Metro Mining builds bauxite momentum with record output, lower costs and broader sales
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...
Ghana’s 920Mt of bauxite reserves catch global investors’ attention amid aluminium push
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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Ghana Government to decide on prime investors for Bauxite mining by 2020
The President of Ghana H.E. Akufo-Addo announced that by the end of 2020, Ghana Integrated Aluminium Development Corporation (GIADEC) would decide to enter a joint venture partnership with investors for exploration of Ghana’s bauxite reserves. During the 2020 State of the Nation Address in...
First Bauxite LLC in Guyana considers building an Aluminium Smelter: Provided Natural gas sourced electricity supplied
First Bauxite LLC, a natural resource company engaged in the exploration and development of bauxite deposits in Guyana, South America has indicated to the Government of Guyana, regarding its intention to build an aluminium smelter in the country, provided natural gas, a cheap source of electricity...
Minim-Martap and Ngaoundal Bauxite deposits: The new estimate says Cameroon could be the largest deposits in the world
The Australian junior mining company Canyon Resources provided the initial results of the final exploration phase, which was launched in September’18 of Minim-Martap and Ngaoundal bauxite deposits in northern Cameroon. Camalco, the Cameroonian subsidiary of Canyon resources, pinpointed 65 bauxite...
Gulkula Mining receives Performance Standard provisional certification from ASI
Gulkula Mining Company has reportedly received a Performance Standard provisional certification from Aluminium Stewardship Initiative (ASIS) for its bauxite mine operation on the traditional lands of the Yolngu people in East Arnhem in Australia’s Northern Territory. Gulkula commenced operations in...
Minim-Martap Bauxite deposit to be ready for exploitation in 2022: Canyon Resources declares
The long-awaited exploitation of Minim-Martap Bauxite deposit in Northern Cameroon could be started in 2022. This wish has been rendered by the Project Manager, James Durant in Minim on 13 th February’20. The project its hand over by the Cameroonian government to Australian junior mining company...
Guinea Alumina Corporation works to praise environmental standards
Guinea Alumina Corporation (GAC) has a mining concession of 690 km2, in the region of Boké, a city located in the northwest of Guinea, exactly in the locality of Tinguilinta. To meet the standards of the International Labor Organization and those of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the...
GAC receives PFI’s “Multilateral Deal of the Year” award for its ground-breaking project financing
Guinea Alumina Corporation has been honoured with the Project Finance International’s prestigious global “Multilateral Deal of the Year” award for its ground-breaking project financing. The news came after EGA officially announced the receipt of the award by both EGA and GAC’s Management at PFI’s...
Southern Cross Electrical Engineering secures contract to complete refurbishment of Rio’s Gove Peninsula mine
Southern Cross Electrical Engineering has reportedly secured a contract of $18 million to complete refurbishment work at Rio Tinto’s Gove Peninsula bauxite mine in the North East Arnhem Land site. The work also includes isolating and re-routing electrical and hydraulic services to the mine. The...
Montenegrin mine in Poland push up Bauxite output in 2019
Bumech signed a 29-year contract with Montenegro’s Uniprom Metals for bauxite extractions at Niksic mine. Nikšić represents the largest bauxite reserve in Montenegro and one of the largest in Europe, having estimated reserves of 135.2 million tonnes. Bumech has raised the production of bauxite by...
RUSAL publishes the decision to suspend its Guyana Bauxite mining operations
Rusal, one of the colossal aluminium producers in the world publishes the decision to suspend its bauxite mining operations in Guyana, as the unrest continues. The company has delivered written notices of termination to 326 employees. Following the illegitimate and serious actions, that has gone...
Jamaica’s Bauxite mining is turning around: Approximately 20.82 million tonnes exported 2017-19
The island country Jamaica’s bauxite and alumina industry is retaking its place on the world stage and investors are showing a positive trend to explore Jamaica’s bauxite mines. Bauxite mining is considered as the star performer of Jamaica’s economy. The latest example of Jamaican mining is the...
Labour Ministry meeting with BCGI results in arbitration; Workers can resume duty
The Ministry of Social Protection’s Department of Labour’s meeting with the management of Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc. (BCGI) on Friday, January 31, resulted in arbitration. Workers are thus, can return to work now under the three below mentioned conditions as communicated to the company and...
Labour Ministry summons BCGI management to disccus the layoff of 288 workers
The Ministry of Social Protection’s Department of Labour, on Thursday afternoon, reportedly requested the management of Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc. (BCGI) to be present in a meeting on Friday to discuss the layoff of 288 employees last week. Junior Minister of Social Protection Keith Scott has...
Mines Environment & Mineral Conservation Week 2019-20: Utkal Alumina Celebrates at Baphlimali Bauxite Mines
The Doraguda based, in Rayagada district of Orissa, a fully owned company of Hindalco, the metals flagship company of Aditya Birla Group’s alumina refinery Utkal Alumina International (UAIL), having its mines at Baphlimali with reserves lasting for over 25 years and a captive co-generation power...
Noranda Bauxite confirms 3.8 million tonnes export in 2019, showers positive update
The Jamaican bauxite mining operation of New Day Aluminium, Noranda Bauxite, declares that bauxite exports from its St. Ann facility were accounted for approximately 3.8 million wet metric tonnes for the calendar year 2019. The bauxite exports covered sales to its sister Alumina refinery, Noranda...
Australian Bauxite Ltd eyes at Aluminium Fluoride production plant in Bell Bay, Tasmania
Tasmania’s bauxite miner has declared a key appointment as it is moving ahead in regards to the production of booming aluminium fluoride through an unprecedented refining process. The Australian Bauxite Limited project is eyeing to steer the production plant at Bell Bay, north-west of Launceston....
Australian Bauxite Ltd published Quarterly Report & Activity statement for three months to 31st December’19
The Australian Bauxite Ltd has published the quarterly report and activity statement for the period to 31 st December 2019. Cement-grade bauxite was loaded and shipped from bell bay in early June was 32,477 tonnes. Sales of fertilizer grade bauxite from Bald Hill are on-going to plan, despite...
Ghana’s debt-to-GDP ratio speculated tip-off to 65% by 2023, incorporating Sinohydro Bauxite barter deal
Ghana’s debt will rise predominantly due to an annual assumption of 2% of GDP in the form of contingent liabilities. The disbursals under the $2 billion financing deal with Sinohydro, an infrastructure financing deal that has been an ancillary by country’s yet-to-be-mined and refined bauxite...
