Mineração Rio do Norte (MRN), Brazil’s largest bauxite producer, launched a new mining project in the Amazon region in 2019 but failed to notify and consult four impacted traditional riverine ...

Proposed railway line in Odisha sparks tribal protests against bauxite mining, raising concerns over environmental and livelihood impacts.

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Since Brazil’s military dictatorship, the town of Barcarena, in Pará state, has been home to an industrial complex that comprises several mining ...

Bauxite ore, a key component in the production of aluminum, was first discovered in the United States near Hermitage, Ga., in 1883; the largest deposits, however, were soon to be found in Arkansas. In ...

Guinea’s ambitions to move beyond raw mineral exports received a major boost after Aluminum Corp of China (Chalco), China’s ...

While tourism has long-been the bedrock industry of Far North Queensland, the mining industry has been working quietly in the background to pick up some heavy lifting.

Guinea plans to defend Axis International Ltd.’s $28.9 billion arbitration claim, saying that it terminated the firm’s bauxite-mining permit for violating an industry code. United Arab Emirates-based ...

On Oct. 4 last year, as toxic red sludge from a Hungarian aluminum plant flowed toward the Danube, critics of the fledgling bauxite mining industry in Vietnam resurfaced after being silenced in 2009.

BHUBANESWAR/NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Odisha is seeking to revive a controversial plan to mine for bauxite in the Niyamgiri hills, a lushly forested area that the Dongria Kondh tribe considers sacred, a ...