Guinea bauxite exports

Guinean Government Seeks Bauxite Miners’ Plans For Domestic Alumina Refineries

Guinean Government Seeks Bauxite Miners’ Plans For Domestic Alumina Refineries

The Guinean government last week asked companies operating bauxite mining operations to present plans for refining alumina within its borders by May of this year. The interim government that took power via coup in September has opted to take a harder line...

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EGA Ships 100th Load Of Bauxite Ore From Guinea Operations

Emirates Global Aluminium PJSC (EGA) shipped its one hundredth load of bauxite ore from its operations in the West African country of Guinea earlier this month. EGA said in a press release that its subsidiary Guinea Alumina Corporation has shipped 16.4 million metric dry tons since operations commenced at the US$1.4 billion project in the […]

EGA Shipped Over 6.1 Million DMT Of Bauxite Ore From Guinea Over Past Year

Emirates Global Aluminium PJSC (EGA) celebrated the year that has passed since the maiden bauxite export left from the facilities of its wholly-owned subsidiary Guinea Alumina Corporation. Since the beginning of production at the site, the subsidiary has exported more than 6.1 million dry metric tons of bauxite ore to buyers around the globe. At […]

Chalco Ships First Bauxite From Boffa Mines In Guinea

Aluminum Corp of China Ltd (Chalco) earlier this week commenced the first shipment of its inaugural batch of bauxite ore from mines in the West African country of Guinea. According to a Chinese ship-tracking website, the first 55 thousand metric tons of bauxite from the project left port on Sunday secured in the cargo holds […]

China Bauxite Imports Fall By 6 Percent In August Thanks To The Rains In Africa

Adverse weather conditions are to blame for the drop in imported bauxite ore by buyers in the People’s Republic of China, as rainy weather in Guinea hampered exports of the aluminium precursor to the Middle Kingdom in August. According to data released this week by the country’s customs department, China imported 9.04 million metric tons […]