Ghana puts bauxite, lithium and iron ore in the spotlight to woo Australian capital
Ghana has stepped up efforts to attract Australian investment into its growing critical minerals sector, pitching the country as a stable and reform-driven destination for mining and value-added mineral development at the 2026 Africa Down Under (ADU) Summit in Perth. The Ghanaian delegation was led...
Alcoa prices $2.6b senior notes for South32 bauxite, alumina and aluminium deal
Alcoa Corporation has set the price for a USD 2.6 billion senior notes offering to help finance the cash consideration for its proposed acquisition of South32’s bauxite, alumina, and aluminium assets . Along with the cash on hand, this debt is expected to provide permanent funding for the...
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QLD farmer to lock bauxite miner out
A Queensland farmer says he will lock his gates today if a mining exploration company tried to enter his land. Keith Jessen, from the South Burnett region in Southern Queensland told the ABC he had originally given permission for Queensland Bauxite to enter his property to take soil samples,...
Kingaroy locks the gate on Bauxite
RURAL landholders in the South Burnett region have resolved to “lock the gate” on Queensland Bauxite (QBL), which is proposing to develop a bauxite industry on the region's fertile red soils. The company was recently granted an Exploration Permit for Minerals (EPM) by the Queensland Government, and...
Taralga Bauxite Resource Doubled To 25 Million Tonnes
Australian Bauxite Limited (ASX:ABZ) has 33 bauxite tenements in eastern Australia covering more than 7,500 km2. To clarify the marketability of the bauxite types found in the Taralga-Goulburn-Crookwell area in southern NSW, detailed drilling was recently conducted at spacings of approximately 100...
Kingaroy landholders say no to bauxite exploration until their concerns are resolved
At a recent meeting in Kingaroy, rural landholders have resolved to “lock the gate” on Queensland Bauxite (QBL), which is proposing to develop a bauxite industry on the fertile red soils of the South Burnett. The company was recently granted an Exploration Permit for Minerals (EPM) by the...
Cape Alumina finalizes access agreements at Bauxite Hills
Cape Alumina Limited announced that it had finalized access agreements with Western Cape York Aboriginal land owners in the Company’s proposed Bauxite Hills mine and port project area, clearing the way for a large scale exploration and drilling program to begin later this year. Exploration Consent...
Cape Alumina agrees deal with land owners for bauxite mine
ASX-listed Cape Alumina has finalised agreements with the Cape York Aboriginal land owners for the proposed Bauxite Hills mine and port project, in Queensland, clearing the way for a large-scale exploration and drilling programme to start later this year. The bauxite developer said on Thursday that...
Cape York mine deal raises hopes to boost Cairns economy
A LARGE-scale bauxite exploration and drilling program will begin north of Weipa later this year after a mining company finalised access agreements with Cape York traditional land owners. The agreement between Cape Alumina Limited and the Apudthama Land Trust was announced yesterday, bringing the...
Ord River Resources to IPO 2nd largest alumina company on ASX
...Ord River Resources (ASX: ORD) and China Non-Ferrous Metal Industry’s Foreign Engineering & Construction Co. Ltd (NFC) are looking to IPO their Lao Bauxite/Alumina Project, which could rank it second to Alumina Ltd (ASX: AWC) in size in Australia...
Ord River Resources to IPO 2nd largest alumina company on ASX
...Ord River Resources (ASX: ORD) and China Non-Ferrous Metal Industry’s Foreign Engineering & Construction Co. Ltd (NFC) are looking to IPO their Lao Bauxite/Alumina Project, which could rank it second to Alumina Ltd (ASX: AWC) in size in Australia...
Sino Australian Resources appoints RBC to advise on Australia IPO
...The joint venture wants to raise $600 million to construct an alumina refinery in Laos with minimum annual capacity of 600,000 tonnes, Ord River said in a statement on Monday...
Bauxite Resources Limited (ASX:BAU) Report Resource Update For North Darling Range
...Perth-based bauxite explorer and developer, Bauxite Resources Ltd (ASX:BAU) is pleased to announce an update to the bauxite resource base in the North Darling Range area...
Dollar Swaps Offering Savings as Alumina Eyes Debut Sale: Australia Credit
... Alumina Ltd. (AWC), Alcoa Inc.’s partner in Melbourne, may consider selling its first bonds in Australian dollars and take advantage of the currency swaps market where savings are almost double the 10-year average. The five-year Australian dollar basis swap has risen 0.3 basis point this month...
Bauxite firm downplays exploration impact
... A company exploring for bauxite in southern Queensland's South Burnett says its operations will have minimal impact. Queensland Bauxite, owned by Volcan Holdings, has a permit to explore in an area extending from Blackbutt to Childers, near Bundaberg. ...
Australia CO2 tax to have minor impact on steel, aluminium-govt
...Australia's government played down the impact of a carbon price on steel and aluminum producers on Wednesday, saying its planned carbon tax would add only a fraction to the cost of their goods...
Yarwun metering station facility
...emena recently completed a new connection to the Queensland Gas Pipeline for Rio Tinto Alcan’s Yarwun Alumina Refinery Expansion in Gladstone. The company allowed The Australian Pipeliner a first-hand glimpse at the facility...
Bauxite Resources and Yankuang form WA venture
...ASX-listed Bauxite Resources has officially undertaken its exploration and refinery joint venture (JV) with China’s Yankuang Corporation covering the Darling Range tenements, in Western Australia...
RioTinto still talks on Riversdale Mining
...a partner at law firm Minter Ellison Group, which represents Rio Tinto -- in a letter released through the Australian stock exchange said Rio is in talks with a major shareholder in the coal company to secure a sufficient number of shares to gain it a majority stake. Trading in Riversdale shares...
Alcoa picks up pace to unlock Warro gas riches
...Alcoa's search for fuel to help fire its WA alumina refineries is set to pick up pace as it prepares to drill a key well designed to unlock the big Warro gas field near Moora...
