
Imported bauxite prices in China moved slightly higher last week amid improved activity in the spot market. No trend-level shift emerged on the supply-demand side. Although rainy-season disruptions and elevated freight rates continued to weigh on Guinea's export volumes, the country's weekly...
Recently, domestic alumina spot and futures prices have weakened in tandem, and market sentiment has become more cautious. According to Mysteel research, China's operating alumina capacity has reached 99 million tonnes per year, the highest level so far this year. New commissioning and technical...
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<p>According to CRU, global alumina capacity is forecast to grow by 29.6% over the next ten years, reaching 179.6M tonnes by 2024. Metallurgical grade alumina capacity expansion, primarily in China will drive the growth in demand for bauxite. China's growing need for raw materials to feed its...

<p>The year 2016 has been a year of transition for the global bauxite industry. While the sector fared slightly better than the alumina and aluminium industries- both of which faced severe pricing woes since 2016 beginning, numerous changes in the rankings, rather fluctuations, were noted as far as...

Bauxite has been a priority sector for the upstream aluminium value chain players for some time now. The supply certainty of the ore plays a crucial role in controlling the logistics cost of the sector which in turn helps in optimising the overall cost of production of aluminium. With China’s...

<p>A new Research report by Orbis Research delivers detail insight into the bauxite mining market covering a global industry A new Research report by Orbis Research delivers detail insight into the bauxite mining market covering a global industry overview, trends, growth and size. The report also...

<p>Emirates Global Aluminium today announced that the first bauxite bulk sample shipment from its mine under development in the Republic of Guinea has left from the port of Kamsar, bound for bauxite customers in China.<br /><br />The shipment of 55,000 tonnes is an important milestone in...

<p>As confirmed by the Chief Executive Officer of Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) on Tuesday Nov 22, the company is processing the loading its first sample shipment of bauxite from its Guinea mine to China.<br /><br />Guinea Alumina Corporation S.A. (“GAC”) is a mining development...

<p>China diversified its bauxite imports sources in September this year in order to meet the rising demand from the domestic alumina industry, reported Shanghai Metals Market. In spite of shrinking imports of aluminium ore from Australia and Guinea, shipments from India, Fiji and Solomon Islands...

<p>Alliance Mining Commodities (AMC), a Bermudan minerals development company has signed a merger term sheet with MHM Metals of Melbourne, Australia, reported industry sources aware of the matter. The proposed merger will be implemented by way of a scrip exchange, at an indicative merger ratio of...

<p>The global Bauxite resources are estimated to be 55 to 75 billion tons. Currently the total reported mine production from 27 countries stands at 245 million tons. The leading f bauxite producing countries are Australia, China, Brazil, Guinea, India, and Jamaica. These countries accounted for 87%...

<p>CBIX climbed 2.6% (US$1.2/dmt) to US$46.3/dmt on the back of higher ViU-priced Brazilian material. After the slight rise last week, Malaysian prices held, with unwashed material at US$27.5/dmt FOB and washed material at US$39.5/dmt FOB.<br /><br />The pace is quickening (if that’s...

<p>According to the recently published Research and Markets report, the global aluminium ore and concentrate trade amounted to 3,077 million USD in 2015, exhibiting noticeable fluctuations over the period under review. A significant drop in 2009 was followed by volatile recovery over the next four...

<p>Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) announced inauguration a container terminal at the Port of Kamsar in Guinea on Wednesday. The terminal will enable EGA to import materials for constructing a new bauxite mine for its subsidiary Guinea Alumina Corporation (GAC). On completion, the US$1 billion mine...

<p>French bauxite explorer Alliance Miniere Responsable said it filed for permission to develop a $200 million mining project in northern Guinea.<br /><br />AMR seeks the right to mine bauxite in the West African nation’s Boke district for at least 15 years, Romain Girbal, president and...

<p>Anglo-African Minerals, an Irish exploration firm has announced a €200 million joint venture with a Chinese group to develop a bauxite mining project in Guinea.<br /><br />Anglo-African owns four bauxite licences Guinea and the firm confirmed that it had entered into the an initial...

<p>According to Scrap Monster China, about 4.46 million tons of bauxite was imported by China in August 2016. The import surged 22.7% from July 2016, as shown by the latest China customs statistics. This shows China is in no plan to cut down its aluminium production in recent times.<br /><br />The...

<p>China's total import of bauxite in the month of August declined marginally by 1.8 per cent year-on-year to stand at 4,457,660 million tonnes, while it grew 3.86 per cent during January-August period from the same period previous year, revealed the General Administration of Customs data released...

<p>CBIX fell 4.3% (US$2.1/dmt) over the week to close at US$46.5/dmt. Lower ViU-priced cargos from Brazil and Guinea failed to offset lower priced Malaysian material.<br /><br />In the wake of the extended Malaysian mining ban, sources close to Chinese refineries importing bauxite say they are...

<p>Since the time Indonesia had imposed a ban on ore export two years back creating a sudden lull in the hyperactive export market for China, a number of countries came up to seize the market and provide an alternative source of bauxite for China. Australia took the first plunge and continued to...