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The presence of bauxite in Western Australia was known since 1912, but it was not commercialised until the Western Mining Corporation (primarily a gold producer) diversified and began bauxite exploration in 1957.

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Bauxite Mining and Alumina Refining PubMed Central (PMC)

May 08, 2014· A cancer incidence and mortality study has been undertaken for a cohort of employees working in three bauxite mines and three alumina refineries in Western This is the only cancer incidence and mortality study to date in bauxite mining and alumina refining. The most recent analysis of this ongoing study was undertaken with data to ...

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Restoration Following Bauxite Mining In Western Australia

ALCOA of Australia mines bauxite from the Darling Range in southwestern Australia in an area known as the Jarrah Forest. The Darling Range is a mountainous region characterized by a dissected, uplifted peneplain with elevations of 300400 meters above mean sea level (Tacey 1979).

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Worsley Alumina

Interest in bauxite mining in the South West of Australia stretches back to the 1960s. However, mining and refining the ore didn’t get underway until the 1980s. At the time, building the mine, conveyor belt and processing plant was Australia’s most expensive capital project, costing AUD billion and …

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Huntly Mine (Huntley Mine), Dwellingup, Murray Shire ...

Huntly Mine (Huntley Mine), Dwellingup, Murray Shire, Western Australia, Australia : (Map shallow pits cover a wide extent of territory. The location is the entrance). An aluminum mine (bauxite) owned by Alcoa of Australia (51%) and local interests. A bauxite mine operated by ...

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Western Australia bauxite Archives – Aluminium Insider

Western Australia bauxite. Striking Workers At Alcoa’s Western Australia Bauxite And Alumina Operations Reject Contract Proposal . A proposal to end the strike at Alcoa Corporation’s bauxite and alumina operations in Western Australia was rejected by the plant’s trade union on Friday, allowing the monthlong work stoppage to continue. ...

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Chemistry of trace and heavy metals in bauxite residues ...

PDF | On Jan 1, 2010, Markus Grafe and others published Chemistry of trace and heavy metals in bauxite residues (red mud) from Western Australia

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Alcoa Bauxite

Our global network is strategically located near key Atlantic and Pacific markets. It includes the Huntly mine in Australia, the second largest bauxite mine in the world. Alcoa offers bauxite from its mines to meet customerspecific needs and provide a consistent, reliable, and sustainable supply of raw material for refineries around the globe.

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Alcoa to Boost Bauxite Exports from Western Australia ...

Alcoa’s Roy Harvey informed participants in a quarterly earnings call this week that he expects the firm to “dramatically” increase bauxite exports from its operations in Western Australia after the first shipment of ore from the region last month. The company’s first commercial shipment of bauxite from the mine at Huntly took place in December, […]

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BauxiteAlumina | The West Australian

BauxiteAlumina. Cuts coming 100 jobs on the line as Alcoa targets WA savings. The revamp has already cost the jobs of two senior Perthbased executives as the US giant aims to shave 88 million from its costs in WA. ... Training grounds Canyon boss at home in bauxiterich Cameroon.

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Bauxite Projects | Bauxite Resources Limited

Darling Range Project. The Company remains committed to the identification and development of high quality bauxite resources throughout the Darling Range, Western Australia, a proven bauxite and alumina producing region.

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Bauxite mining in Australia Wikipedia

Bauxite mining in Australia. Jump to navigation Jump to search. Bauxite mining in Weipa, Australia. Bauxite mining and aluminium smelting in Australia are major contributors to world supplies of aluminium. Australia mainly exports bauxite to India and China. Companies involved. Alcoa World Alumina and Chemicals ...

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Bauxite AIMR 2013 Australian Mines Atlas

Other large deposits (each >500 Mt) are located in Western Australia (WA) in the Darling Range, the Mitchell Plateau and at Cape Bougainville, of which the latter two have not been developed. The bauxite mines in the Darling Range have the world's lowest grade bauxite mined on a commercial scale (around 2730% Al 2 O 3). Despite the low grade ...

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Jarrahdale, Huntly, and Willowdale Mines | The Australian ...

Huntly bauxite production has doubled since 1990 and currently produces around 23 million tonnes of bauxite per year. The Willowdale mine, established in 1984, is located east of Waroona and supplies bauxite ore to the Wagerup Refinery. The Willowdale mine produces about 10 million tonnes of bauxite …

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Alcoa Secures First Major Export Contract to Supply ...

Dec 19, 2016· NEW YORK PERTH, Australia(BUSINESS WIRE)Alcoa Corporation (NYSE: AA), the world’s largest bauxite miner, today announced that Alcoa World Alumina and Chemicals (AWAC) has secured its first major thirdparty contract to supply approximately 400,000 bone dry metric tons (bdmt) of bauxite from its Huntly mine in Western Australia (WA), furt

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Mining and Refining – Australia World Aluminium

Alcoa's Kwinana alumina refinery is located 45 kilometres south of Perth, Western Australia. Opened in July 1963, the plant has been upgraded and improved over the years, and now has a production capacity of more than two million tonnes of alumina every year.

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Western Australia Wikipedia

Western Australia is a major extractor of bauxite, which is also processed into alumina at four refineries providing more than 20% of total world production. It is the world's thirdlargest ironore producer (15% of the world's total) and extracts 75% of Australia's 240 tonnes of gold.

