Bauxite mining machinery in Western Australia

Australia to remain global leader of bauxite production

Rio Tinto is the largest bauxite miner in Australia and reported production of 54.3 million tonnes (mnt) of bauxite from all its mines for 2021, down 3 per cent from the previous year primarily ...

Vegetation Succession After Bauxite Mining in Western Australia

Alcoa World Alumina Australia has been rehabilitating bauxite mines in the jarrah forest of Western Australia for more than 35 years. An experiment was established in 1988 using three different seed treatments (legume and small understorey mix, small understorey mix only, and no seed) and two fertilizer treatments (N and P, and P only). …

Metro Mining

Bauxite Hills Mine, Ankamuthi Country. Metro Mining's flagship project, The Bauxite Hills Mine, is located 95kms north of Weipa on Western Cape York where the company holds a total tenement package covering approximately 1,900 square kilometres. The Bauxite Hills Mine, alone, has an estimated ore Reserve of 101.5Mt and total Resources of 131.2Mt.

Long-term trends in avifaunal recolonisation of rehabilitated bauxite

Alcoa of Australia Limited rehabilitates areas in the jarrah forest of south-western Australia following bauxite mining. One of the aims of the company's rehabilitation programme is to re-establish the faunal communities which existed prior to mining. ... the pit remained compacted by heavy machinery and plantations of Pinus …

Bauxite Mining with a Mobile Crusher and Overland …

Alcoa of Australia's Del Park mining op eration is centred 9 km. east of the Pinjarra alumina refinery, and is centrally locatedwith- in the 10, 000 sq. km. lease which the Company holds for bauxite in the Darling Ranges. An- other mining operation is situated near the township of Jarrahdale, and supplies bauxite to the Kwinana refinery. Definition …

Public preferences for timeliness and quality of mine site

Bauxite mining and the jarrah forest. Bauxite was first discovered by Government geologists in the Darling Range of Western Australia (WA) in 1902 (Simpson, 1951). Alcoa World Alumina Australia (Alcoa) entered into a mining lease with the state government in 1961 (Alumina Refinery Agreement Act, 1961) to

Alcoa Welcomes Decisions That Support Western Australian …

Alcoa Corporation (NYSE: AA) today welcomed decisions from the Western Australian (WA) Government that will allow the Company to continue bauxite mining and downstream alumina refining in the State, while also pledging to enhance the way it operates to meet evolving requirements and expectations. The government has …

Vegetation Succession After Bauxite Mining in Western Australia

Alcoa World Alumina Australia has been rehabilitating bauxite mines in the jarrah forest of Western Australia for more than 35 years. An experiment was established in 1988 using three different seed treatments (legume and small understorey mix, small understorey mix only, and no seed) and two fertilizer treatments (N and P, and P only).

Australia to remain global leader of bauxite production

The major Australian bauxite mines are South32's Boddington mine in WA, Rio Tinto's Gove operations in the Northern Territory and its Weipa mine in Queensland, …

The Australian Aluminium Council

The first step in producing aluminium is mining this ore. Bauxite occurs mainly in tropical and sub-tropical areas, like Africa, the Caribbean, South America and Australia. Australia is one of the world's largest producers of bauxite, with five large mines supplying around 30 per cent of global production. Bauxite mining has five steps:

Vegetation Succession After Bauxite Mining in …

The vegetation succes- Bellairs, S. M., and D. T. Bell. 1993. Seed stores for restoration of species- sion of rehabilitated sites has been monitored from 1966, rich shrubland vegetation following mining in Western Australia. …

Western Australian bauxite mining in the spotlight

In the 1960s, bauxite mining cleared 440ha of publicly-owned land in the Northern Jarrah Forest, but between 2010 and 2019, the figure had surged to 10,420ha – …

Vegetation Succession After Bauxite Mining in …

Centre for Land Rehabilitation, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia. C. Corresponding author. Email: [email protected]. Abstract. Bauxite is mined in the jarrah ...

Bauxite | EPA Western Australia

Bauxite mining on the Darling Range in the southwest of WA for the years 2022 to 2026.

Restoring jarrah forest in southwestern Australia after …

Restoring jarrah forest in southwestern Australia after bauxite mining Andy Seiser . Introduction . Alcoa of Australia Limited is the world's largest bauxite miner and alumina refiner. This company has mined bauxite in the jarrah forest in western Australia since 1963, and the first restorations were carried out in 1966 (Koch and Ward 1994).

