Metro Mining's Bauxite Hills operation delivered record quarterly production as lower unit costs and a broader customer base strengthen its growth profile. Metro Mining is building momentum at its Bauxite Hills bauxite mine in Queensland, with record quarterly output, lower unit costs and improving...
International investor interest in Ghana’s bauxite industry has intensified, with Coal India becoming the latest overseas company to evaluate opportunities in the country as it seeks to diversify beyond coal and secure mineral assets abroad. The Indian state-controlled miner’s interest remains at...
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Indian aluminium giants like Hindalco and Vedanta have shown interest in joining hands with Coal India Limited as equity partners for the proposed integrated greenfield aluminium project in Odisha. The news comes on Wednesday, July 6, after two officials aware of the matter reported, stating that...
The senior presidential advisor to the Akufo-Addo Administration, Senior Minister Yaw Osafo Maafo stated that Ghana can generate 100,000 jobs from a $10 billion loan agreement with China. In 2017, the Chinese government committed a sum of $15 billion to support developmental projects in Ghana. The...
The global aluminium industry experienced several electrifying events in June 2022. Century Aluminium’s Hawesville smelter, the largest aluminium producer in North America producing military-grade aluminium, employing over 600 staff has decided to idle its smelter due to soaring energy prices. The...
The Australian exploration and mining company, Metro Mining has announced its plans to augment the annual bauxite production capacity at the Bauxite Hills Mine from 4 million to 7 million wet metric tonnes per annum (M WMT pa) in 2023. The Bauxite Hills Mine has been operating in Western Cape York...
Metro Mining Limited (Metro) has been registered as the latest member of the Australian Aluminium Council, representing Australia’s bauxite mining, alumina refining, aluminium smelting and downstream processing industries. Globally acknowledged Western Cape York bauxite region in Queensland houses...
Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA), one of the leading producers of aluminium in the world, has unlocked a new development, which will result in all bauxite residues produced in the UAE being re-used in the UAE, due to significant R&D advances. “We have already achieved important success with other...
The Minim Martap bauxite project in Cameroon has undergone a Bankable Feasibility Study (BFS), determining that it has a primary twenty-year mine life, with the endeavour estimated to produce high-grade bauxite worth 6.4 million tonnes per year. The CEO of Canyon, Jean Sebastien Boutet exclaimed:...
The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has been urged to reject South32's plans to expand its Worsley bauxite and alumina project in Western Australia’s (WA) South West which would clear more than 4000 hectares of native vegetation. The updated plan, which the EPA made available for public...
Coal India Limited (CIL), an Indian government-owned coal mining and refining corporation, is reportedly striving to decarbonise its operations, following the government’s energy transition push and net zero carbon emission target by 2070. Therefore, CIL is diversifying into aluminium production,...
On 13 th June 2022, Guinea’s second sizeable bauxite mining company, Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinée (CBG) stated that alumina refineries will be built in Guinea in the coming years; however, these projects demand substantial investments and are complex by nature. The above statement of CBG has...
Ghana, popularly known for abundant bauxite reserves, is now reportedly aiming at creating an integrated aluminium industry in the country, said Ghana Lands and Natural Resources minister Samuel Jinapor on Monday, June 13. With that aim, Ghana is running campaigns and trying its best to find a...
On 10 th June 2022, the Guinea govt. has stated that it has given the bauxite mining companies doing business in the nation another ten days timeline to present the proposals for building alumina refineries , which they were supposed to attain by the end of May 2022. Guinea, one of the world’s...
The world’s largest bauxite exporter and with huge reserves of other minerals, Guinea has made public the infrastructure development of a $300 million phased Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) provision and distribution network which incorporates a full-service LNG receiving terminal, a liquefaction plant...
Hydro Rein, a renewable energy solutions provider, and Macquarie Asset Management’s Green Investment Group (GIG), a specialist green investor, have signed an agreement to form a joint venture company Feijão. The company will build and operate a combined wind and solar power project, with a capacity...
The Andhra Pradesh state government has achieved a major victory against Ras-Al-Khaimah Investment Authority’s (RAKIA) $273 million damage claim by over cancellation of the Bauxite Supply Agreement (BSA) inked by AP Mineral Development Corporation in October 2008. RAKIA, Penna Group and the Andhra...
The Finnish industrial machinery company focusing on providing technology and services for mining, Metso Outotec and the national science agency of Australia, CSIRO, have joined hands to sign a treaty delivering SwirlFlow agitation technology for the bauxite and alumina sector beyond the Chinese...
According to a report published on Friday, May 13, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between the Chhattisgarh Council of Science and Technology (CGCOST), Jawaharlal Nehru Aluminium Research Development and Design Centre (JNARDDC), and Ministry of Mines on Wednesday, May 11, for...
New mineral reserves costing over US$ 28.7 billion have been unearthed in Iran by data submitted through the Iranian Mines and Mining Industries Development and Renovation Organization (IMIDRO). Rigorous mining expeditions for eight years in Iran have accumulated in IMIDRO’s latest exploration data...
