Setting records straight on Noranda environmental …
2021-11-27 · Setting records straight on Noranda environmental impacts. I respond to the letter to The Gleaner published on November 20 from Jamaica Environment Trust (JET). As CEO of the parent company now operating Noranda Bauxite, we have an important interest in a transparent position on bauxite in Jamaica and SML 173.
Dongrias'' resounding ''No'' to Vedanta mine ahead of …
2013-7-31 · STOP PRESS: Three more villages have voted – and all have rejected the mine. So all eleven villages that have voted so far (out of twelve in total) have voted ''No'' to Vedanta''s plans. _____ British mining giant Vedanta Resources …
Mining company''s scare tactics against human rights NGO
2009-12-14 · Once the bauxite mine at Niyamgiri starts, India will be placed as one of the largest aluminium producer in the world. Niyamgiri range of hills has 250 sq. cm large foot print. The actual mineralization area in the proposed mining …
Guinea town''s unrest a cautionary tale for African mining
2017-5-12 · "We have all this mining, and no electricity. We have rivers everywhere, and there''s no water." The biggest frustration, however, is the dearth of jobs. The two bauxite companies between them employ about 2,000 people, officials in the ministry of mines say.
National Aluminium Company Ltd. Share Price, Stock ...
2021-11-26 · 16,171.54 Cr. 183.66 Cr. National Aluminium Company Limited (NALCO) is a Navratna CPSE under Ministry of Mines. It was established on January 07, 1981, with its registered office at Bhubaneswar. The Company is a group ''A'' CPSE, having integrated and diversified operations in mining, metal and power.
EU funding of EUR 5.9 million for Alumina Project
2019-6-11 · Tue, Jun 11, 2019 09:54 CET. EU''s Horizon 2020 program has granted EUR 5.9 million in funding for continued development of the patented alumina technology owned by Nordic Mining and Institute for Energy Technology (IFE). The technology is currently patented in Norway, USA, Russia, Denmark and Greenland, and approved by the EPO (European ...
Environmentalists Upset After Consultation On EIA For ...
"If there is no mining in SML (Special Mining Lease) 173, it simply means that Noranda does not have bauxite to continue to support its operation and it will close down, and it means that the 80 to 150 million United States dollars, which it earns for itself and the country, will not be earned in the future; and the 3,000 jobs which we mentioned would have been lost and their contributions to ...
Environmentalist bats for the Cockpit Country | Western ...
2017-2-28 · "Bauxite mining comes with a finite time frame. If you give that time frame a maximum of 20 years, then after that, all we know of the Cockpit Country and its richness of natural plant life and endemic species, land which farmers now use to contribute significantly to the country''s economy will be lost forever," said Dixon.
Port of Kuantan in Malaysia
Some three million tonnes of bauxite will be sitting on Kuantan Port''s land when a three-month mining ban kicks in on Jan 15. Kuantan Port Consortium general manager Datuk Azahari Muhammad Yusof said lorries were now bringing bauxite here at an average of 80,000 tonnes a day. "We have more or less 2.8 million tonnes of bauxite in Kuantan Port.
Overview of Indigenous Affairs: Part 1: 1901 to 1991 ...
2014-10-8 · The Mining (Gove Peninsula Nabalco Agreement) Ordinance 1968 (NT) granted a 42 year lease (with a right to renew) to Nabalco to mine Aboriginal land on the Gove Peninsula. Aborigines were given right to move across most of the lease but there were no provisions for the respect of sacred sites or the training or employment of Aboriginal people.
Impacts of Mining on Rivers
2002-1-15 · worst mining and drilling practices and to significant improvement of many of the rest. Still, it will take many decades to finish doing what we can to deal with the legacy of two centuries of irresponsible mining and drilling practices. It will also take time to improve the operation of ongoing operations to the point that they have negligible ...
New Project Announcements To Boost Production Despite …
2017-10-10 · Mining / Guinea / Tue 10 Oct, 2017. BMI View: Guinean bauxite production will witness solid growth over the coming years as a number of new projects come online, prompting an upside revision to the country''s bauxite forecasts. Ongoing political instability and US sanctions on producer Rusal will, however, pose key downside risks ahead.