Amrun Bauxite Project, Cape York, Australia

Credit: Aggreko. The Amrun bauxite project (formerly South of Embley Project) is located near Boyd Point, 40km south of the existing Weipa mine and 40km north of Aurukun on the Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, Australia. The project is owned by Rio Tinto and involves the development of two mining areas, namely …

Decommissioning Alcoa's First Bauxite Mine in the Jarrah …

Abstract: Alcoa World Alumina Australia currently operates two bauxite mines at Willowdale and Huntly in the Darling Range of south-western Western Australia, 80-140 km south of Perth (Figure 1). Huntly is the largest bauxite mine in the world, producing over 20 million t of ore every year. The bauxite from the two mines is processed into alumina …

Bauxite miner hits out at West Australia's permitting delays

Aug 22, 2023 – 5.40pm. Alumina Limited chief executive Mike Ferraro has welcomed further regulatory oversight of his bauxite mines in Western Australia but says the company can't tolerate the ...

The where, when and what of phosphorus fertilisation for …

The mining-restoration system and ecosystem development following bauxite mining in a biodiverse environment of the seasonally dry tropics, Northern Territory, Australia M. Tibbett (Ed.), Mining in Ecologically Sensitive Landscapes, CRC Press, Netherlands ( 2015 ), pp. 159 - 227

(PDF) Synthesis: Is Alcoa Successfully Restoring a Jarrah Forest

Bauxite mining restoration by Alcoa movement and treatment means that a mechanized World Alumina Australia in Western Australia: social, political, his- approach is inevitable from the start. It could be argued torical and environmental contexts.

Restoration Following Bauxite Mining In Western …

800,000 and because of this close proximity to the capital, bauxite mining is being done on lands that are subjected to multiple usage. These uses include urban water catchment, timber production, recreation, and flora and fauna conservation. Reclamation of bauxite-mined lands in western Australia began in 1966 three years after

Meet Australia's only pure-play bauxite producer

The Bauxite Hills mine is located 95km north of Weipa on Western Cape York, near the coast on the Skardon River in far north Queensland. Mining operations commenced at the site in April 2018.

Worsley Mine Development

Worsley Alumina is an integrated bauxite mining and alumina refining operation in the South West of Western Australia. Beginning operations in 1984, it is today recognised as one of the largest alumina refineries in the world. We are proposing the next phase of bauxite mining near the town of Boddington, providing access to future reserves and ...

Restoring Botanical Richness after Bauxite Mining

The jarrah forest is a highly valued resource for the people of Western Australia. It is renowned for its diverse flora, being one of the most plant-species-rich forests in the world outside of tropical rain forests. The program started with five-year improvement milestones. The first milestone was to achieve 80 per cent of forest-species richness.

CBG Bauxite (Aluminium Ore) Mining Operations

The CBG mining fleet consists of Demag H185 excavators, 992C and 992D wheel loaders, and 17 777B and 777D trucks. The vehicles are fitted with 'greedy boards' to its older 777B trucks to increase their capacity to that of the 777Ds. The dried ore at CBG is held in a 150,000t-capacity covered stockpile, and then ...

World's ten largest bauxite mines in 2020

Here are the ten largest bauxite mines by production across the world in 2020, according to GlobalData's mining database. 1. Weipa Mine. The Weipa Mine is a surface mine situated in Queensland, Australia. Owned by Rio Tinto, the brownfield mine produced an estimated 35.009 mtpa of bauxite in 2020.

Production of Bauxite in Australia, 2020

Rio Tinto's Weipa mine in Queensland has the largest reserves and Boddington Bauxite in Western Australia has average grades which is among the world's highest-grade deposits. ... construction, packaging, electrical, machinery equipment and consumer goods industries. During the first four months of 2021, China produced majority of aluminum ...

(PDF) Restoring Jarrah Forest after Bauxite Mining in Western Australia

Chemical fertilisation is common to all Australian bauxite mines as studies have shown that natural fertility after soil movement is too low to secure significant seedling establishment and vigour ...

Worsley Mine Development

Worsley Alumina is an integrated bauxite mining and alumina refining operation in the South West of Western Australia. Beginning operations in 1984, it is today recognised as one of the largest alumina refineries in …

Fact Sheet

alumina refineries. It was established in 1976 and is located east of North Dandalup in Western Australia (WA). • Huntly mines bauxite from within a defined Mineral Lease, known as ML1SA. To date, we have cleared less than 4 per cent of our mineral lease. • As bauxite forms in shallow pods, a constantly moving mining footprint occurs ...