Rio Tinto adds Aurukun's 8 tpa bauxite opportunity to growing Cape York pipeline
The acquisition gives Rio Tinto control of a major undeveloped Cape York resource as it expands its existing Weipa operations and advances new mining areas. Rio Tinto is expanding its Cape York bauxite portfolio by acquiring the Aurukun bauxite project from Glencore and Mitsubishi, adding a...
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...
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Troubled alumina maker MAL cuts off 250 jobs
Hungarian alumina maker MAL is laying off about 250 people as it ceases processing its own bauxite, liquidator Judit Kemerle Szego said yesterday. About 72% of the layoffs are skilled workers. The layoffs will take place by next May, she added. MAL earlier laid off 183 people at its bauxite mine in...
After gold scam, Dominican Customs shortens leash on bauxite exports
Customs director Fernando Fernandez on Friday said the agency inspects the bauxite shipped from the port town Cabo Rojo, after the experience with the Canadian miner Barrick Gold Corp, whose exports of doré were retained several times at Las Americans Airport on irregularities. The official, who...
Brazil Exports, August 2013: Bauxite down as buyers reduce purchases
Bauxite exports from Brazil fell 25.6% year-on-year in August to 662,647 tonnes, with the USA and Ireland reducing purchases. The exports were also down sharply from 949,860 tonnes shipped in July 2013. Export revenue in August stood at $27.02 million, compared with $38.75 million a year earlier....
Maoists hinder bauxite supply to Hindalco unit
Suspected Maoists have forcibly stopped the supply of bauxite from Red-hit Latehar district to Hindalco Industries' Renukut plant in Uttar Pradesh, considered one of the biggest aluminum factories in Asia. A group of rebels attacked a railway sliding site in Richughuta locality under Latehar police...
Bauxite Resources shares rise after resource upgrade for the Fortuna bauxite deposit in WA
Bauxite Resources shares are set to rise today after increasing resources at its Fortuna bauxite deposit in the Darling Range, Western Australia by 47% to 39.5 million tonnes at 37.3% AI2O3. This comes as Chinese bauxite demand increases to 95 million tonnes by 2022 from the 38Mt in 2012, according...
Niyamgiri tribes get support from Congress vice-president
In a move to reclaim his party’s traditional support base among tribals, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi is expected to visit Odisha later this month to meet villagers who recently rejected a proposal to mine bauxite from the Niyamgiri hills. “(Rahul) Gandhi will meet the tribals and celebrate...
China's bauxite imports rise to 3-month high in July
China’s imports of bauxite rose to a 3-month high in July as companies accelerated stockpiling of the raw material before Indonesia’s possible ban on exports. Inbound shipments surged by 370.9% year-on-year to 6.5 million tonnes in July, and totaled 39.2 million tonnes in the first seven months, up...
Last gram sabha on Niyamgiri bauxite mining to be held on Monday at Jarapa village
Last gram sabha on Niyamgiri bauxite mining issue to be held Monday at Jarapa village under Muniguda block of Rayagada district. The state government already conducted gram sabha 11 villages where villagers said no to mining on Niyamgiri. For last Gram Sabha the district administration arranged all...
Compensation paid to Harita Bauxite disaster victims
Local media in Myanmar report Singapore’s Ocean Sentinels Ship Management has handed over around $1m as compensation to Myanmar seafarers and families involved in the Harita Bauxite ship sinking in February, in which 15 people perished. The Harita Bauxite sank in Philippine waters on its way to...
Brazil’s reports sharp increase in bauxite export in July
Brazil’s exports of bauxite presented a sharp increase in July, whereas alumina and aluminium trade fell, according to the country’s trade ministry. All transactions were on a fob basis. Bauxite Bauxite exports from Brazil shot up by 218% year-on-year in July to 949,860 tonnes after increased...
China's nonferrous metals sector hurt by excess smelting capacity: NDRC
China's nonferrous metals sector struggled from excess intermediate smelting capacity in the first half of 2013, compared with smaller upstream and downstream operations, the National Development and Reform Commission said in a report Tuesday. "There's a surplus in smelting capacities, with a lack...
Jamaica's bauxite, alumina fate reliant on energy sources
A reliance on expensive, imported energy has temporarily shuttered Jamaica’s bauxite alumina industry. But foreign operators who are working there hope to slash costs and kick-start production once more. Both United Co Rusal and Alcoa are looking at alternatives to the costly oil they are forced to...
Most of Dominican Republic’s bauxite exported to China
Dominican Republic exported 300,000 tons of wet bauxite in two shipments out of the port at Cabo Rojo, Pedernales (southwest) in July, a resumption expected to increase government revenue for the rest of the year and provide more jobs in the country’s poorest region. A Mines Agency (DGM) report...
After the failure at Niyamgiri, Vedanta is eyeing the bauxite mine at Amarkantak
With more than half the gram sabhas in Orissa's Rayagada and Kalahandi districts opposing bauxite mining in the Niyamgiri hills, Vedanta Aluminium Ltd is working on a two-pronged back-up plan to source the key raw material. The company is understood to have identified 25-26 small closed mines owned...
No solution in sight for Vedanta's Niyamgiri bauxite mining project
Amid the overwhelming opposition to the Niyamgiri bauxite mining project at the recently held gram sabhas, Vedanta Aluminium is in a quandary on a sustainable alternative for its one-million-tonne Lanjigarh refinery. Though the company has applied for prospecting licences and mining leases at 26...
Third village council too rejects mining project in Niyamgiri
Continuing the opposition to bauxite mining in the Niyamgiri hills, the third palli (gram) sabha held here in Trilochanpur panchayat adopted a unanimous resolution on Tuesday not to allow digging of bauxite ore from their area. Amid heavy bandobust, the gram sabha, home to 22 OBC families, repeated...
China’s bauxite imports jumped 29.75% in 2013
China imported 6.08 million mt of bauxite in June. YTD imports through June totaled 32.71 million mt, up 29.75% YoY, according to China Customs. China’s imports of Indonesian bauxite rose 2.95% YoY to 21.395 million mt in H1, 2013. Imports of Australian bauxite jumped 56.99% YoY to 6.68 million mt,...
More shipments of bauxite expected for China
More shipments of bauxite are expected for China if the mining is not affected by the weather. Aurum Exploration Limited mine manager Basilio Vanuaca said there were only four shipments so far this year. The latest shipment was last week. Vanuaca said the landowners have received the benefits...
