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Construction at UAE’s Guinea Mine Achieves 75 Percent Completion

Construction at UAE’s Guinea Mine Achieves 75 Percent Completion

UAE aluminium smelter Emirates Global Aluminium PJSC (EGA) announced late last week that construction at its bauxite mining project in Guinea has achieved 75 percent completion. The US$1.4-billion project, which is being built by EGA’s subsidiary Guinea Alumina Corporation, represents the largest...

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Alufer’s First Shipment Of Guinean Bauxite Ore Arrives In China

Bauxite miner Alufer Mining Limited announced last week the safe arrival of the firm’s inaugural Capesize shipment of bauxite from its Bel Air Mine in Guinea to the port of Qingdao in the People’s Republic of China. The 203,009-metric-ton shipment was purchased by Chalco Shandong, a subsidiary of the Aluminium Company of China Limited (Chalco), […]

Fluor’s Expansion Of Guinea’s Kamsar Mine Yields First Bauxite Production

Fluor Corporation’s Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinée (CBG) has produced the project’s first ore according to a company press release. According to the statement, production at the Bauxite Production Expansion Project in Kamsar continues on schedule and within budget. Tony Morgan, president of Fluor’s Mining & Metals business, said that this is an important first […]

Chalco Breaks Ground On Boffa Bauxite Project In Guinea

State-run smelter Aluminum Corp of China (Chalco) announced yesterday the start of construction at its Boffa bauxite project in Guinea. Reuters reported Monday that the company released a statement saying that a groundbreaking ceremony took place this weekend at the site. No further details were available at press time. Earlier this year Chalco said production […]

Guinea’s Bel Air Bauxite Mine Makes First Ore Shipment

Guinea’s Bel Air bauxite mine is complete and its first shipment to Chinese buyers has been made. So said the African Finance Corporation (AFC) on Wednesday. AFC said that the mine, which was finished on time and on budget, will have a production capacity of 5.5 million tons of high-grade bauxite ore per annum. In […]

EGA Inks Deal to Supply Vedanta with Guinean Bauxite

Emirates Global Aluminium PJSC (EGA) announced yesterday that it signed an agreement with Indian aluminium titan Vedanta Limited to supply it with bauxite from its mining project in the west African country of Guinea. The agreement, which commences in the latter half of 2019, will have EGA’s Guinean operations supply Vedanta with up to 12 […]