Century Aluminum Company and Noranda Aluminum Holding Corporation announced today that Larry Holley has been named president and general manager of Gramercy Alumina, LLC and St. Ann Bauxite Limited, effective May 8, 2008.
“We are delighted with Larry’s appointment,” said Century’s chief operating officer Wayne R. Hale. “His technical background, mining experience and energy expertise make [...]

Whinnen Resources Limited (Whinnen, the Company) (ASX: WWW.AX) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a conditional agreement to acquire 85% of the Fongo Tongo Bauxite Project in the Republic of Cameroon in Africa, for a total consideration of US$8 million.
Payment will comprise US$4 million cash and US$4 million in shares, and will [...]

Indonesia plans to limit the area that metal and coal miners can explore to prevent domination by a few companies, a legislator said on Monday, a move analysts said could hurt already poor levels of investment.
Indonesia has some of the world’s largest deposits of coal, copper, tin, nickel and gold, and is keen to earn [...]

The 9th International Mining and Machinery Exhibition, organised by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) In association with Ministry of Mines, Ministry of Coal, Government of India, focuses on the opportunities, both international and national, provided by the shift of mining companies towards customer satisfaction and expectations. It examines till the elements that make up The [...]

Japan’s Mitsui Mining and Smelting Co plans to produce 123,300 tonnes of zinc in the first half of the year ending in March 2009, up 10.9 percent from a year earlier.
The plan reflects an expected boost from Hachinohe Smelting Co, an affiliated zinc and lead smelter that had been under maintenance over the past year, [...]

The Rs 4,000-crore alumina refinery project of Utkal Alumina International Ltd (UAIL) in Kashipur, Rayagada district, seems destined to be further delayed. The project, which has been hanging fire for the last 16 years, is facing fresh trouble from local inhabitants. “Work on the site has stopped for the last three weeks as project-affected [...]

Sand Making Machine (namely PCL Vertical shaft impact crusher) is of high-power and low-consumption, which is designed depending on several year’s hard work and study of mechanical mining equipment.
Sand Making Machine absorbed the advanced technology of the same products of Barmac Company of America, now is of the international level. Sand Making Machine plays an [...]

Chhattisgarh has earned around Rs.7 billion royalty on coal, bauxite and iron ores during the first nine months of the current fiscal 2007-08, officials here said Monday.
The state, which has nearly 18 percent of the country’s total coal deposits and about 20 percent of nation’s iron ore reserves, earned Rs. 8.32 million royalty revenue in [...]

Aluminum Corp. of China, the country’s biggest aluminum maker, said Tuesday that its net profit fell 13.7 percent in 2007 due to lower product prices.
The company, also known as Chinalco, said its 2007 net profit fell to 10.2 billion yuan ($1.4 billion) compared with net profit of 11.8 billion yuan in 2006, it said in [...]

For major mining companies such as Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton, the future life is a combination of their exploration work and enterprise: to find things on their own, to be approached by other companies in deals , or make acquisitions.
Rio growth with Alcan bought last year and is now off fighting an attempt by [...]