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Restoration Resource Center Australia: Returning the ...

There are currently approximately million ha of intact Jarrah forest in Western Australia, about 65% of the total compared to preEuropean settlement. Currently, Alcoa mines and rehabilitates 500600 ha of this forest each year at opencut mines located between 55 and 130 km south of …

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Alcoa looks to rampup bauxite exports quickly | The West ...

But spot prices for highgrade bauxite were sitting above 50 a tonne in the leadup to Alcoa’s first WA exports in December, and chief financial officer William Oplinger told analysts its margins on bauxite sales from Australia and Brazil were about 35 per cent.

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Bauxite | The Aluminum Association

Guinea and Australia have the two largest proven reserves. A wealth of bauxite reserves Vietnam may hold a wealth of bauxite. In November 2010, the prime minister of Vietnam announced the country’s bauxite reserves may total up to 11 billion tons. Bauxite 101 Bauxite ore is …

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Bauxite | Geoscience Australia

Other large deposits (>500 Mt) are located in Western Australia in the Darling Range, the Mitchell Plateau and at Cape Bougainville, of which the latter two have not been developed. The bauxite mines in the Darling Range have the world's lowest grade bauxite ore mined on a commercial scale (around 2730% Al 2 O 3). Despite the low grade, the ...

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Alumina Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety

Historically, bauxite was mined, then refined into alumina and then exported. The state accounts for around 67 per cent of Australia’s alumina production with Western Australia’s alumina projects among the lowest costs producers in the world. In 2016, Alcoa made its first shipments of raw bauxite from Western Australia to China as part of a ...

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Boddington, Western Australia Wikipedia

By 1969, the railway had been closed and Boddington became a typical small service area for the surrounding district. However, the establishment of bauxite mining in 1979 to service Western Australia's alumina production at Worsley, Kwinana and Wagerup, and the opening of the Boddington Gold Mine in 1987 created a thriving mining town.

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BAUXITE MINING IN THE DARLING RANGE, WESTERN …

In the South West of Western Australia there is a combination of factors which taken together give a delicately balanced and fragile environment. The same weathering pro­ cesses which produced the bauxite ores of the Darling Range have also resulted in the …

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Bauxite Deposits of the Kimberley, Western Australia AusIMM

Bauxite was discovered in the Kimberley in 1965 by an Amax field crew. Reserves of 230 million tons, of bauxite. averaging 47% total alumina on Mitchell Plateau and 980 million tons averaging 36% total alumina on Cape Bougainville have been indicated by the results of drilling and bulk sampling. Laterite which contains the bauxite deposits...

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Decommissioning Western Australia's First Bauxite Mine: Co ...

Alcoa World Alumina Australia currently operates two bauxite mines in the Darling Range of south‐western Western Australia, 80–140 km south of Perth (Figs 1 and 2). Huntly is the largest bauxite mine in the world, producing over 20 million tons of ore every year.

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Alcoa Australia

Sep 20, 2019· Alcoa of Australia Ltd operates one of the world’s largest integrated bauxite mining, alumina refining and aluminium smelting system and supports approximately 4,275 direct jobs, predominantly in regional Australia. Our operations consist of two bauxite mines, three alumina refineries and two dedicated port facilities in Western Australia and Portland Aluminium smelter in …

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Mining in Western Australia Wikipedia

Iron ore mining in Western Australia, in the financial year 2008–09, accounted for 47 percent of the total value of the states resources, with a value of A billion. The overall value of the mineral and petroleum industry in Western Australia was A billion in 2008–09, a 19 percent increase compare to the previous financial year.

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(PDF) Bauxite mineralization in the Darling Range, Western ...

Bauxite mineralization in the Darling Range, Western Australia: Western Australia. Arthur Hickman. I. Brown. Arthur Hickman. ... or download with email. Bauxite mineralization in the Darling Range, Western Australia: Western Australia. Download. Bauxite mineralization in the Darling Range, Western Australia: Western Australia. Arthur Hickman. I ...

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Australian Bauxite | The Australian Aluminium Council

There are currently five bauxite mines in Australia providing feedstock for the seven alumina refineries, which in turn supply alumina to the six Australian aluminium smelters and the export market. Australia is the largest producer of bauxite in the world, with million tonnes produced in 2011. The five Australian bauxite mines are:

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Bauxite | Geoscience Australia

Dec 31, 2016· In Western Australia, Bauxite Resources Ltd was part of two individual Joint Ventures with different Chinese companies (both stateowned enterprises) to supply Darling Range bauxite. Both projects have been largely inactive in recent years with the most advanced of the joint ventures bought out by its Chinese partner in 2016. On the east coast ...

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Dwellingup Darling Range South of Perth Western Australia ...

Bauxite mining on the Darling Range also known as the Darling Scarp has a long history in Western Australia. In 1976 Alcoa built near Dwellingup the Huntly mine which is the world’s second largest bauxite mine. Alcoa also operate the Pinjarra, Kwinana, Wagerup and Willowdale alumina refineries in …

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Bauxite

Bauxite extracted from the Darling Range is a lowgrade ore with a content of more than 27 percent aluminium oxide. It takes seven tonnes of bauxite to yield one tonne of aluminium. When mining began Alcoa constructed the first alumina refinery in Western Australia at Kwinana in Cockburn Sound in 1963.

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