Brazil’s Votorantim to ramp up its mining activities

Brazilian conglomerate Votorantim is to make significant, although still undisclosed, investments in new mining projects in South America, employing some of the money it obtained from selling its stake in Brazilian steelmaker Usiminas to the...

Alumina back in the black with $35m profit

ASX-listed bauxite miner and aluminium producer Alumina on Thursday reported a return to profitability for the 2010 financial year, posting a net profit of $35-million. This was compared with an after-tax loss of $24-million on the previous...

Queensland, miner at odds over enviro safeguards for bauxite project

Australian bauxite-miner Cape Alumina confirmed on Friday that it had placed its Pisolite Hills project under review, after the Queensland government declared the Wenlock river basin a wild river area, under the state’s Wild Rivers legislation....