Shanxi Province issued an emergency notice asking all non-coal underground mines in the province to suspend production and conduct major production inspections.
The output of bauxite in Shanxi Province accounts for about 40pc of the total bauxite in the country. Following this notice, the participants were worried that the production suspension of non-coal mines may affect the supply of bauxite resources.
Most of the bauxite mines in Shanxi Province are open-pit mining, there are fewer mines using underground tunnel mining. It is expected that the emergency notification of the shutdown of Shanxi’s non-coal underground mines will affect the industry chain of local bauxite mines.