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WESTERN AUSTRALIA
BAUXITE LOGICAL SOURCE
FOR CHINESE REFINERIES
Currently India and Australia are the two
major sources of bauxite into China.
However India has recently increased
taxes on bauxite exports in an attempt to
promote local mineral development and
internal use of bauxite.
Forecasts are showing that China will
need to import some 85Mt of bauxite per
annum by 2022 requiring around 45Mt
of additional supply over 2012 levels.
Australia and to a lesser extent West Africa
contain the closest, largest sources of
bauxite able to supply the forecast future
demand for bauxite in China.
Australia, due to its location, is better
situated from a logistics perspective to
supply a large percentage of this additional
demand. Darling Range bauxite is a
very efficient bauxite to process and is
located around 4,300 nautical miles from
the Eastern Chinese ports compared to
Guinea which is over 11,000 nautical miles
from those same ports.
Imports of Bauxite into China
Country
2012
2013
H1 2013
H2 2013
H1 2014
April-June 2013 April-June 2014
India
1,073
5,392
3,442
1,950
1,681
1,923
1,481
Indonesia
28,319
48,702
21,621
27,081
8,790
12,425
45
Australia
9,423
14,289
6,677
7,612
6,752
4,006
3,670
Guinea
828
582
246
184
189
59
Dominican Republic
302
302
1,023
528
Ghana
670
165
505
459
91
255
Brazil
767
160
607
462
107
287
Guyana
132
30
30
32
32
Fiji
286
459
154
305
114
102
114
Other
474
93
45
48
204
45
154
Total
39,707
71,532
32,876
38,656
19,701
18,888
6,625
Source: Various Antaike Reports
SHIPPING ROUTES TO CHINA
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