Following the coup, bauxite prices in Guinea surged, significantly impacting China's resource strategy.
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2025/11/17
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The recent coup in Guinea has had a significant impact on both China’s aluminum and steel industries.
The recent coup in Guinea has had a significant impact on both China’s aluminum and steel industries.
In 1963, a consortium comprising Alcoa, Rio Tinto, and other companies, together with the Guinean government, established the Bauxite Company, which specialized in bauxite mining near Sangaredi. Through capital maneuvers, the United States managed to gain control of roughly 40% of Guinea’s fiscal revenue by holding a 22.95% stake. In 2002, Rusal acquired bauxite mines in Guinea, including those in Kindia, attempting to break the monopoly. The U.S. government responded by imposing sanctions, leaving Rusal in a state of prolonged production stoppages or partial shutdowns. Around 2015, companies across the aluminum value chain began entering Guinea one after another: Singapore’s Vele Group, responsible for mining and waterborne transportation; China’s Yantai Port Group, tasked with constructing and operating ports along the route from Guinea to Yantai; and China’s Hongqiao Group, which focused on equipment leasing and bauxite processing. This powerful upstream-downstream alliance dealt a severe blow to Alcoa, causing it to lose its pricing power over global bauxite supplies. Subsequently, U.S. short-selling firms issued highly misleading and baseless negative reports targeting Shandong Weiqiao Group, resulting in a market-capitalization plunge of 4.3 billion for Hongqiao. In 2018, Chinalco secured the bauxite mining project in Guinea’s Boffa district. Since Chinalco had earlier placed greater emphasis on the Simandou iron ore mine, the quality of the bauxite it mined was somewhat lower than that processed by Hongqiao. Following this, international mining companies from the UAE, Australia, France, the UK, and other countries continued to flock into Guinea, effectively leading to the near-complete contracting of mining areas by various nations.
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