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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Vedanta plans capex of $300 million for FY20
Vedanta Ltd has proposed to invest $250-300 million in the next fiscal for ramping up the alumina refinery capacity at Lanjigarh. The company has planned to expand the capacity to six million tonnes per annum from its current 1 million tonnes. Metals and mining giant Vedanta expects to recover the...
Moratorium on bauxite mining in Malaysia to be extended until March 31
The Malaysian government has once again reportedly decided to extend the moratorium until March 31, 2019, and thus, the wait continues for bauxite mining and export activities in Pahang. The Water, Land and Natural Resources Ministry announced that this extension of moratorium followed an agreement...
Metro Mining achieves 2018 production guidance, ships 2 million tonnes of bauxite
Metro Mining Ltd has achieved its production guidance for 2018 and has shipped 2,037,106 Wet Metric Tonnes (WMT) from its Bauxite Hills mine. The 33rd and final vessel for 2018, MV Sadlers Wells, completed loading on the 28 December and has departed for China. Despite suspending ship loading...
Bauxite Industry Recap 2018: A competitive year with plethora of expansion and investment
The bauxite market in the year 2018 had been found following a steady pace. There were some developments and expansions on existing mines, while some notable deals and new projects crossed the path across the world. The price in the China market also displayed steadfast growth throughout the year,...
Windalco bauxite plant workers stage protest over unpaid retroactive payments
The Windalco bauxite plant in Ewarton, St. Catherine, is reportedly witnessing a growing tension between its management and the production workers over outstanding retroactive salary payments. The workers, represented by the Union of Clerical, Administrative and Supervisory Employees (UCASE), even...
Minority plead to protect Atewa Forest as Sinohydro bauxite deal due to start next month
Kwabena Mintah Akandoh, MP for Juaboso and Deputy Minister for Lands and Resources, is pleading with the government to save the Atewa Forest from destruction as China’s Sinohydro Corporation prepares to build roads under the $2 billion bauxite barter deal, according to a report by MyJoyOnline....
Aurum Exploration Ltd. aims at securing buyer and resuming bauxite shipment in early 2019
According to a report, Aurum Exploration (Fiji) Limited is eyeing to resume bauxite shipment in the first half of 2019. It is thus, looking for options in terms of securing buyers for its bauxite resource. In an interview, the Minister for Lands and Mineral Resources Ashneel Sudhakar said...
Ghana President assures the bauxite barter deal with China means no compromise with Ghana's sovereignty
Ghana President Akufo Addo has assured his countrymen that the infrastructure deal with China in lieu of bauxite does not mean a compromise with Ghana’s sovereignty. He considers it to be a pure business transaction and the Asian giant is not going to take over various sectors of Ghan’s economy....
Balco’s Mainpat Bauxite Mines celebrates Annual Safety Function
Balco’s Mainpat Bauxite Mines under Sarguja district has reportedly celebrated Annual Safety Function with a lot of grandeur. Besides participating in multiple activities like quiz, drawing, planting trees, and essay writing, Balco officers, employees, and contract workers took an oath to adopt a...
Canyon starts drilling to examine recently-identified high-grade bauxite plateau at Minim Martap
Above a month after identifying a cluster of high-grade, low-containment bauxite within the existing resource at Minim Martap Project in November, Canyon Resources Limited has now reportedly started initial aircore drilling and exploration campaign at the site. Canyon’s own aircore drill rig and a...
Marcventures reports 73.2 million tonnes of bauxite reserve
Marcventures Holdings, Inc. reported that the company’s Bauxite Mining Project in 6 municipalities of Western Samar contains 73.2 million Wet Metric Tonnes (WMT) of measured and indicated resources of bauxite. In a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange, Marcventures said the deposit could...
Australian Bauxite confirms sale of 30,000 tonnes of cement-grade bauxite
Australian Bauxite Limited has confirmed a sale of 30,000 tonnes of bauxite from its Bald Hill Bauxite Project, Campbell Town, Northern Tasmania. The company announced through its press release that it had been the successful tenderer for its next sale of seaborne cement-grade bauxite to be...
Week in Review: A summary update on global bauxite sector
Bauxite industry has witnessed a number of developments last week. Here is a round-up of the most important news stories on the bauxite sector from the week gone by: Construction of EGA’s bauxite mining project reaches 75 per cent The construction of Emirates Global Aluminium’s (EGA) bauxite mining...
Brazilian expert study shows Hydro Alunorte can produce at full capacity
Brazilian expert study shows that there was no overflow from Alunorte’s residue deposit areas DRS1 and DRS2 in February 2018. The study also concludes that Alunorte, from a water management perspective, can produce at its nominal capacity of 6.3 million tonnes of alumina a year. Hydro announced...
Rio Tinto’s first bauxite shipment arrives in Gladstone
The first shipment of bauxite from Rio Tinto’s $2.6 billion Amrun bauxite project in Queensland has arrived at the Port of Gladstone. More than 80,000 tonnes of bauxite were loaded onto the vessel RTM Weipa for departure from the Western Cape York Peninsula on December 3, achieved six weeks ahead...
Construction of EGA’s bauxite mining project in Guinea reaches 75 per cent
The construction of Emirates Global Aluminium’s (EGA) bauxite mining project in the Republic of Guinea has reached almost 75 per cent, reported the company itself. Developed by EGA’s subsidiary Guinea Alumina Corp (GAC), the total budget of the project is around US$1.4 billion, the largest...
President Alpha Conde officially inaugurates Alufer Mining's Bel Air bauxite mine in Guinea
Guinean President Alpha Conde has officially inaugurated the Bel Air mine in Guinea, Alufer Mining Limited announced through a press release. The Minister of Mines, members of Parliament, Ambassadors from the UK and US and local dignitaries were present during the inauguration. The president...
Wirtgen surface miners benefiting Guinea bauxite miners with 25 machines in operation
Wirtgen, a German company in the field of road and mine machinery says its surface miners are helping bauxite producers in Guinea to explore the country’s high quality bauxite reserves. 25 of its machines are now in operation in the West Africa country. Wirtgen supplies surface miners for the...
