Companie Bauxite de Guinee

Guinean Government Extends Deadline For Alumina Refinery Plans After None Are Submitted

Guinean Government Extends Deadline For Alumina Refinery Plans After None Are Submitted

The Guinean government has extended the deadline for bauxite firms to present plans for construction of in-country alumina refineries by another ten days last week, pushing back a deadline that lapsed at the end of last month. According to the country’s ruling...

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Unrest Halts Bauxite Operations in Guinean Port City Kamsar

Rioting has again taken hold of the Guinean port city of Kamsar, blocking roads and rails and disrupting bauxite mining operations. State agencies and Companie Bauxite de Guinee (CBG) officials confirmed the reports, saying that the unrest has caused the company’s bauxite operations to grind to a halt on Tuesday. According to reports, protesters barricaded […]

Deadly Riots Again Grip Guinea’s Bauxite Hub

Deadly rioting has again broken out in the Republic of Guinea’s bauxite capitol according to witnesses who spoke to the media. According to locals, over the course of two days rioters destroyed a police post and vehicle, leading to a lethal response by government forces. They say that rioters also attempted to block bauxite miners […]

Guinea to Mandate Domestic Refining of Bauxite

The president of the Republic of Guinea decreed last week that miners who produce over a certain amount of bauxite ore “will be obliged to build an alumina plant.” President Alpha Condé made the remarks in speech at recent mining conference in Guinea’s capital Conakry. Condé spoke at last week’s Symposium Mines Guinea, the largest […]

Riots Wreak Havoc on Guinean Bauxite Production

Social unrest has crippled bauxite production in the Republic of Guinea, jeopardizing the flow of the ore out of the African country that sits atop about one-third of the world’s known reserves. Residents burned tires and set up barricades in Boke to protest power cuts and pollution they say has been the result of mining […]