Compagnie des bauxites de Kindia (CBK) is a Guinean company in the mining sector.
They operate open-air mining pits and use two primary extraction methods: drilling and blasting technology, and thin-layer production using Wirtgen 2200SM mining machines [4] CBK was founded as a wholly state-owned enterprise, but was later transformed into a limited liability corporation, Société des Bauxites de Kindia.
In 2001, SBK was transferred to the Russian mining giant RUSAL (Russki Alumina), for a 25 year term, and has since been operating as CBK.
It supplies over 65 percent of its total bauxite output to the Nikolaev alumina refinery in Ukraine whereas the rest is exported to other locations.
They showed their support by marching on the companies train tracks, temporarily preventing shipments from reaching the port.