The BBC reported yesterday that Global Alumina – a Canadian-listed corporation – has partnered with the US-sponsored African Development Foundation (ADF) to structure a triple bottom line approach to mining in Guinea. The small West African country is among the poorest in the world, but it is rich in bauxite. When refined into alumina - the aluminium ore from which aluminium is made - bauxite can fetch a price that would give its beneficiaries a significant economic boost. Global Alumina’s plan would channel the spillover effects of these profits toward tens of thousands of workers in Guinea.

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