GAC grants Fluor the contract for its under-construction bauxite mine

Guinea Alumina Corporation S.A. (GAC), a bauxite mining company, a subsidiary of Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), yesterday announced that the company granted an engineering and program management consultancy contract worth $700 million to Fluor for its under-construction bauxite mine in the Boke region of Guinea, Africa.

The bauxite mine project is expected to begin production in 2018. The company will provide high-quality raw materials for alumina production facilities worldwide. Fluor completed the feasibility study for GAC’s Guinean mine in the second quarter of 2016.

Rick Koumouris, president of Fluor’s Mining & Metals business, said, “Fluor has worked with GAC since the preliminary phase of the project to develop a customized, capital-efficient design to meet the company’s unique business objectives.”

Fluor will work with GAC for the expansion of bauxite mine of 12 million-tonne-per-annum, and for building an export terminal in Port Kamsar along with other infrastructure.

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 Abdulla Kalban, managing director and chief executive officer of Emirates Global Aluminium, explained, “Guinea Alumina Corporation, a key investment for Emirates Global Aluminium, will drive significant local growth within Guinea and secure Emirates Global Aluminium’s position upstream in the aluminium chain.”

Fluor Corporation is a global engineering, procurement, fabrication, construction and maintenance company headquartered in the United States.