Tianshan Aluminium obtained a mining license for a 1 million tonnes per year bauxite mine in Guangxi through its wholly-owned subsidiary Jingxi Tiangui Aluminium, according to its official announcement. The mine, located in Jingxi, a county-level city under Baise city in the western part of Guangxi, is about to begin substantive production soon, though no specific start date has been released.
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In Baise, Tianshan Aluminium also operates a 2.5 million tonne per year alumina production line that has already reached full capacity. The project has been built in three phases, with the first phase involving a capacity of 800,000 tonnes per year, commissioned in March 2020 and the remaining two phases totalling 1.7 million tonnes per year coming online in June 2022, according to public information. The alumina produced from this line is supplied both internally to guarantee sufficient feed for the group's 1.2 million tonne per year aluminium production and sold to external buyers.
In Indonesia, the company completed the acquisition of a 100per cent share in PT Inti Tambang Makmur in November 2024, indirectly obtaining mining rights for three bauxite mines previously owned by the Indonesian company's subsidiaries. The mines are located in West Kalimantan province, with capacity information not given.
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Exploration work for these bauxite mines is now underway, and initial mining activities have already begun this year, the company said. The extracted bauxite will supply Tianshan Aluminium's planned two-phase alumina project in Indonesia, which has a total designed capacity of 2 million tonnes per year. Tianshan Aluminium received approval on the environmental assessment for the 1 million tonne per year phase-one alumina project in early 2025 and is currently advancing preliminary works such as land acquisition, site levelling, and wharf construction.
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In Guinea, Tianshan Aluminium indirectly acquired a 50 per cent share in Elite Mining Guinea S.A. in 2023 and obtained the right to purchase ore from a bauxite mine under the Guinean company at a price stipulated in an agreement. The mine's planned annual production capacity is 5-6 million tonnes. Its first shipment was delivered in December 2024, and regular shipments from the Guinean mine to China have continued since then. The company has not disclosed the exact location of the project in Guinea.
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