In a video posted on Facebook, The head of Guinea's military government, Mamady Doumbouya, warned foreign mining companies to set up processing plants and share revenues equally with the country.
Doumbouya forderte die beiden Unternehmen auf, bis Ende Mai Vorschläge und einen Zeitplan für den Bau der Bauxithütte vorzulegen.
Guinea has the world's largest reserves of bauxite, estimated at 7.4 billion tons, and is the second-largest producer of the mineral.
Bauxit ist ein Mineral, das zur Herstellung von Aluminium verwendet wird, das für die Auto- und Lebensmittelindustrie von entscheidender Bedeutung ist.
About half of China's bauxite needs come from Guinea.
Es ist allgemein bekannt, dass die Vorteile des Abbaus von Bauxit oder anderen reichen natürlichen Ressourcen wie Eisen, Gold und Diamanten ungleich bleiben.
Experten weisen auf fehlende Investitionen in die lokale Wirtschaftsentwicklung, einen Mangel an grundlegender Infrastruktur wie Straßen, endemische Korruption und Schlupflöcher in bestehenden Gesetzen hin. Infolgedessen bleibt Guinea eines der ärmsten Länder der Welt, obwohl es reich an natürlichen Ressourcen ist.
"Despite the boom in bauxite mining, we have to admit that expected revenues are lower than expected, and we cannot continue this stupid game that perpetuates huge inequality in our relations," Doumbouya said in the video.
Guinea-Bauxit hat eine Reihe aktiver Akteure, darunter Win Alliance (SMB), ein Konsortium aus Vallee International, Shandong Weiqiao und Yantai Port mit Sitz in Singapur-, sowie die russischen Aluminiumunternehmen Rusal und Rio Tinto und Chinalco aus China.
The Bauxite project is the largest mining project in Guinea, supplying more than half of the total imports of bauxite to China every year. The smooth operation of the project is of great significance to the resource security of China's aluminum industry.
Mr Doumbouya said smelting bauxite in Guinea "is becoming inevitable, it is imperative and it cannot be delayed".
Doumbouya stressed that previous agreements between the Guinean government and different groups stipulated that smelting would be carried out locally, but those promises had not been fulfilled. The failure to respect these agreements was "invalid cause" and their application was "non-negotiable" for the government.
On March 27, The African mining circle reported in the article "Guinea's military government, Winning Alliance and Rio Tinto sign an agreement, Simandou Iron Ore Mine may Resume operation, vying for the right to transport minerals" : Guinea, the world's largest exporter of bauxite, has a law giving it the right to ship mining companies 50 percent of their bauxite exports, but that law has only now come into effect, government spokesman Ousmane Gaoual Diallo said in an emailed statement late Thursday.
Since taking power last year, guinea's military government has been negotiating and pressuring international mining giants around core interests such as Simandou iron ore, bauxite, railway construction and transportation rights, hoping to gain more benefits from the development of mineral resources.
