Guinea bauxite exports have surged in 2025, driven by record shipments to China and reinforcing Guinea’s dominance in the global bauxite market. As oversupply weighs on alumina prices, market participants are increasingly focused on cost control, freight management and transparent FOB pricing mechanisms.

Following an informal consultation with the market, and a review of typical data sets that are collected over the recent months, Fastmarkets now proposes to increase the frequency of MB-BX-0016 Bauxite, cif China, $/dmt price to weekly basis and extend the timing of the price to reflect cargoes for arrival within 90 days, as well as moving the publish time to Friday from Wednesday.

Fastmarkets has launched the MB-BX-0017 Bauxite, FOB Guinea price, $/dmt on Friday December 19, 2025.

Falling alumina prices, geopolitics and a volatile aluminium market will be the hot topics during the Fastmarkets’ annual Bauxite & Alumina Conference, taking place in Miami, Florida on April 2-4.

Fastmarkets launched a new alumina index for Indonesian material on Monday September 2 ahead of the International Critical Minerals and Mining Summit to be held in Bali later this week.

Take a look at the five key talking points across the aluminium raw material markets ahead of Fastmarkets’ Bauxite & Alumina Conference

A growing focus by consumers on Scope 3 carbon emissions is putting raw materials, such as bauxite and alumina, in the spotlight

Glencore has started to beef up its aluminium business unit with the acquisition of stakes in bauxite and alumina assets

The fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is changing global trade flows for bauxite, with Brazilian material once again flowing into China and with the introduction of export restrictions elsewhere likely to influence availability through 2023

Fastmarkets has amended the specifications and publishing time of its price assessment for Bauxite fob Brazil following an extended consultation