"The QBL company is NOW UPGRADING its exploration
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"Direct Shipping Ore (DSO) generally means that the company can just dig the minerals out of the ground and ship them to customers, with very little need for processing. That should mean low production costs, and potentially, substantial profits. Surface deposit bauxite mining is reported to cost around $10 a tonne before transport and port costs.
Bauxite prices have surged to a 7-year record high recently, after Indonesia implemented a ban on exports of the raw commodity in a move designed to encourage producers to process the raw material at refineries in Indonesia - and the Rusal US blockade recently"