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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Nalco’s bauxite mining gets temporary relief
The Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) of the Ministry of Environment and Forests granted temporary working permit to National Aluminium Company for operating the central and north block of Panchpatmaili mines in Koraput districts where bauxite mining was suspended on November 17 after the 30-year-old...
China Bauxite Imports Fall 31% After Indonesia Curbed Shipments
Chinese imports of bauxite fell 31 percent from a year earlier last month after Indonesia curbed mineral exports, restricting seaborne shipments of the ore used to make aluminum. Total deliveries to China slid to 2.14 million metric tons from 3.09 million tons in October 2011, according to customs...
Vedanta to get bauxite from external sources
Vedanta Aluminium Ltd , which is facing a challenge to run its refinery at Lanjigarh (Odisha) beyond December 5, hopes to get some bauxite from external sources in 2-3 days. “We are making all efforts to source bauxite from different sources. Hopefully, something will work out in 2-3 days”, said...
Bauxite dispute continues in the bauxite mining area in Bua, Fiji
A group of landowners in the bauxite mining area in Bua revealed in a survey that they were not part of a decision to begin the mining process. The survey conducted by the Bua Urban Youth Network in Nawailevu this year showed 20 per cent of respondents felt they were involved in the decision to...
Tribals protest Utkal Alumina mining in Kalahandi hill Odisha
As the tribal inhabitants were totally against mining in Niyamgiri hill despite the assurance by the State Government for peripheral development, it is now the locals of Thuamul Rampur block who have raised their voice against bauxite mining at Baflamali hill. Baflamali hill, spread over 1388.74...
Guyana’s bauxite industry on sound footing
The Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment through the Bauxite Unit of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) has responded to A Partnership for National Unity for misrepresenting a number of issues relating to bauxite development, particularly within Region Ten. The Ministry was...
Chinese bauxite imports from Indonesia fell to zero in June and July
Chinese bauxite imports from Indonesia fell to zero in June and July. Yet in 2011, China obtained almost 80 per cent of its imported bauxite from that country. And last year's quantity was double that obtained from Indonesia in 2009. Stephen Bartrop of Lime Street Capital poses the obvious...
Vedanta's Odisha refinery fate uncertain post 5th Dec
Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) is hopeful of running its 1-million-tonne refinery at Lanjigarh, Odisha, till December 5, buoyed by bauxite supplies from Gujarat Mineral Development Corp (GMDC) and Bharat Aluminium Co Ltd (Balco)’s Kawardah mines in Chhattisgarh. The aluminium firm on September 6 had...
Nalco to be allowed mining at Panchapatmali
With the 30-year lease of the Panchapatmali bauxite mines allotted to the National Aluminium Company (Nalco) due to expire on November 16 which is likely to force closure of its refinery at Damanjodi, the State Government has decided to allow continuation of the lease of bauxite mines for the...
Alumina Outlook might get influenced by Indonesian SC’s ruling against a ban on bauxite exports
In May of this year the Indonesian Government imposed a ban on the export of unprocessed raw materials but this week the Supreme Court of Indonesia set aside the ban, meaning the government is no longer permitted to interfere with the mineral exports industry. This conflict between the Supreme...
Indonesia's Supreme Court upheld challenge to Government ban on bauxite export
Alumina Limited notes press reports that Indonesia's Supreme Court has upheld a challenge to an Indonesian Government ban on the export of unprocessed minerals, including bauxite. The Company does not have further details of the Court decision or Indonesian government plans on this matter.
Four firms interested to buy GMDC's bauxite calcination plant
As many as four companies have evinced interest in buying bauxite calcination plant run by state-owned mining major Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation (GMDC). The plant having a production capacity of 50,000 tonnes per year is located in Kutch district. The state PSU had floated tenders to...
Nalco's Koraput bauxite mine may shut down soon
Public Sector National Aluminium Company seems to be heading for major crisis this month as the 30-year-old mining lease of company’s only bauxite mine in Koraput district is about to expire on November 16 with no signs of the lease getting renewed in the next couple of weeks. The central and north...
Vedanta may buy alumina from Nalco at export price
Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) whose smelter plant has run into a crisis as a fall-out of raw material crunch crippling its alumina refinery at Lanjigarh, said it is ready to source alumina from National Aluminium Company (Nalco) at export price. “Our smelter operations have been affected because of...
Aluminum will Shine again for Alcoa and Bauxite Resources
Due to the slump in the global economy, share prices for companies in the aluminum sector such as Alcoa and Bauxite Resources have become very attractive. Alcoa, a Dow Jones 30 member, is the largest aluminum company in the world. Bauxite Resources, based in Australia, is the largest tenement...
Gove refinery should continue operation, according to AWU
Pacific Aluminium's (Rio Tinto) Gove bauxite mine and alumina refinery are vital economic assets and critical parts of Australia's aluminium supply chain that must remain fully operational, according to The Australian Workers' Union (AWU). Pacific Aluminium today announced it would conduct a review...
Vedanta Aluminium resumes operation on bauxite availability
After being shut for nine days due to lack of bauxite, the alumina refinery of Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) at Lanjigarh in Odisha's Kalahandi district opened on Monday with arrival of some raw material. "The refinery plant, which was temporarily shut down on October 13, has opened and re-started...
Vedanta Resumes Operations at East India Alumina Refinery
Vedanta Resources VED.LN -1.66% PLC has resumed operations at its alumina refinery in the eastern Indian state of Orissa where production was suspended for more than a week due to a shortage of bauxite, a raw material. "We have started operations at the plant on Monday after we received bauxite...
