Introduction Guinea, a small west African country, is endowed with more than 40 billion tons of metallurgical grade bauxite and thus occupies the top position in the world. Despite being blessed with world’s largest bauxite deposits, till recently Guinea was lagging behind in bauxite production compared to major producing countries like Australia, Brazil, China and […]
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China plays a dominant role in world aluminium. Any aluminium industry player would know the importance of China aluminium prices in international business. In fact, pricing movements of the raw materials (that go into the process of aluminium making) and downstream products in China major markets are referred to with great inquisitiveness by almost all […]
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Malaysian government imposed a three-month ban on the mining and export of bauxite effective January 15 2016 after a dramatic boom in the mining and export of the mineral to China. A perfect example of an ideal situation going wrong for lack of systematic regulation, Malaysian bauxite ban has put a flourishing industry to a standstill. […]
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Technology and innovation play an important role in achieving sustainable growth and impacting competitiveness. Today, mineral and metal industry across the globe is facing a serious economic crisis due to continuous fall in commodity prices, depleting raw material sources, non-availability of high grade ores, stringent environmental rules and societal expectations. In the era of declining […]
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After much deliberation and delay the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957 has been revised and Rajya Sabha has passed the Mines and Minerals Amendment Bill, 2015. This new Act aims to legalize the system of auction of mines to enhance transparency in mineral allocations in India. Though the passing of this act […]
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Hydro’s collaborative research project in Brazil aims to restore and protect biodiversity. With our bauxite mine situated in an area earlier covered with rainforest, Hydro has set a goal to balance the opening of mining area with reforested areas by 2017 and has a long-term aspiration of no net loss of biodiversity. One of the […]
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Presently China produces 50% of the World’s alumina and aluminium. Since the 1950-ies, about 35 alumina refineries and 60 aluminium smelters were built in China using domestic and imported raw materials. Consequently, there are multiple refinery technologies in China, e.g., high temperature and low temperature Bayer process, sintering process, flotation-Bayer process and sweetening process. Absence […]
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India has a known reserve of around 300 Million tonnes of Bauxite (12 % of World Reserve ) of which nearly 250 Million tonnes of Bauxite are available in the eastern coast of Odisha and Andhra Pradesh. The balance quantity is available in Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh, Maharashtra, Goa, Gujarat, etc. While Gujarat Bauxite is […]
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During the past few decades, application areas for aluminium have steadily expanded. The metal’s properties like recyclability, non-corrosiveness, low density and high strength benefit the industrial, construction and manufacturing sector in a number of ways. Aluminium production is rapidly developing all over the world and the growth of the industry in a specific country is […]
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There seems to be a common belief in the World that the Industrial and Mining activities are Environmentally harmful. In 1960s, the Club of Rome in its book Limits to Growth indicated that the Dooms Day for the mankind was within sight as the mineral resources on the Earth were getting exhausted fast limiting the […]
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