Unions in Guinea resumed a general strike on Monday in protest against President Lansana Conte’s rule and disrupted mining operations in the world’s top bauxite exporter, witnesses and officials said.
For the second time in a month, markets, shops, schools, banks and administration offices were closed in the capital Conakry and other towns around the West […]
Following news of BHP Billiton’s [NYSE:BHP] interest in a very early stage DRC bauxite project, Marius Klopper, an executive director, says his company is also looking at a stake in Global Alumina’s [TSX:GLA-U] Republic of Guinea-based deposit containing the same commodity.
Bauxite is aluminium ore which is smelted into alumina and then refined into aluminium.
The company […]
Union leaders in Guinea have given President Lansana Conte one week to name a prime minister, saying they will restart a suspended general strike in the West African country if he fails, a union negotiator said on Tuesday.
The public ultimatum reflects the suspicions of union bosses that Conte is dragging his feet over implementing a […]
A consortium led by China’s biggest gold miner, Zijin Mining Group Co., has made a 94.6 million pound, or $185.4 million, offer for British copper miner Monterrico Metals PLC, in what could become China’s first outright takeover of an overseas listed company.
The proposed acquisition, announced earlier this week by Monterrico and Zijin, is the latest […]
While talks sputter to end Guinea’s deadly two-week nationwide strike, the country’s main export industry is starting to feel the effects. Guinea is the world’s largest exporter of bauxite, the raw material used to make aluminum. Phuong Tran reports from VOA’s West Africa bureau in Dakar on how the strike in Guinea is affecting the […]
Brazil’s Minas Gerais state government has shut down local bauxite mining company Rio Pomba Cataguases after an environmental accident, state news agency Agência Minas reported.
Specifically, a residue dam ruptured in Miraí city, releasing some two million cubic meters of mud into the Fubá river.
The material is not toxic, the report said, adding that Rio Pomba […]
Schools, shops and markets in Guinea were shut on Wednesday as a nationwide general strike got under way, but the volatile West African country’s key bauxite industry did not immediately appear to be seriously affected.
Additional police and army patrols deployed around the streets of the capital Conakry on the first day of the indefinite strike, […]
Heavy rains caused a bauxite mine’s rejects dam in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais to burst and drive 5,000 people from their homes, Brazil’s CBN radio station said on Wednesday.
Dozens of people have died and more than 8,000 have been left homeless in southeast Brazil in the past weeks due to mud slides and […]
Brazil’s State of Minas Gerais Government shut down the Mineracao Rio Pomba bauxite mine after a tailings dam burst.
The accident is the latest in a series of weather-related disasters that have killed dozens of people and left more than 8,000 homeless.
A state spokesman said the government has decided to shut the mine at least until […]