. “Production at managed...
According to a recent report, Ghana Bauxite Company Limited workers at Awaso are set to resume work following a successful renegotiation with the nine-member committee. The committee was set up to ensure the re-engagement of the workers. The workers were collectively agitated over the poor work...
The bauxite mine of National Aluminium Company Ltd (NALCO), located in the picturesque Koraput district of Odisha, has bagged the coveted ‘Golden Peacock Environment Management Award’ for the year 2019 for setting global benchmarks in Environmental Management. NALCO received the award at a ceremony...
Canyon Resources Limited continues to conduct aircore drilling over the Minim Martap Project, a World Class, Tier One Bauxite asset in Cameroon, and recently discovers high-quality results yet again, according to a report. The drilling was conducted on the Agnes Plateau from where Canyon discovered...
According to the Statistical data from ABAL, the aluminium industry association of Brazil, the country’s total bauxite production from January to December 2018 dropped 16% to 32 million tonnes from 38 million tonnes in 2017. It was mostly driven by production drop in Norsk Hydro’s bauxite mine at...
According to the latest USGS release on Bauxite and Alumina in the First Quarter of 2019, imports of crude and dried bauxite by the U.S. in Q1 2019 were 748,000 tonnes, 14% less than the revised total of 873,000 tonnes in the fourth quarter of 2018. However the volume 7% more than the revised total...
According to a recent report, South32 Worsley Alumina has submitted a revised proposal to the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) stating its wish to expand Worsley bauxite mine in the South West of Australia. In the revised proposal, the Australian mining company has also mentioned that the...
According to a local media update from Jamaica, total bauxite exports from Jamaica in 2018 increased by 26.5 per cent to just over 10 million tonnes. It was the first increase in export registered since 2014. The higher volume of exports was driven by an expansion in the bauxite equivalent of...
Metro Mining reportedly ramped up its bauxite production and shipping from Bauxite Hills Mine in Far North Queensland through the June quarter. According to the report, the company reached the budgeted operating rates and generated consistent results on a daily basis. Metro experienced some...
Australian Bauxite Limited (ABx) announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary ALCORE Limited has started chemical refining of ABx bauxite into aluminium fluoride (AlF3), an essential electrolyte ingredient in aluminium smelters. The company has commenced the removal of silicon and iron oxides to...
Metro Mining Ltd has signed a new binding contract with a major state-owned Chinese Aluminium Group. The agreement with the Group covers 420,000 WMT (wet metric tonnes) of bauxite to be delivered in the H2 of 2019. It means the company has sold approximately 90% of its planned 2019 production of...
The Minister of Lands and Natural Resources, Mr. Kwaku Asomah Kyeremeh, has reportedly assured the management of the Ghana Bauxite Company (GBC) that development of the bauxite industry is the government’s one of the top priorities and commitments. For that reason, the government would take every...
Andhra Pradesh government has decided to cancel permission given to a state run company to mine bauxite in the tribal areas of Eastern Ghats. Andhra Pradesh with 600 million tonnes or nearly 22%, of India’s bauxite reserves, has the second largest bauxite reserve after Odisha. Chief Minister YS...
China’s Rizhao Port Group is reportedly chosen by Aluminium Corporation of China (Chalco) as the operator of the Boffa Port project in Guinea. The Boffa Port, part of the Boffa bauxite project, has a capacity of handling 12 million tonnes of bauxite per year. The port is expected to commence its...
Romania’s estimated imports of bauxite increased 37.54 per cent on the year in 2018. The country procured 1.819 million tonnes of bauxite from the global market last year. Sierra Leone continued to remain the top bauxite supplier to Romania. Sierra Leone supplied 1.814 million tonnes of bauxite in...
Emirates Global Aluminium, popularly known as EGA, announced today, on June 24, that the first Capesize vessel fully-loaded with bauxite has arrived to call at any GCC port at its quay at Khalifa Port in Abu Dhabi for EGA’s new Al Taweelah alumina refinery. Using Capesize vessels for importing...
After recording a month-on-month rise in April 2019, China’s bauxite import in May declined 4.59 per cent from April to come in at 9.71 million tonnes, according to China Customs data. In April 2019, China’s bauxite import was at 9.77 million tonnes after rising 24.5 per cent from a month ago. On a...
