Lucrative bauxite mining contracts in Malaysia are causing health risks and impacting the wellbeing and environment of local residents.
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Wagina Island — a tiny community in Solomon Islands with an unusual history — is fighting to stop a major open-cut mine from being built on their island home.
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The Boké Mine in Guinea, Africa, holds some of the world's highest-quality bauxite deposits. To efficiently extract, process and transport the material from the mine, located approximately 30 km (18.6 miles) from the northern shores of the Rio Nuñez in Boké Prefecture, the Société Minière de Boké mining company (SMB) was formed in …
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These Guidelines build on the 2018 First Edition and set out good practices for sustainable bauxite mining operations. The aluminium industry's objective is a long-term, sustainable bauxite mining industry with acceptably low social and environmental impacts during operation and post-closure. Sustainable bauxite mining is not a "one-size fits all" …
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With demand for bauxite set to grow, global reliance on imports from Guinea could cause supply chain risks due to fluctuations in its output.
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Building businesses and restoring communities, from the earth up, through mineral export
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Iran is looking beyond a long-held project in Guinea to secure bauxite supplies, including from Australia, as the country ramps up its aluminium production, a manager at a state-owned Iranian ...
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Bauxite-alumina producer JISCO Alpart is looking to mine more ore for the company's plant, which is expanding at a cost of US$1.1 billion. It will be digging through 700 acres in an area referred to as as the 'Outer Valley' that would require the relocation of small farmers operating there, according to an environmental impact assessment report …
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ANTAM's bauxite commodity is produced at the Tayan bauxite mine, which is operated by the West Kalimantan Bauxite Mining Business Unit. The mined bauxite is fed for consumption at the Tayan CGA plant in Tayan, West Kalimantan.
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This case study, concluded in 2019, describes how CRU helped a junior mining company demonstrate the commercial feasibility of its Guinean bauxite project to investors. CRU's work underpins the financing of …
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Building businesses and restoring communities, from the earth up, through mineral export
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Alcoa Corporation (NYSE: AA) today welcomed decisions from the Western Australian (WA) Government that will allow the Company to continue bauxite mining and downstream alumina refining in the State, while also pledging to enhance the way it operates to meet evolving requirements and expectations. The government has …
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Based in Brisbane, Metro Mining owns the 1,900km 2 Bauxite Hills Mine in northern Queensland, which is in the latter stages of an expansion program designed to lift bauxite production to almost 7 million tonnes a year. ... "When I was working at Rio Tinto, I was in the bauxite and alumina business from about 2006, ...
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Bauxite mining is often considered to be fairly straight forward, with relatively small associated mining costs compared to those in subsequent phases of the production chain, including processing, transportation and logistics. …
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The global bauxite production was estimated at 421.5 million tonnes (Mt) in 2024. The production will grow at a CAGR of less than 1% from 2024 to 2030. The bauxite mining market research report contains an overview of the global bauxite mining industry including key demand-driving factors affecting the industry. It provides detailed …
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Australia is one of the very few countries globally which has bauxite mining, alumina refining, aluminium smelting and aluminium extrusion industries.
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Bauxite mining in Gumla district of Jharkhand is making the land barren and affecting the health of the people. Those affected by mining activities say that companies are not following norms that include backfilling of fields after the conclusion of mining, which is affecting their livelihood.
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An estimated 232,000t of raw ore a year will be mined from the two deposits to support a 25-year production plan. Bonasika 7 pit is expected to be mined by year 15, while the 6 pit is anticipated to last till year 25. ... Bauxite mining and beneficiation will be conducted in Guyana, while calcination and sintering will be performed at the ...
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In the proposal sent to the Government at the Prime Minister's meeting with state-owned enterprises at the end of March 2022, the Vietnam National Coal and Mineral Industries Group (TKV) proposed a bauxite mineral development plan for the national development goals in the long term.
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Mining and Management Programs. The robust statutory process for developing, reviewing and approving annual five-year rolling mine plans – known as Mining and Management Programs (MMP) – for our Huntly and Willowdale bauxite mines is currently set through the WA State Agreements that govern our operations.
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This paper aims to summarise the most appropriate modelling and mine planning techniques and aspects considered by the author as crucial for developing and …
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The Indonesian Association of Bauxite and Iron Ore Entrepreneurs (APB3I) has regretted the delay in the issuance of the 2024-2026 Work Plan and Budget Approval (RKAB) for bauxite mining companies until early this year, citing that it would halt operational activities of dozens of association members.
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Amrun, our newest mine, was completed in 2018 and will extend our Weipa bauxite operations by decades, significantly building on our 55-year history on the Western Cape, and providing jobs and supporting business growth …
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They are inherently linked to the deposit characteristics, the mining method to be applied, in situ grades, strip ratio, and other technical or economic characteristics influencing the …
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Soaring demand for electric vehicles is fueling dramatic changes in Guinea, home to the world's largest bauxite reserves A truck used for transporting bauxite along the mining road that cuts ...
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Learning from the experience of the old and abandoned bauxite mines elsewhere in Kolhapur district, it is revealed that adequate mandatory efforts for restoration and reclamation of mined lands are not implemented by the mining companies. The scientific restoration plan for bauxite mines remains on paper and in practice convenience gets …
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Gove Operations is located on the Gove Peninsula in North East Arnhem land in the Northern Territory. Discover more about aluminium and bauxite mining with Rio Tinto today.
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As Malaysia puts a temporary ban on the controversial practice of bauxite mining, the BBC's Jonathan Head visits a mining area.
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Malaysia was once the biggest bauxite supplier to top buyer China, with shipments peaking at nearly 3.5 million tonnes a month at end-2015. But all bauxite mining was banned early in 2016 after ...
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The Maroons, descendants of Indigenous people on the island nation, are blocking the government's plan to move bauxite mining to their ancestral land.
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As a recognized leader in sustainability, employees at our bauxite mines consult with our communities before, during, and after mining operations. Alcoa's bauxite primarily supports our internal alumina refinery system, …
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Bauxite is generally extracted by open cast mining, being almost always found near the surface, with processes that vary slightly depending on the location. Before mining can commence the land needs to be cleared of …
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