Coal India, the world’s largest coal producer, is evaluating bauxite opportunities in Ghana as the Indian state-controlled miner eyes expansion beyond coal and to secure overseas mineral assets. The Ghana interest is part of a wider plan to establish Coal India’s first overseas trading office in...
Volta Aluminium Company Limited (VALCO) plans to move further into Ghana’s aluminium value chain with a new continuous casting and rolling mill that will produce aluminium rods for electrical cable manufacturers. The company has already supplied test samples to Nexans Kablemetal and Reroy Cables,...
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The Ghana Chamber of Mines has warned that Ghana’s bauxite industry may collapse if the country’s transportation system is not fixed immediately. Ghana’s bauxite industry has recorded a plunge over the years due to poor railway lines and deteriorating road networks that hamper the transportation of...
Ghana is making a strategy to deal with illegal mining and logging which poses a grave environmental, health and security risk to the country, Minister of Lands and Natural Resources Mike Allen Hammah said here on Wednesday. Speaking at a workshop to develop a framework for artisanal and...
Ghana’s producer-price inflation rate fell for the first month in October as mining and quarrying costs decreased. Inflation eased to 16.8 percent from 19.6 percent a month earlier, Grace Bediako, head of the Ghana Statistical Service, told reporters in Accra, the capital, today. Prices fell 0.9...
Chongqing Bosai Minerals Group Co.,Ltd.will invest 1.2 billion dollars to build alumina project in Ghana,invest 0.5 billion dollars to build electrolytic aluminum project in Northern Europe and 0.1 billion dollars to expand Guyana aluminum ore available capacity. Ghana alumina project was invested...
The Ghana Bauxite Company Limited has incurred the wrath of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for refusing to submit its monthly environmental monitoring data for processing in the 2010 Public Disclosure for Environmental Performance Rating Programme. Ghana Bauxite, the only company in the...
Many international financial institutions continue to paint a positive outlook for Ghana’s economy, citing improved macro-stability, high commodity prices. The latest bullish assessment and positive outlook for the country’s economy comes from the report of Standard Batik, parent company of Stanbic...
The government of Ghana through the Ministry of Energy (MoEn) and the Volta Aluminium Company Limited (VALCO) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Kenesjay of Trinidad and Tobago and Sural C.A. of Venezuela to conduct feasibility studies towards the establishment of a Downstream...
The government of Ghana here on Friday promised to prop up state aluminum company ALUWORKS in the face of increasing competition in the market. Vice President John Dramani Mahama made this promise during a day’s visit to the company, located in the industrial port city of Tema, about 40 km east of...
Underperformance in the bauxite sector, which saw shipments drop by 42 percent, translating into a 41 percent fall in revenues, clouded an otherwise rosy outlook. The chamber linked this to "serious challenges" the Ghana Bauxite Company faced in transporting ore from its mine site to the port, some...
Nana Akufo-Addo, Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has promised to ensure the mining of the huge bauxite deposits at Nyinahin, if given the mandate to lead the nation. Nana Akufo-Addo, who is touring the Atwima-Mponua Constituency, as part of his countrywide listening...
The Volta Aluminium Company (VALCO) is a very well-known name on the country’s industrial landscape, and for obvious reasons. VALCO is perhaps the country’s largest industrial enterprise in terms of technology and employment and revenue generation. More importantly, it is the mother that gave birth...
...One of the major aims of Ghana’s first President Dr Kwame Nkrumah in the establishment of the Volta River Dam was to provide the country with cheap electricity supply and help in its industrialisation process...
...After three months of reactivation, the Volta Aluminium Company (VALCO) is on course towards reviving the aluminium industry in the short-term and the national goal of developing an integrated aluminium project in the long–term...
... Kwame Nkrumah decided on an integrated aluminium project based on Volta electricity as a major prank of the industrialisation and prosperity of Ghana. ... the American firm Kaiser Aluminum to process the Jamaican alumina in Ghana while the World Bank was assured of payment of the loan for the...
... Ghana Bauxite Exploration Project Signing Ceremony Held In Chengdu,China aluminium network--Featured products display can provide various ...
...Aluworks Ghana is calling on government to increase tariffs on imported Chinese products. Mr Ernest Kwasi Okoh MD of Aluworks said that “The Chinese are dumping their inferior goods such as cooking utensils, roofing sheets among others on the Ghanaian market which is largely responsible for the...
...Aluworks Ghana is calling on government to increase tariffs on imported Chinese products. According to the Managing Director of Aluworks, Ernest Kwasi Okoh, the Chinese are dumping their inferior goods such as cooking utensils, roofing sheets among others on the Ghanaian market, which is largely...
...Ghana plans to restart its Valco aluminium smelter next year as a prelude to building an integrated aluminium industry as world metal prices and its own energy resources improve, the government said on Wednesday...
