GAC Begins Bx Exports from Guinea
07/08/19 | Bauxite
Shanghai Nonferrous Metals News EGA (Emirate Global Aluminium) recently announced that GAC (Guinea Alumina Corporation), its subordinate in Guinea, had begun exporting bauxite from Guinea. GAC’s bauxite mine project in Guinea has 12 mtpy designed capacity. The first batch of GAC’s bauxite exports marks completion of EGA’s strategic upstream expansion…
SBG Plans 1.6 mtpy Aa Refinery for Guinea
06/08/19 | Alumina
Asian Metal News The Guinean SBG (Societe des Bauxite de Guinea) is seeking partners to jointly build a 1.6 mtpy alumina refinery with two 800 ktpy alumina production lines in Guinea. Total investment is expected at USD 1.4 bln. The feasibility study has been completed but project commencement time is…
Domestic July Aa Output 5.91 mln t and Al Output 3.02 mln t
Cnal News China produced 3.02 mln t of primary aluminium in July 2019. Average daily output was 97.4 kt, up 0.5 kt/day from 96.9 kt for June and annualized output was 35.55 mln t. Domestic primary aluminium output is expected to lift to 3.04 mln t in August, with…
China June Bx Imports 9.3 mln t
06/08/19 | Aluminium
SMM News China imported 9.3 mln t of bauxite in June, down 4.17% on-month, but up 33.17% on-year. China imported 56.33 mln t of bauxite in H1 2019, up 39.26% from 40.45 mln t during the same period last year. According to statistics released by Guinea’s Ministry of Economy…
China Imports 12.38 kt of Tin Ore/Concentrates in June
02/08/19 | Tin
Alu News China Customs: China imported 12.38 kt of tin ore and concentrates in June, 11.44 kt of which was from Burma, accounting, for 92% of the national total. Other tin ore and concentrate imports were 313 t from Malaysia, 60 t from Australia and 27 t from Laos in…
Domestic Al Inventory Increases by 5 kt
02/08/19 | Aluminium
Cnal News 1st August: Total domestic aluminium inventory at China’s major store houses increased by 5 kt from last Thursday to 1.04 mln t, including 199 kt in Shanghai, 305 kt in Wuxi, 62 kt in Hangzhou, 107 kt in Gongyi, 274 kt in Nanhai, 53 kt in Tianjin, 24…
NDRC: Domestic 2019 H1 Primary Al Output 17.41 mln t
02/08/19 | Aluminium
China Nonferrous Metals News NDRC: Total output of the major ten kinds of nonferrous metals including copper, aluminium, lead, zinc and nickel climbed by 4.3% on-year to 28.34 mln t during H1 2019. Of this figure, copper output was 4.52 mln t, aluminium 17.41 mln t, lead 2.87 mln…
NBS: Domestic 2019 H1 Aa Output 37.19 mln t
02/08/19 | Alumina
Sina Finance News NBS: China produced 37.19 mln t of alumina during H1 2019, up 6.7% on-year, chiefly driven by capacity growth in Shandong, Guangxi and Guizhou, showing noted capacity growth in southern China and decline in northern China. According to the Shanghai Nonferrous Metals Exchange Center, domestic alumina…
Baise Mining Tianlin 100 ktpy Al Project Set to Come Online
01/08/19 | Aluminium
Asian Metal News Guangxi Baise Mining Group’s Tianlin Aluminium is set to bring its phase II, 100 ktpy primary aluminium project online during late August. Phase II comprises 80 sets of 600kA cells. Designed with total primary aluminium capacity of 300 ktpy, the Tianlin smelter has been operating at 100…
