Guinea Bauxite Outlook Report, 2025: Growth, Risk and Global Dependence
Guinea Bauxite Outlook Report, 2025: Growth, Risk and Global Dependence Tracking China’s reliance, Guinea’s expansions, and the future of supply Guinea sits at the heart of global bauxite supply. Export capacity keeps expanding, yet the government is also cracking down, by suspending or restricting groups that fail to meet obligations,…
CM Indonesia Aluminium Value Chain Outlook to 2035
13/08/25 | Alumina, Aluminium, Bauxite
Indonesia – The New Frontline of Global Aluminium Supply. With China’s smelting sector capped at 45 MTPY and domestic bauxite reserves depleting, Chinese majors are looking offshore, and for alumina and primary aluminium, Indonesia has become their top target. Supportive government policy, vast resource potential, low refining costs and proximity…
Guinea’s Booming Bauxite Industry – How Much Is Too Much?
The axis of global bauxite supply is tilting more toward west Africa every day and, as it does, supply risks increase. China has now become so reliant on Guinean bauxite that a major supply disruption in Guinea has the potential to shut down almost half of China’s 40 MTPY primary aluminium…
Guinea’s Booming Bauxite Export Industry; Too Much Too Soon?
18/01/21 | Alumina, Aluminium, Bauxite
An Outlook to 2025 CM’s new 2021 Guinea bauxite report, released this month, has identified an additional 24 MTPY new export capacity and 32.5 MTPY new mining capacity to come on-stream in Guinea during calendar 2021, significantly increasing the country’s total capacity and adding more volume to an already over-supplied…
China’s Bauxite Regions, Alumina Refineries & Primary Aluminium Smelters Map 2020
25/02/20 | Alumina, Aluminium, Bauxite
CM’s 2020 China Wall Map of Bauxite Regions, Alumina Refineries and Primary Aluminium Smelters is now available in printed A1 size. For nearly a decade now, CM has produced the map on an annual basis. It contains detailed information about China’s major domestic aluminium industry assets, their locations, capacities and ownership, as…
GUINEA’S BAUXITE MINING SECTOR: THE GENIE IS OUT OF THE BOTTLE
01/09/19 | Alumina, Aluminium, Bauxite
An Outlook to 2024 The combination of abundant high-grade resources, strong demand growth from China and a more practical mining code, developed to be more supportive of exports, has led Guinea to become fertile ground for development of a new generation of bauxite mining and export projects. Despite the country’s…
