Guinea project update

Emirates Global Aluminium has announced that its bauxite mining project in the Republic of Guinea has reached 75 per cent construction completion. The project has a total budgeted project cost of approximately $1.4 billion and is being developed by EGA’s subsidiary Guinea Alumina Corporation. It is the largest greenfield investment in the West African country in the last four decades. First bauxite exports are expected during the second half of 2019. Almost 3,000 people, of whom more than 80 per cent Guineans, are currently building the GAC project. The project has taken some 23 million man hours of work so…