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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Guinea, China in talks over bauxite mine
Guinea is in advanced talks with state-owned China Power Investment to develop a bauxite mine,deep water port and a power plant in the West African state, Guinean government sources said. One source, who asked not to be named, said the project, which is in Boffa, some 120 km (75 miles) west of the...
Some VND1.6 trillion to upgrade bauxite route
The Directorate for Roads of Vietnam under the Ministry of Transport has submitted to the Government a plan for upgrading the alumina transport route at an estimated cost of about VND1.6 trillion, or some US$770 million. The bauxite route, linking the alumina factory Tan Rai in Lam Dong Province...
Lindeners cry for relief from bauxite dust
A group of Lindeners are calling for relief from a dust situation caused by the Bosai bauxite plant in the once-thriving mining town. Several residents, including Regional Councillor Judith Rogers, were present at the AFC’s weekly news conference on Wednesday in Georgetown. “The matter was raised...
Chongqing Bauxite Conservation Reaches 0.113 Billion Ton
According to the current research of Bauxite resource utilization, Chongqing bauxite conservation amounts to 0.113 billion ton which provides resource guarantee for its aluminum industry base construction. From 2007 to August of 2010, Ministry of Land and Resource proceeds with an overall...
Final hearing on OMC plea posted to January 2012
The Supreme Court on Tuesday posted for January 2012 final hearing on an application and related petitions from the Orissa Mining Corporation challenging a July 11 order withdrawing environmental clearance for a bauxite project. A Bench of justices R.V. Raveendran and A.K. Patnaik posted the matter...
SC refuses early hearing to Orissa govt on Vedanta case
The Supreme Court today refused to accord an early hearing to Orissa government's plea challenging the Centre's decision to withdraw environmental clearance given to Vedanta group firm Sterlite for its bauxite mining project in Niyamgiri Hills. Brushing aside the state government's plea for an...
China Power Investment Aims to Spend $6 Billion on Guinea Bauxite Refinery
China Power Investment Corp. will spend $6 billion to develop alumina refineries at Boffa in Guinea, according to a statement from the president's office. The Beijing-based energy company will also build a port to remove ore from the area, President Alpha Conde's office said in the statement,...
China Power Investment Aims to Spend $6 Billion on Guinea Bauxite Refinery
China Power Investment Corp. will spend $6 billion to develop bauxite refineries at Boffa in Guinea, according to a statement from the president's office. The Beijing-based energy company will also build a port to remove ore from the area, President Alpha Conde's office said in the statement,...
Bauxite Resources Limited (ASX:BAU) Increases Global Bauxite Resource By 35% To 33.4Mt
Perth-based bauxite explorer and developer, Bauxite Resources Ltd (ASX:BAU) ("BRL" or "The Company") is pleased to announce an update to the bauxite resource base in the North Darling Range area. Resource modelling has been completed on recent drilling undertaken on the Cardea prospect that has...
Niyamgiri: MoEF says rejection of forest nod as per law
With Orissa Mining Corporation Limited (OMCL) claiming that the rejection of forest clearance to its bauxite mining project at Niyamgiri hills is aimed as a rebuff to the Supreme Court’s green signal for the billion-dollar venture, the Ministry of Environment and Forests met the charge head-on. In...
ENRC - Alumina production in first half-year 2011
Alumina production totaled 813 thousand tonnes. Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation is engaged in mining and processing chrome, manganese and iron ore, smelting ferroalloys, processing bauxite for the production of alumina and aluminium.
ENRC - Bauxite production in first half-year 2011
Bauxite extraction reached 2.689 million tonnes. Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation is engaged in mining and processing chrome, manganese and iron ore, smelting ferroalloys, processing bauxite for the production of alumina and aluminium.
Rio Tinto Alcan looks at Cairns training centre
MINING giant Rio Tinto Alcan is assessing sites for a recruitment and training centre in Cairns for its $1 billion-plus Weipa bauxite expansion project. Rio Tinto Alcan Weipa operations general manager Jo-Anne Scarini said the company wanted Cairns to share in the economic benefits the project...
WINDALCO goes to court
The case involving bauxite company WINDALCO regarding allegations that it released a noxious substance into the Rio Cobre in St Catherine will begin today. The matter will be heard in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate’s Court. WINDALCO was brought before the court by the National Environment and...
Local recruitments for bauxite
RECRUITMENT of locals to work at the bauxite site in Nawailevu Village in Bua has begun, confirmed Commissioner Northern Lieutenant Colonel Ilai Moceica. The recruitment, he said, began with those in the security department and allowed people around Vanua Levu to grab this opportunity.
Chinese miners lack work permits at bauxite mine in Vietnam
Nearly two-thirds of labourers working at one of two controversial Chinese-run bauxite mines in Vietnam's Central Highlands do not have permits, local media said Friday. Up to 190 of the 312 Chinese labourers at Nhan Co Aluminum Plant in Dak Nong province are working without the right paperwork,...
China not to mine bauxite in Vietnam
Vietnam does not have a policy of allowing Chinese investors in bauxite projects in the Central Highlands, President Truong Tan Sang has said.
6Mt bauxite resource declared in NSW
ASX-listed Australian Bauxite has reported a maiden resource of six-million tons at its Guyara project, in New South Wales. The company said on Monday that the bauxite was relatively consistent in quality, demonstrated by the fact that around 87% of the 71 bauxite intercepts were classified as high...
