If aluminium has a pressure point right now, it sits one step upstream of the metal itself - in alumina. China’s appetite for imported ore remains elevated, alumina markets diverge between regions, and disruptions in Guinea and Australia expose logistics risks. At the same time, tariffs and...
Alcoa’s proposed acquisition of South32’s aluminium assets in Australia, Brazil and South Africa is an important development for the global aluminium industry, particularly for South Africa’s primary aluminium production. Aluminium Federation of South Africa (AFSA) CEO, Muzi Manzi, said, “On July...
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BHP Billiton has finally announced the name of its spin-off company to be ‘South32’, which will hold all of BHP’s non-core assets like aluminium, nickel, silver and manganese mines, as well as some of its coal assets. The name was suggested by an employee driven by the fact that most of the...
Anglo-African Mineral, attempting to continue work defying the raging Ebola outbreak, has signed a contract with Toumyne, a drilling contractor in Guinea in October so that they can take up the Auger drilling campaign on the Momo, Elevation and Samaya plateau, an area which falls under the...
Aziana Limited has been granted an ASX trading halt in relation to a proposed asset disposal. The company has bauxite, copper and graphite mineral projects in Madagascar as well as working interests in oil and gas exploration and production leases in the Gulf of Mexico offshore Louisiana. In the...
Graham Kerr, the CEO-elect for the proposed new company ( Newco) said in a press conference on Monday that the progress of the BHP demerger is going “very, very well.” They are now at a stage of seeking approvals from Australia, South Africa and other jurisdictions at the same time engaging with...
BHP Billiton, in the process of exiting the aluminium business, has sold of its Bayside casthouse to Isizinda Aluminium ahead of its demerger planned in 2015. Isizinda Aluminium is owned by two bodies in a 60-40 partnership. Bingelela Capitals, which is a KwaZulu-Natal broad-based black economic...
University of Wyoming students are collecting aluminum cans to raise funds for an orphanage in Kenya. Students in a cross-cultural communication class taught by Tracey Patton are working with Wise Recycling, a national company that promotes fundraising through community recycling. Aluminum cans can...
Western Marine Shipyard has shipped a newly constructed aluminum body catamaran type passenger ship for Tanzania on the 2nd of November 2014. The ship named “MV Dar Es Salaam” was boarded on another heavy carrier mother vessel at Chittagong port for transporting it to Tanzania, the company said in...
Western Marine Shipyard has shipped a newly constructed aluminum body catamaran type passenger ship for Tanzania on the 2nd of November 2014. The ship named “MV Dar Es Salaam” was boarded on another heavy carrier mother vessel at Chittagong port for transporting it to Tanzania, the company said in...
The Rusal Aughinish refinery in Ireland receives regular shipments of bauxite from Guinea in West Africa which is the third most Ebola affected area after Liberia and Sierra Leone. The company officials however claim that none of their workers have contracted the disease yet due to their stringent...
Anglo African Minerals, an Ireland based company is planning to speed up the development of their Gunieau-based bauxite project of 43-million ton so that it can start production by 2016. The project spread across 338 km square and once it takes off, it will ease the tension caused by the ban on...
Alro Slatina, a Romanian group and among the largest aluminium producers in Eastern and Central Europe recently announced that none of their Romanian workers are working in the company owned mine in Sierra Leone which falls in the region of high infestation of the Ebola virus. Alro’s...
Local furnace and industrial services company Dickinson Group of Companies, has shown an increase of 60% in business over the course of last 20 years through constant expansion of its specialized industrial services in the aluminium industry. The MD of DRS Mozambique, the aluminium smelter services...
Al Ghurair Group, United Arab Emirates (UAE)-based business group is going to set up an aluminum factory with 50 million USD jointly with Tracon Trading, a local company. After discussing with President Dr. Mulatu Teshome, owner of the Group, Majid Saif Al Ghurair told reporters that preparations...
Mining operations and ore shipments have been halted and disrupted by the ongoing outbreak of Ebola in West Africa, which has claimed thousands of lives in the region. Will Ebola in West Africa affect the Chinese aluminum industry, or in which ways? Annual output of bauxite in Guinea, Ghana, Sierra...
The chairman of Bauxite Angola said on Wednesday that they are planning to spend over US$500 million in Guinea-Bissau at the time it re-launches the Madina Boe bauxite mining which is located in the east of the country, in the Gabu region. On April 12, 2012 a coup was organized by Carlos Gomes...
Anglo-African Minerals plc, the GXG quoted mineral exploration company focused on West Africa, is pleased to deliver an update to its shareholders regarding the results from the recent drilling campaign on the FAR bauxite licence in the Kindia Prefecture, Guinea. In May 2014 the Company engaged...
Nampak, Africa's biggest packing firm, is considering doubling the capacity of its Nigerian beverage can factory to meet fast-growing demand in Africa's biggest economy, its chief executive said on Thursday. Johannesburg-based Nampak, a major supplier of plastic milk bottles in Britain, paid more...
Canyon Resources Ltd plans to produce bauxite in the Birsok project which involves two permits for a surface area that spans 1,460 km2 in Cameroon. The last set of samples collected during the reconnaissance drilling on Baoua, a 700 by 350 metre plateau yielded “the best results” of the drilling...
