Ashapura targets INR 100 billion bauxite revenue opportunity as Guinea volumes rise
Ashapura Minechem is preparing for its next phase of growth by expanding its Guinea bauxite operations while shifting its Indian business towards higher-value mineral products. The company is targeting 15 million tonnes of annual bauxite volumes by FY28, a level management believes could generate...
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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Orissa weighing alternative bauxite source for Vedanta
After a unanimous rejection of the proposal to mine bauxite in the Niyamgiri hills by village councils in the Rayagada and Kalahandi districts, the Orissa government is examining the option of providing mineral linkage to Vedanta’s alumina plant through the Sijumali-Kutrumali mines. If the state...
Bauxite mining gets green signal in Bua, Fiji
Another landowning unit in Bua has given its consent for bauxite mining on its piece of land, 500 metres from the existing mining area in Nawailevu. This will be the second mining area in the province of Bua on Vanua Levu. Members of the mataqali Naita from the village of Votua in the district of...
Hongqiao negotiates with Indonesian Government to export bauxite with tax exemptions
Leading aluminium producer China Hongqiao Group Ltd. is negotiating with Indonesian government to allow it export bauxite with tax exemptions. Hongqiao Group, which hopes to export 10-12 million tons of bauxite from Indonesia over the next 5-8 years, has commenced negotiation with the Indonesian...
Last gram sabha seals bauxite mining prospect at Niyamgiri
"Tribals in colourful and traditional attire danced in joy as the last of the 12 gram sabhas on Monday overwhelmingly voted against the proposed bauxite mining by Vedanta Group’s alumina refinery plant in Odisha’s Niyamgiri hills. With this all the 12 gram sabhas have voted against the proposed...
Last gram sabha on Niyamgiri bauxite mining to be held on Monday at Jarapa village
Last gram sabha on Niyamgiri bauxite mining issue to be held Monday at Jarapa village under Muniguda block of Rayagada district. The state government already conducted gram sabha 11 villages where villagers said no to mining on Niyamgiri. For last Gram Sabha the district administration arranged all...
Uncertainty looms over Vedanta plan
With the verdict in the first-ever environmental referendum being conducted on bauxite mining in Niyamgiri hills on the directive of the Supreme Court written on the wall, uncertainty clouds the future of Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL)’s INR 40,000-crore investment plan in Odisha. Eleven palli...
Compensation paid to Harita Bauxite disaster victims
Local media in Myanmar report Singapore’s Ocean Sentinels Ship Management has handed over around $1m as compensation to Myanmar seafarers and families involved in the Harita Bauxite ship sinking in February, in which 15 people perished. The Harita Bauxite sank in Philippine waters on its way to...
Alcoa's RopeCon system makes Jamalco bauxite accessible
High above the plateau at Jamaica’s Mount Oliphant is a technology that would traditionally be more at home in a ski resort than at a bauxite mine in the Caribbean. An almost silent 3.4km-long Rope Conveyor (RopeCon) system whirls overhead, transporting bauxite from Alcoa’s South Manchester mine...
11th Village Council also rejects mining on Niyamgiri Hills
In another setback to the Odisha government's plan for bauxite mining for Vedanta on the Niyamgiri hills, an eleventh Gram Sabha and the penultimate one of the scheduled 12 to be held, today voted against the proposal. The Gram Sabha or village meeting at Khambesi village in Rayagada district...
Rio Tinto to decide on Bauxite expansion within year, Cote says
Rio Tinto Group, the world’s second-largest mining company, will decide within the next year on whether to expand its Weipa bauxite mining operation in Australia to help capture rising demand from China. Bauxite is “the healthiest” of the three products sold by Rio Tinto Alcan, Jacynthe Cote, chief...
Antam seeks partners for 35% stake in Mempawah
State-owned diversified miner PT Aneka Tambang (Antam) is seeking partners for the development of a processing plant to convert bauxite into smelter grade alumina (SGA). Antam president director Tato Miraza said the company sought a maximum of two partners for the project, which will be located in...
Rio signs MoU for bauxite mine in northeast Arnhem Land
As Aboriginal leaders call for their communities to become economically independent, the people of northeast Arnhem Land may soon own their own mine. At the Garma Festival held over the weekend on a Yolngu site 14km outside of Nhulunbuy, the Gumatj Aboriginal Corporation and Rio Tinto-owned Gove...
India’s bauxite mining woes to continue even after Niyamgiri rejection
When the voting stops on August 19, the scorecard for Vedanta’s bauxite mining, which is currently 9-0, may well read 12-0, an emphatic rejection of state and corporate plans to mine bauxite atop the Niyam Dongar hilltop in the Kalahandi district of Odisha. Twelve tribal villages that call this...
Vedanta to discuss bauxite mining issue with Odisha government
After more than half the gram sabhas in the tribal villages opposed bauxite mining in the Niyamgiri hills, Vedanta Aluminium said on Monday that it will discuss the fallout with the Odhisa government soon, but will continue to operate the plant by sourcing raw material from other sources. "Our...
LED illuminators help increase productivity at Western Australia bauxite mine
LED illuminators from Raytec have significantly increased productivity at the world’s largest bauxite mine in Western Australia, in a state of the art lighting upgrade in an incredibly remote and challenging environment. The mine currently produces around 23 million tonnes of bauxite a year and was...
Bauxite mining losing ground in Tanzania
Efforts to reclaim highly degraded nature reserves across the country have born fruits following intervention by the Eastern Arc Mountains Conservation Endowment Fund (EAMCEF). The degradation has been caused by bauxite and alluvial gold mining in areas such as Amani and Chome Nature Reserves....
Bauxite out of bounds, Vedanta now turns to laterite deposits
With hopes of mining bauxite in Niymagiri hills virtually dashed, Vedanta Aluminum Limited (VAL) is now eyeing laterite deposits in Rayagada district for raw material for its Lanjigarh refinery. The company sought permission for extracting laterite deposits at Sagabari, Panabara and Arotokoni...
Miner Academy at Bauxite opens virtual training school for students
The traditional classroom setting doesn't fit all students' needs. That is why the Bauxite School District has started a charter school with an individualized learning approach. When school starts back on August 19, Bauxite will have an elementary school, middle school and two high schools. Miner...
