Halco Mining
Halco Mining is an aluminium company based at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA)[citation needed]. The company is organized under the laws of the state of Delaware in the United States. Halco is the 51% owner of the stock of Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinée, the primary aluminium mine and smelter operator in Guinea, known as CBG.
The consortium was established in 1962 by Harvey Aluminium Company to mine bauxite deposits in the Boké region.[1] Halco/CBG owns the rights to mine bauxite in a 10,000 square kilometer area of northwestern Guinea under a seventy five year lease through the year 2038.[2]
Related organizations
[edit]Halco's stock is owned by the following companies:
- Alcoa – 45%
- Rio Tinto Group – 45%
- Dadco Investments Limited – 10%
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Thomas O'Toole, Historical Dictionary of Guinea, 1978, p. 34
- ^ [1] Archived 2006-10-15 at the Wayback Machine See map. [2] Archived 2007-03-11 at the Wayback Machine
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