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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ASI issues certification to Hydro’s Paragominas bauxite mine and Alunorte alumina refinery
Aluminium Stewardship Initiative announced that it issued certification to Hydro’s Paragominas bauxite mine and Alunorte alumina refinery against the Performance Standards and the Chain of Custody Standard. The certification covers both the production sites and the alumina from Alunorte originating...
Rio Tinto temporarily suspends operations at its Gove bauxite mine for safety concerns
According to a recent report, the Anglo-Australian mining corporation, Rio Tinto, has temporarily suspended the operation at its Gove Operations bauxite mine last week after Electrical Trades Union (ETU) delegates discovered improper lighting condition at the ship loading facility. ETU Northern...
Canyon Resources appoints James Durrant as Project Development Manager for Minim Martap Bauxite Project
Canyon Resources Limited has announced the appointment of James Durrant as Project Development Manager for the Minim Martap Bauxite Project in Cameroon. James Durrant is an experienced operations leader, project developer and technical marketing manager bringing relevant industry experience from...
Noranda Bauxite organised expo on the theme 'agriculture meets mining' to demonstrate re-use of mined-out lands
Noranda Bauxite organised an Agriculture Education Industry Exposition at the Port Rhodes Sports Complex in Discovery Bay, St Ann, Jamaica on May 30 to demonstrate how agricultures and education sector can be developed and boosted by the bauxite industry. Bauxite industry in Jamaica has the...
Lindian Resources appoints experienced bauxite executive Shannon Green as managing director
Lindian Resources Limited has reportedly taken a new managing director on board, named Shannon Green, an experienced bauxite executive with more than 20 years of resource development and mining operations. He recently served Canyon Resources Limited as general manager, where he played an...
Metro Mining provides an update on operations at the Bauxite Hills Mine
Metro Mining Ltd has recommenced operations for the 2019 operating year and completed activities relating to the expansion of production at the Bauxite Hills Mine. The installation of duplicate screening infrastructure and integration of new 7,000t barges and tripleset trailers have resulted in a...
Nyinahin residents show resentment over Ghana Government’s plans to mine bauxite
Nyinahin residents and the surrounding communities in the Ashanti region in South Ghana believe that bauxite mining in that area will cause serious harm to their lives and thus, reportedly expressed dissatisfaction with the government’s aluminium ore mining plans. The residents claimed that the...
Metro Mining’s new director shows faith in company’s bauxite strategy
Metro Mining Limited’s new non-executive director Fiona Murdoch has reportedly demonstrated her faith in the company’s bauxite strategy while making a first purchase in the company of 150,000 ordinary shares on June 5 for the total value of $20,050. Murdoch has more than 28 years of experience in...
Noranda Bauxite wins appreciation for its use of reclaimed bauxite lands for farming and water storage in St Ann
Noranda Bauxite, located in St Ann, Jamaica has been appreciated by Mining Minister Robert Montague for optimum use of reclaimed bauxite lands for farming and the storage of water. Noranda Bauxite, now owned by Dada Holdings mines bauxite in St Ann and ships worldwide for both metallurgical and...
Ghana President Akufo-Addo assures bauxite mining in Atewa forest won’t affect environment
Ghana’s president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo assured that the government’s plan to mine bauxite in the Atewa forest, the country’s largest natural rainforest, would not harm the environment. He said this during the Sustainable Ocean Industries Conference in Ghana. He said that the latest mining...
Nalco attributes its lowest bauxite production cost for 29% hike in net profit and 21% in net sales during FY2019
The Navratna PSU under Ministry of Mines, National Aluminium Company, has reportedly issued its performance report of fiscal 2019 ended on March 31, registering the best financial and production performance in a decade. With the net profit of INR 1,732 crore, Nalco posted a 29 per cent jump from...
Australian Bauxite supplies YTD 120,000 tonnes of bauxite to its customers
Australian Bauxite Limited’s Chairman Paul Lennon addressed shareholders at its 10th Annual General Meeting (AGM). Paul Lennon said that company has sold 120,000 tonnes of bauxite to date to its repeat customers. Australian Bauxite has supplied 110,000 tonnes of cement-grade bauxite and 10,000...
US Forestry Service asks Ghana to be watchful about bauxite mining in Atewa forest reserve
The United States Forestry Service (USFS) has reportedly warned the Ghana government to be careful with its plan of bauxite mining in Atewa forest reserve, which is one of largest surviving rainforests in Ghana and considered to be one of the three areas for bauxite mining. The other areas are...
Bundaberg Port Authority to aide ABx to explore bauxite export opportunity in bulk tonnages
The Port Authority of Bundaberg will reportedly support Australian Bauxite Limited (ASX: ABx) in investigating the opportunity to export bauxite in bulk tonnages through the port itself. On May 29, the Port Authority and ABx signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that gives an access to the...
EGA's Guinea Alumina Corporation secures US$750 million loan for its Guinea bauxite project
Emirates Global Aluminium’s (EGA) wholly-owned subsidiary Guinea Alumina Corporation (GAC) has secured Guinea’s largest-ever project financing for its greenfield bauxite mining project in the West African country, which is expected to lift up Guinea’s economy significantly. The total US$750 million...
Rio Tinto’s Amrun bauxite mine recognised at QRC 2019 Indigenous Awards
Rio Tinto’s Amrun bauxite mine was announced winner of the ‘Best Company Indigenous Procurement Initiative Award’ at the Queensland Resources Council (QRC) Indigenous Awards in Brisbane on Monday. The $2.6 billion Amrun recently transitioned from a construction project to a fully operational...
Canyon Resources divides high-grade aluminium at Minim Martap Bauxite Project
According to the latest report, Canyon Resources Limited has divided high-grade aluminium up to 50 per cent at its Minim Martap Bauxite Project in Cameroon, where drilling is continuing to identify profiles with an increased depth of mineralisation. In some locations, drilling is being carried out...
Alunorte alumina and Senai Institute team up for studies on reuse of bauxite residue
Hydro announced that the company will invest R$5 million (USD 1.2 million/NOK 10.7 million) up to 2022 to study the reuse of bauxite residues, which takes place at Alunorte alumina refinery. The partnership between Alunorte and Senai Institute of Innovation in Mineral technologies (ISI-TM) could...
