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About us
- About us
- Corporate profile
- Our history
- Our leadership
- Our purpose, mission and values
- Our role in the aluminium value chain
- Corporate governance
- Disclosures
- Our policies and certifications
Guinea Alumina Corporation is the bauxite mining subsidiary of Emirates Global Aluminium, the world’s largest ‘premium aluminium’ producer. We mine and move bauxite, the ore from which aluminium is derived.
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Operations
- Operations
- Mining
- Railway
- Port
Guinea Alumina Corporation operates significant infrastructure in the province of Boké to mine bauxite ore and move it to the coast at Kamsar for export.
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Sustainability
- Sustainability
- Embedding sustainability in everything we do
- Governance
- Environment
- Social
Aluminium’s use plays an essential role in improving transport efficiency, reducing energy consumption and global greenhouse gas emissions. But any aluminium production starts with the mining of bauxite ore which must be undertaken with due care and respect for people and for our planet.
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Railway
GAC’s mine and port are some 90 kilometres apart, and we use shared rail infrastructure to move our bauxite ore to the coast.
Each ore train consists of three locomotives and up to 150 wagons. Each wagon can hold 86 tonnes of ore.
The trains are loaded from the mine stockpile by a fleet of four front-end loaders. The load rate equates to less than two minutes per wagon.
Fully-loaded trains can carry some 12,900 tonnes of ore, similar in weight to the Eiffel Tower. The journey to the coast takes approximately three hours.
