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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Chinalco Obtained Project Approval of Hedong Bauxite Miner's Right
Department of Land and Resources of Henan Province published that Chinalco obtained the project approval of Hedong Bauxite Miner's Right. It is learned that this bauxite was located in Baofeng County, Ping Dingshan City, Henan Province with 100 thousand ton/year of production scale. Chinalco Henan...
Bauxite mine generates income for many
APART from being an employment provider for most people in the Northern Division, the bauxite mine in Bua also generated farming ideas for villagers. The villagers of Nawailevu and nearby villages have embarked on vegetable farming not only for their own use but for commercial purposes as well. Bua...
BOSAI says on target to complete dust collector system
The management of BOSAI Minerals Group (Guyana) Inc. (BMGGI) is optimistic that the company will complete at least one of two dust collectors to be installed on kilns 13 and 14 in the bauxite plant to significantly reduce the dust emitted into the Linden community and its environs. A team of...
Maoists ask legislators to oppose bauxite mining
Hyderabad: Maoists Wednesday urged legislators in Andhra Pradesh to pass a resolution opposing the proposed bauxite mining in tribal areas. The banned Communist Party of India-Maoist has put up banners and posters and distributed pamphlets in some villages of Choudupalli tribal area asking the...
Maoists up in arms against mining project in tribal areas
Maoists have stepped up their campaign against the proposed bauxite mining in north coastal Andhra Pradesh, with the extremists asking lawmakers to pass a resolution in the state Legislative Assembly pledging not to take up mining in the tribal areas. The outlawed outfit, CPI (Maoist), put up...
RUSAL bauxite company to stop vacation allowance – WPA
Workers at Bauxite Company of Guyana Incorporated, mainly owned by RUSAL, are to get thinner pay-packets whenever they are about to go on vacation because the company has decided to stop paying them vacation allowance. After numerous attempts throughout yesterday RUSAL officials could not be...
BUA bauxite mining project inspection
THE inspection of the progress of work at the bauxite mining project in Bua will be conducted tomorrow by the Department of Mineral Resources. Director Mineral Resources Malakai Finau said yesterday officials would visit the site at Nawailevu for inspection of the jetty and the digging of the...
Bauxite mining big issue in Agency area: AP Speaker
Araku Valley (Visakhapatnam), Jan 10 (PTI) Andhra Pradesh Assembly Speaker, N Manohar, today assured that he would take up the issue of bauxite mining in Agency area of Visakhapatnam district with the Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy. Speaking at an orientation programme `Girijan...
Bauxite Mining in Australia
Australia is the leading producer of bauxite and alumina globally as well as the fifth largest aluminum producer in the world. Demand for bauxite is growing at a faster rate than the growth in global industrial production. In the emerging economies of Asia and India, bauxite demand is particularly...
Anrak in talks with Glencore to source bauxite ore
Anrak Aluminium Limited (AAL) which is in trouble due to moratorium imposed on clearances for bauxite mining in scheduled areas of Visakhapatnam, is reportedly planning to source bauxite ore through Glencore – world's leading commodity trader. AAL, floated by Penna Group and Ras Al Khaimah...
Barge arrives for first soil shipment
A Barge from China arrived in the country yesterday to take back soil from a bauxite mine in Bua. The barge which anchored at Malau, outside Labasa Town, will take to China the soil already stockpiled at Nawailevu in Bua. Director of Mineral Resources Malakai Finau confirmed that soil from the...
Bauxite Mining in Vizag: Central Team Faces Wrath of Tribals
“Lay off our lands” -- this was the unambiguous message delivered to the central government by the tribals in the Agency area of Visakhapatnam recently. The entire Agency area observed a 48-hour total bandh on December 20 and 21 opposing the visit of the central team of union environment and...
Bauxite mining starts
WORK at the bauxite mine site at Nawailevu in Bua has started. A team from the Commissioner Northern's office visited the site on Tuesday to inspect the progress of the mining work. Divisional planning officer northern Alipate Bolalevu said construction work was progressing well. "The mining...
Govt face oppisition from locals in Vizag bauxite
Police and district officials are worried about local tribals in the Vizag Agency, ahead of the proposed three day visit of first time legislators to the Vizag agency tracts. A total of 136 MLAs elected for the first time are scheduled to visit Araku and Ananthagiri Agency mandals between January 9...
GMDC gets Gujarat government's nod for 3 joint ventures
The state-run Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation (GMDC) on Wednesday said three joint venture projects proposed by it had been approved by the Gujarat government. "We have got government's nod recently to set up three JV projects. The land has already been acquired for two of these projects by...
Vedanta's Orissa alumina refinery facing bauxite shortage
The one million tonne per annum capacity refinery at Lanjigarh, some 600 km from here, has been running at about 50 percent of its capacity since it was commissioned in August 2007. There are multiple reasons for this, Kumar said. "Several mines in Orissa and Andhra Pradesh have stopped operations...
300,000 tonnes of bauxite deposits found in Chhattisgarh
A new reserve of about 300,000 tonnes of bauxite ore has been found in Chhattisgarh's Maoist stronghold of Bastar, mining officials said Wednesday. "We found about 300,000 tonnes of bauxite reserves spread in an area of 20 hectares at village Kudarwahi in Keshkal area in Bastar district," an...
Prospective bauxite explorer signs LOI with buyer
Mining company First Bauxite Corporation has signed a Letter of Intent with an unidentified company which could see the miner supplying bauxite to that company when it starts producing around 2014. In a statement last week, First Bauxite announced that it has “signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to...
