Engineering and construction giant Larsen & Toubro (L&T) has made a renewed bid to secure mining rights over Sijimali and Kutrumali bauxite deposits across Kalahandi and Rayagada districts after the enforcement of the Mines & Minerals (Development & Regulation) Act, MMDR Act, 2015.
Since L&T already has a prospecting license (PL) over these twin deposits, it is hopeful to bag them. Both Kutrumali and Sijimali have combined reserve of 300 million tonne of bauxite.
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BHUBANESWAR: Vedanta Resources Plc today said it plans to raise capacity of its Lanjigarh Alumina refinery to 6 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) with an investment of Rs 10,000 crore.
Talking to reporters after meeting Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, Vedanta Resources chairman Anil Agarwal said doubling of the present plant capacity to 2 mtpa would be done within a year of getting all the clearances.
Ramping up the capacity further to 6 mtpa would depend up...

AnRak Aluminium is moving ahead with the bauxite mining project in Makavarapalem in Visakhapatnam district despite the local opposition warns this analysis in the Economic and Political Weekly with focus on social and environment impact of the project. A bauxite/aluminium project very similar to the Vedanta project in Odisha is coming up in Visakhapatnam istrict of Andhra Pradesh. AnRak Aluminium, a company of the government of Ras al-Khaimah of the United Arab Emirates an...

AnRak Aluminium, a company of the government of Ras al-Khaimah of the United Arab Emirates and Penna Cement of AP has secured approval for both an aluminium complex and a bauxite mines in the Visakhapatnam district of Andhra Pradesh, but the final forest clearance for the mines is awaited. The AnRak project has replicated the Vedanta model of first building the refinery and then setting up the mine. The mine is to be operated by the state government to circumvent the ban on ...

A senior official in the state of Orissa, also known as Odisha, said the proposal to mine bauxite had been rejected by all the 12 village councils – known as gram sabhas.
"The last meeting was held today (Monday). People of all the 12 villages have now unanimously rejected the proposal," Lal Bihari Himrika, the state minister for tribal welfare, told AFP.
The Supreme Court ruled in April that the villagers should vote on the plan to extract bauxite from ...

“It is time now for Vedanta to gracefully respect public sentiment and pack off its establishment”
Efforts of Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL), belonging to London-listed Vedanta Resources Plc, to mine bauxite ore in Niyamgiri hills in Odisha received a severe blow on Monday with the 12th palli (gram) sabha also voting against mining there.
This is the first time an environmental referendum is conducted on a directive by the Supreme Court to find out...

BHUBANESWAR: The State Government on Friday announced in the Assembly that Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL) will be provided laterite deposits to run its plant at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district.
“The State Government has decided to provide laterite stone mines to Vedanta which requires bauxite for its refinery at Lanjigarh,” Minister of State for Steel and Mines Prafulla Kumar Mallik said while replying to a question from Chandrasekhar Majhi (Cong).
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Continuing its frenzied efforts to secure alternate bauxite supplies, Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) has urged the Odisha government to fast track its applications for three small laterite deposits in Koraput district for mining lease by the end of this month.
VAL’s urgency to secure alternate raw material supplies stems from the recent blow to bauxite mining atop the ecologically fragile Niyamgiri hills by the Union ministry of environment & forests (MoEF). The c...

Mines were operating under second deemed renewal; these mines contribute 45% of bauxite output in the state
Hindalco has around 2.23 mt of bauxite production in Jharkhand, of which 1.01 mt will be impacted due to the ban
Another 0.6 mt of bauxite output will be impacted due to closure of Maliparbat mine in Odisha
Production at Hindalco′s Maliparbat bauxite mine has come to halt as the district administration has imposed a prohibitory order
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VISAKHAPATNAM: All dressed up and nowhere to go? That seems to be the plight of AnRak Aluminium Ltd′s aluminium refinery and smelter that has come up at Rachapalle in Makavarapalem mandal, nearly 70 kms from the city.
Despite being completed over a month and a half ago at a cost of around Rs 4,500 crore, the 1.5 million tonne per annum capacity plant seems to be in danger of becoming a non-starter thanks to the lack of bauxite, the raw material for the plant. ...