Guinea continued to execute record bauxite shipments to China as demand from the world’s largest aluminium producer

China alone is projected to account for 47 per cent of this growth, CRU data shows

ASX-listed Canyon Resources’ Minim Martap bauxite project, in Cameroon, remains on schedule for first production and an initial bauxite shipment in late June

The list includes iron ore, bauxite, limestone, manganese, dolomite and even a copper and gold block.

Meanwhile, due to insufficient year-end consumption expectations on the demand side, the market will experience a significant oversupply.

A smelter shutdown in Mozambique is set to dent global aluminium supplies next year, analysts say, leaving the plant's core European Union customers searching for alternatives.

A Russian court has ruled in favour of Rusal in the aluminium giant's 104.75-billion-rouble ($1.32-billion) lawsuit against global mining and metals company Rio Tinto, according to court documents.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced on Friday a rescue effort to keep open Australia's largest aluminium smelter, the struggling Tomago facility majority-owned by Rio Tinto, after its current power contract expires in 2028.