Is Guinea to be slapped with a lawsuit? EGA’s stance raises a question: What is the country’s bauxite reckoning?
GAC (Guinea Alumina Corporation), the bauxite mining wing operating in Guinea has had become extensively dependent on the African country’s bauxite resources. Supporting the statement is the number, wherein the company exported 10.8 million tonnes of bauxite in 2024 alone, a noteworthy volume contributing to both EGA’s own needs and the global aluminium value chain. A portion of this bauxite also went for the supplies of EGA’s Al Taweelah alumina refinery in Abu Dhabi. On July 3, the Guinean military junta finally cancelled Emirates Global Aluminium’s (EGA) mining contract, stripping Guinea Alumina Corporation (GAC) of its operating license. Today, we try answering the ‘why’ and add value-added context to the recent industry-impacting turn of events.
Guinea’s actions for the past couple of months suggest that their bauxite boom is fast colliding with resource nationalism. The West African nation, endowed with more than 7.4 billion tonnes of bauxite (the world’s richest untapped reserve), is no longer content with being a raw material warehouse for aluminium giants.
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