Guinea’s bauxite exports rose 25% in \u200b2025 to 182.8 million metric tons, official data seen by Reuters showed, \u200ccementing its dominance in aluminum ore supply.<\/p>\n
A record 74% of shipments went to China, according to Chinese customs data, as Beijing tightens its grip over Guinea’s vast resources.<\/p>\n
Guinea overtook Australia as the world’s No. 1 bauxite exporter in 2023, said Fitch Solutions’ BMI research firm, persistently posting double-digit \u200coutput growth.<\/p>\n
The mines ministry data showed 23 companies shipped bauxite in 2025. \u200bChina’s Chalco led with 22.1 million tons, followed by CBG\u2014a company majority owned by a consortium including mining firms Rio Tinto and Alcoa\u2014with 17.4 million tons.<\/p>\n
SMB, Guinea’s first \u200dprivate bauxite exporter, and the largely Guinean-owned AGB2A\/SDM joint venture shipped 17.0 million tons each.<\/p>\n
Exports slowed in the second half but rose 16% to 84 million tons.<\/p>\n
BEIJING TIGHTENS GRIP ON GUINEA RESOURCES<\/strong><\/p>\n China remains the \u2060main beneficiary of Guinea’s mining boom, controlling over 60% of the giant\u00a0Simandou iron ore project\u00a0\u200dthat began producing last year and holding stakes in gold and lithium projects.<\/p>\n China’s bauxite imports jumped 26.4% \u200cin \u200c2025 to 200.5 million tons on Guinean supply, data from its General Administration of Customs showed.<\/p>\n A Citi note said Guinea had shipped China 150 million tons of bauxite by November\u2014over 80% of the feedstock Beijing needed for its 45 million-ton aluminum smelting plants.<\/p>\n GUINEA OUTPUT WEAKENS <\/strong>\u2060GLOBAL PRICES<\/strong><\/p>\n Guinea\u2019s output surge \u2060came as China capped\u00a0smelting \u200bcapacity, pushing down prices. Shanghai alumina\u00a0fell 48%\u00a0in the first 10 months of 2025.<\/p>\n The mines minister\u00a0told Reuters\u00a0in November the government is accelerating plans for domestic alumina refineries and iron-ore pellet plants to \u200dreduce raw exports.<\/p>\n “We are finally seeing production growth translate into state finances,” said Bernabe Sanchez, principal mineral economist at Canadian consultancy CPCS, citing the Guinea budget ministry\u2019s projections for a 40% rise in 2025 revenues.<\/p>\n He \u200bexpects strong exports to continue as state-owned Nimba and \u200dAxis Mining ramp up production.<\/p>\n Weekly ministry data for January 12\u201318 showed 4.9 million tons of bauxite and 175,880 tons \u200bof iron ore shipped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Guinea’s bauxite exports rose 25% in \u200b2025 to 182.8 million metric tons, official data seen by Reuters showed, \u200ccementing its dominance in aluminum ore supply. A record 74% of shipments went to China, according to Chinese customs data, as Beijing tightens its grip over Guinea’s vast resources. Guinea overtook Australia as the world’s No. 1 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":6,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","source_name":"Reuters","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2362,3028,27],"tags":[396,248],"class_list":["post-19391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-mining","category-west-africa","tag-china","tag-guinea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19392,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19391\/revisions\/19392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}