Reuters reported that normal operations have restarted at Guinea CBG after workers downed tools at the Alcoa, Rio Tinto and Guinean government bauxite JV over wage negotiations.

Mr Kemoko Toure DG of CBG said that employees had decided to go on a general strike demanding better wages and living conditions after rejecting management's proposals during annual wage negotiations. Work has restarted this morning after 48 hours strike. We reached an accord with the unions.

An employee said that minimum service was maintained during the strike and bauxite export were not affected.

CBG is 51% owned by Halco Mining, JV between Rio Tinto, Alcoa and Dadco Mining while the Guinean government owns the other 49%. It is the world's single largest bauxite export company. CBG exported a record 13.7 million tonnes of the aluminum ore bauxite in 2008, the latest year for which data is available.

(Sourced from Reuters)