Shaking up Shanxi's bauxite industry

• Autores: Laura Syrett, Albert Li
• Localización: Industrial Minerals, ISSN 0019-8544, Nº. 569, 2015 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Febrero)
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • On the 3 December 2014, a meeting was held in the Chinese city of Tiayuan, the capital of Shanxi province, to discuss the regulation and management of the bauxite industry in Shanxi, Guizhou and Henan provinces - the three main bauxite-producing regions in China.

    "I do not think it is possible to instigate a process of resource allocation for companies wishing to use it," one source familiar with the Shanxi bauxite industry told IM. "They want to do something, but [it takes] time to do this kind of 'small thing'," they said.

    "My home is in central Shanxi province, where we retain proven reserves accounting for more than 40% of the [country's total bauxite reserves]," the article states. It describes how the region's bauxite is distributed among 13 areas and that the majority is medium grade material with an alumina-silica ration of 4:6, with high grade material (alumina content of over 70%) making up just 12.9% of the province's resources.