Jan. 21, 2010
British mining company Vedanta Resources is hopeful of getting bauxite for its alumina refinery in Orissa soon, the company's chairman Anil Agarwal said Thursday.
The London-headquartered metals and mining company has built a one million tonne per annum capacity alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in the state's Kalahandi district, some 600 km from here. But the company is facing a raw material shortage and has to procure bauxite from other states as the Centre is yet to allow mining in the Niyamgiri mines, which is yet to get the final nod from the central government.
"We are getting bauxite from other states," Agarwal said after talks with Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and senior government officials.
"He (Patnaik) has promised us and said that they were sitting on the fourth largest reserve of bauxite. Bauxite should not be a problem. All the bauxite required for the refinery will be provided and the process is on," he said, citing the chief minister.
British mining company Vedanta Resources is hopeful of getting bauxite for its alumina refinery in Orissa soon, the company's chairman Anil Agarwal said Thursday.
The London-headquartered metals and mining company has built a one million tonne per annum capacity alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in the state's Kalahandi district, some 600 km from here. But the company is facing a raw material shortage and has to procure bauxite from other states as the Centre is yet to allow mining in the Niyamgiri mines, which is yet to get the final nod from the central government.
"We are getting bauxite from other states," Agarwal said after talks with Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and senior government officials.
"He (Patnaik) has promised us and said that they were sitting on the fourth largest reserve of bauxite. Bauxite should not be a problem. All the bauxite required for the refinery will be provided and the process is on," he said, citing the chief minister.
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