Gove: a bauxite operation in Australia

Gove is an open-pit mine producing bauxite in Gove, Northern Territory, Australia, operated by Rio Tinto. The sources report 12,729 thousand tonnes ('000 tonnes), marketable quantities of ore plus concentrates for CY2025; the basis is 100% of the operation (Rio Tinto interest 100%). Measured as bauxite, whole-operation output for CY2025 is 12,729,000 tonnes: about 2.9% of world bauxite output in 2025 and about 13% of Australia's; it is one of 9 operations on this site whose output can be stated in bauxite.

Who owns and operates it?

Interests are as stated in the sources below on the date shown. Ownership changes with deals, so a stake may have changed since the date shown.

How much does it produce?

Between CY2024 and CY2025 the reported figure rose by 0.1%, in the same unit and on the same basis.

How the bauxite figure is worked out. Rio Tinto prints 12,729 thousand tonnes for Gove in 2025 in both the Total column and the Rio Tinto share column (100% interest), so the figure covers the whole operation. The table gives marketable quantities of ore plus concentrates and does not say whether the tonnes are dry or wet. Converted from thousand tonnes to tonnes. World bauxite mine production in 2025 was 440,000,000 tonnes (USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026); Australia produced 97,000,000 tonnes.

Status: operating, as of 31 December 2025.

• The Gove alumina refinery is a separate legacy site; this entry covers the bauxite mine only. Alumina refineries and aluminum smelters are separate from this bauxite mine entry.

How does it compare?

Other bauxite operations on this site: Weipa (including Amrun), Porto Trombetas (Mineracao Rio do Norte), Sangaredi (Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinee), Societe Miniere de Boke (SMB), Boffa (Chalco Guinea), Pingguo, Shanxi New Materials mines (merged line), Darling Range (Huntly and Willowdale), Juruti, Pocos de Caldas, Paragominas, Panchpatmali bauxite mines. In Australia: Weipa (including Amrun), Darling Range (Huntly and Willowdale). See where bauxite comes from for the country totals, the country page for Australia, and Rio Tinto for its other operations here.

Sources

• Rio Tinto: Rio Tinto Annual Report 2025 (annual report (filed with the U.S. SEC as an exhibit to Form 6-K), FY2025 (calendar), with 2024 and 2023 comparatives). Opened 4 November 2026; used: PDF p.29 (printed p.27), PDF p.160, PDF pp.278-279 (printed pp.276-277, Metals and minerals production), PDF pp.306-307 (printed pp.304-305, Group mines).
• U.S. Geological Survey: Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026: Bauxite and Alumina (government statistical summary, 2025 (world and country bauxite mine production)). Opened 3 November 2026; used: world mine production and reserves table.

Method and limits

• Reported, not estimated. Output is the figure the operator or owner published, in the unit it used. This site does not estimate output where none is published.
• Shares. A share divides output in bauxite by the USGS world or country total for 2025. Where the operator's year is a fiscal year or the unit is a concentrate or a carbonate equivalent, the share is approximate or not given.
• What is compared. Operators print tonnes of bauxite on a dry or wet basis, or do not say which. USGS bauxite mine production is in dry tonnes, so where the basis differs or is not stated the share is indicative.
• Whole operation or owner's share. The basis column says which. A joint venture's output is never counted twice.
• Partial list. Only operations with a published figure are listed, so the rank is among those on this site, not among every bauxite mine. Shares of a country's output mix periods and bases, so treat them as indicative.
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