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Asian Metal successfully held the 8th World Aluminum Raw Materials Summit 2017 during May 18-20 in Sanya, Hainan. The summit focused on imported bauxite and covered alumina, electrolytic aluminum, aluminum fluoride and carbon. Over 300 delegates from China, Russia, Malaysia, Australia, India, Guinea, USA, the UK, France, Indonesia, Singapore, Turkey and Iran attended the summit. The summit created excellent condition for Belt and Road Initiative in aluminum industry and stimulated China’s investment in bauxite overseas and guaranteed safe production of alumina in China.
The summit was sponsored by Alcoa, Eurasian Resources, Metro Mining, Alufer Mining, Zibo Rundi Aluminum Industry Co., Ltd., Weihai Neptune Cyclone Co., Ltd. and Shandong Junhai Energy Energy Co., Ltd.
It was a great honor for us to invite 13 speakers to attend the summit. Most of them are from large enterprises from both home and abroad, related governmental departments and aluminum association. During the summit, they gave us wonderful speeches about bauxite, alumina, electrolytic aluminum and aluminum fluoride.
We will continue to work hard to create international platform and feature summit based on aluminum raw materials in the future.
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Jia Shujie, Chairman of Zibo Rundi Aluminum Industry Co., Ltd.
The Guinean Kakande bauxite project of Rundi Aluminum can be considered as the overseas strategy model of Chinese private aluminum companies and has brought opportunities for market participants to make wealth. The known reserves of gibbsite bauxite in Kakade mining district of Rundi Aluminum have been nearly 500 million tons now with net present values of USD1.38 billion. The annual exploitation volume can reach 10 million tons after two years of rapid construction.
Ron Knapp, Secretary General of International Aluminum Institute
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Zheng Qian, Marketing Manager of Guizhou Huajin Aluminum Co. Ltd.
Wang Shuai, Executive Director of Analysis Department of Huatai Financial Holdings (Hong Kong) Limited
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Zheng Jimin, Director of Research Department of Weihai Neptune Cyclone Co., Ltd.
Gu Zhengyan, Secretary General of Fluoride Industry Branch of China Inorganic Salts Industry Association
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M. Ahmed KANTE, Former Minister of Mines in Guinea, Current General Manager of SOGUIPAMI
Yin Zhonglin, Director of Alumina Research Division from Chalco Zhengzhou Research Institute
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Mitch Loan, Business Development & Technical Manager; Cyrus Liu, Chinese Commercial Lead of Alcoa
Alcoa started to exploit bauxite in 1916 with known reserves of 243 million tons. Its mining districts are located in several large reserving countries of bauxite—Guinea, Australia and Brazil (reserves of the three country account for about 60% of the global total). The output of bauxite was 45 million dry tons in 2016.
Wang Baolin, Head of China Representative Office, Eurasian Resources
As one of largest mining property in Guinea, the Telimele bauxite project of Eurasian Resources has 5 billion tons of ore reserves and plans to sell ores to China and the Middle East in August 2018.
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Simon Finnis, CEO of Metro Mining Limited
The bauxite project of Metro Mining is located in West Cape York, Queensland, Australia with ore reserves of about 92.20 million tons. The project will go into production in April 2018 based on plans and its designed capacity will be 6 million tons per year with the output in the first year to be 2 million tons.
Tristan Clarke, Commercial Director of Alufer Mining
The Bel Air bauxite project of Alufer Mining in Guinea plans to go into production in the third quarter of 2018 with annual output of 5.5 million tons in initial stage. It is expected that the life of its mine can reach 17 years.
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Tea break
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Go Sightseeing
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