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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UAIL's corporate social responsibility breaks new ground in Odisha
The green field bauxite mining and refinery project of Utkal Alumina International Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hindalco Industries Limited and a part of the Aditya Birla Group, an Indian multinational conglomerate is ready for commissioning and will be operational by the end of this...
ALPART to resume operations in first quarter of 2016
Minister of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining, Hon. Phillip Paulwell, has announced that the bauxite and alumina company, Alpart, in Nain, St. Elizabeth, would resume operations in the first quarter of 2016, following completion of the refinery’s new energy infrastructure. The re-opening will...
Bauxite Resources Limited announces upgrade of Darling Range bauxite resource
Bauxite Resources Limited is pleased to announce a resource upgrade for the Felicitas bauxite deposit in the Darling Range Western Australia. The resource is situated on a small number of large private landholdings located approximately 60km north east of Perth, and 10km from the town of Wundowie....
Bauxite Resources Limited March 2013 Quarterly Activities and Cash flow Reports
Bauxite Resources Limited continues to focus primarily on evaluating bauxite prospectivity in the Darling Range and exploration throughout the Company's extensive tenement holding. Currently BRL holds 22,500km2 in Exploration Licences in the Darling Range of south west Western Australia. The...
Talks continue between Hururu villagers and Rusal
Tonight discussions continue between Hururu village Council and Rusal’s Bauxite Company of Guyana to reach an agreement on the use of 300 acres for a new bauxite crushing plant in the village. Reports are that blockages to land and river accessed were being removed. Today, a team from the...
Indigenous Indians block Russian bauxite operations for higher pay
Indigenous Amerindians in south-eastern Guyana have virtually halted the operations of the Russian Aluminium Company to press demands for more money to be paid to them for use of a roadway and the excavation of a new area. Councillors of Hururu, an Amerindian mission in Upper Berbice River, and...
China’s proven bauxite reserves hit 4.08 billion in 2012
According to data from the Ministry of Land and Resources, China’s proven bauxite reserves grew 210 million mt to 4.08 billion mt in 2012, rising for three years in a row and at CAGR of 4.75%. Proven bauxite reserves across China totaled 3.55 billion mt in 2009. Assuming 2 mt of bauxite per ton...
Newman Government releases five shortlisted bidders for Aurukun bauxite deposit
CHINA'S biggest aluminium maker will go head-to-head with its biggest rivals in a pitch for the $25 billion Aurukun bauxite deposit on Cape York. The Newman Government has released the details of the five shortlisted bidders with the successful venture to be announced by the end of the year. The...
Indian Supreme Court judgement a victory for tribals
The human rights group, Amnesty International has welcomed the Supreme Court judgement on bauxite mining at Niyamgiri Hills in Odisha’s Kalahandi district. Amnesty said , SC’s ruling that the indigenous (Adivasi) communities will have the final decision on plans for a bauxite mine by a subsidiary...
Cape Alumina short-listed to bid for Aurukun bauxite deposit in Queensland
Cape Alumina and its partners have been short-listed by the Queensland Government to tender for the development of the world-class Aurukun bauxite deposit in western Cape York. The company is working with Singapore-listed Noble Group and Australia’s largest dedicated bulk and general stevedoring...
RUSAL may downscale bauxite investment in Berbice River
The Russian bauxite company – RUSAL – is reportedly expressing frustration at efforts by some elements to “extort” money from them for the use of about 300 acres of land in Hururu village, Berbice River. The company reportedly reached an agreement with the community village council to pay millions...
Indian Governments adopting dual standards regarding bauxite mining issue
The Centre and State Governments are adopting dual standards regarding the bauxite mining issue.The illegal approvals given and the agreements made in the past should be cancelled, said the speakers at the two-day Adivasi Adhikar Rashtriya Manch conference, which began on Saturday. The meeting also...
Indian Supreme Court leaves Vedanta's fate in tribal deity's hands
The Supreme Court on Thursday linked survival of Vedanta's alumina refinery and bauxite mining project in Rayagada and Kalahandi districts of Odisha with protection of Dongria and Kutia Kondh tribes' culture and right to worship the 'Niyam Raja' deity, a hilltop just 10 km from the mining area. "If...
Yankuang Resources Pty Ltd unable to meet cash calls from BAJV
Perth-based bauxite explorer and developer, Bauxite Resources Ltd advises that its 70% partner in the Bauxite Alumina Joint Venture, Yankuang Resources Pty Ltd, has been unable to meet a number of cash calls from the BAJV Manager, and as a consequence BRL has determined that it is in the interests...
Vedanta still pleading for bauxite
Vedanta Aluminium bosses are pleading with the Odisha State Government to get the bauxite flowing so that it can re-open its Lanjigarh alumina refinery, after a delegation from the Kalahandi and Rayagada districts told the Kalahandi collector and district magistrate that the plant should resume...
Energy Minister to update on Alpart and Kirkvine reopening
Energy Minister, Phillip Paulwell, is to report to the country on an energy solution to facilitate the reopening of the Alpart and Kirkvine bauxite plants when he speaks in the 2013-2014 Sectoral Debate. For months, the Government has been engaged in negotiations with Russian-based aluminium...
Guangxi approves three bauxite prospecting surveys
Guangxi’s Land and Resources Office recently approved three bauxite prospecting projects in its jurisdiction: trihydrate bauxite in Dingdun Village, Long’an County (general survey), bauxite in Maling Township, Hengxian County (detailed survey), and bauxite in Changzhai Village, Hengxian County...
Signature campaign seeks restarting of Vedanta refinery
Vedanta Aluminium Limited has once again requested the State Government to ensure bauxite supply to its Lanjigarh facilities in Kalahandi district which has been shut down due to non-availability of raw materials. “You are aware that the closure of refinery since December 5, 2012 has impacted the...
