UC Rusal To Reopen Jamaica Bauxite Refinery | ReggaeMe

(AP) Jamaica's mining minister says a Russian-owned aluminum company is restarting operations at a bauxite refinery that it closed nearly two years ago. James Robertson says West Indies Alumina Jamaica Ltd. will reopen a plant in Manchester parish by July. He said Tuesday that some 1,000 jobs...

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Good news and the bauxite production levy

This week's announcement by the mining minister, Phillip Paulwell, of UC Rusal's deal with the Government to keep its Ewarton alumina refinery open and install a coal-fired power plant at the facility to enhance its competitiveness is good news...

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India rejects bauxite mining project | Business

India's environment ministry on Tuesday refused Vedanta Resources permission to mine bauxite for its alumina refinery in eastern India, citing violations of environmental and human rights laws...

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Agriculture in the time of bauxite

Last Thursday, Oleg Deripaska's UC Rusal removed the shutters from its 650,000 tonne alumina refinery at Ewarton in St Catherine and has started firing up its kilns. The plant was mothballed for more than a year. Two bits of recent news in the real economy will no doubt have pleased the Golding administration. Last Thursday, Oleg …

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Ocho Rios Port to be upgarded | News | Jamaica Star

Jamaica Bauxite Mining Limited (JBM) is looking to commence work to upgrade the Ocho Rios Port during the current fiscal year. This is according to the 2021/22 Public Bodies Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure, which states that the exercise will serve to enhance the facility's business activities while maximising revenue.

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Opening to rethink bauxite pricing

The effluent that will be mined from is bauxite whipped from Jamaica. They have 35 million tons of the stuff at Gramercy, with more being added all the time. Any future pricing of Jamaica's bauxite, this newspaper believes, should give consideration to the additional economic value of this finite resource.

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JAMAICA'S BAUXITE & ALUMINA INDUSTRY

The bauxite is found in the highlands, from about 1,000 feet above sea level, and ... almost a quarter of all the bauxite mined in the world in that year. Alcan built a second refinery in Jamaica at Ewarton, St. Catherine, in 1959. In 1961, a fourth ... about 18 million tonnes of bauxite a year. Jamaica's share of world bauxite output

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Jamaica Bauxite (Mining & History) | In Jamaica

In 1971, Revere Copper and Brass opened the fourth alumina plant in Jamaica at Maggotty, St. Elizabeth. and Two years later that's 1973, Alcoa, which had been shipping un­processed bauxite since …

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CAP bauxite merger has hurdles to clear

Year-old plans to combine Clarendon Alumina Production, CAP, and Jamaica Bauxite Mining Limited and float the merged business on the stock market may have hit a snag related to CAP's chief asset, Jamalco, which itself was part of a separate...

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Economist touts sovereign fund for bauxite earnings

But Davies said the sector could be revived if coal fired plants were established as an energy source for all three existing alumina refineries. Jamaica earned $1 billion from the bauxite levy in the last fiscal year. Said Davis: "The sector brings in cash. It pays it directly to government accounts. But what do we have to show?"

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60 years of bauxite mining in Jamaica

This first shipment was to mark the start of Jamaica's largest non-service local industry for all but a few of these 60 years. ... and when he found that neither company was interested in s on this matter, he turned to the Dutch Company, Billiton, through whose government he had a connection by virtue of being its Honorary …

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Norris McDonald | Bauxite, health, the Cockpit

We now know, too, that while the country suffered the negative consequences of bauxite mining for the first 20 years, beginning in the mid-1950s, Jamaica supplied bauxite to America "for stockpiling purposes under the barter program".

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What's next for bauxite? | In Focus | Jamaica …

The bauxite capacity of this operation is 4.8 million dry tonnes per year, which is shipped to Noranda's 1.2 million tpy alumina refinery in Gramercy, Louisiana, and also to Sherwin's alumina refinery …

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What after bauxite? | Commentary | Jamaica Gleaner

WE WARNED a week ago against Jamaica falling into a false sense of security over the reopening by UC Rusal of its 650,000 tonne alumina refinery at Ewarton, St Catherine.After all, Rusal's 1.1 million refinery at Naine...

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60 years of bauxite mining in Jamaica

On June 5, 1952, the first shipment was made by Reynolds Jamaica Mines from its port in Ocho Rios to the parent company's alumina plant at Hurricane Creek, Arkansas.

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Editorial | Shaw must grasp bauxite reset

Jamalco remains out of production after the fire at the facility. At the same time, the island's largest alumina refinery, Alpart refinery, owned by China's Jiuquan Iron and Steel (Group) Company, is heading into its third year in mothballs, having been closed by its owners, ostensibly for modernisation and expansion.

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Editorial | Reshape bauxite-alumina industry

Indeed, after 70 years, Jamaica's bauxite/alumina industry faces serious problems and has complex questions to answer about its future. For instance, the island's largest alumina refinery, Alpart, a 1.65 million tonne facility, owned since 2016 by China's Jiuquan Iron and Steel Company (JISCO), has been closed for more than two years.

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JAMAICA'S BAUXITE & ALUMINA INDUSTRY

Two years later, Alcoa, which had been shipping unprocessed bauxite since 1963, built the country's fifth refinery, at Halse Hall, Clarendon. By 1974 Jamaica had become the …

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Badge of Honour for Chemical Engineer Who Has Served at JBI for 40 Years

Mr. Lyew You took the role by the reins and quickly found his niche. ... Bayer process is the chemical procedure used in alumina refineries for the extraction of alumina from bauxite. ... has worked at the Jamaica Bauxite Institute for 40 years and will receive the Badge of Honour for Meritorious Service, on National Heroes Day (October …

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Jamaica Gleaner News

Earlier that year, the JBI reported that some 15 million tonnes of bauxite had been produced in 2006 (The Financial Gleaner, Friday, January 5, 2007, pages 1 & 2). Assuming this production rate can be …

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No benefit from bauxite – residents | News | Jamaica Gleaner

THOUGH EARNING millions of dollars in foreign exchange annually, residents of rural Jamaica continue to question bauxite's benefits to the communities where the refineries are located. Residents in Hayes, New Bowens, and a …

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Kirkvine Refining Plant Near Mandeville, Jamaica

Aluminum mining deposit report for "Deposit #Usgs10182704" (#USGS10182704) in Manchester, Jamaica.

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Bauxite processing in Jamaica and Guyana: An estimate of …

Percentage increases in total value added are generally larger in Jamaica, reflecting Jamaica's greater bauxite production, even relative to the size of its economy. 284 Under the 75% processing scenario, average total value added impacts experienced by Guyana range from approximately 2.5% to 3.2%, while those for Jamaica range from …

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Jamalco

Jamalco is a joint venture between General Alumina Jamaica Limited and Clarendon Alumina Production Limited (CAP) with a focus on bauxite mining and alumina production. ... The venture began alumina production at a new refinery in Halse Hall, Clarendon in 1972 with a production capacity of 500,000 metric tonnes per year (mtpy), …

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Make it a genuine dialogue on bauxite

Phillip Paulwell's proposal for a broad stakeholder dialogue on the future of Jamaica's bauxite-alumina industry is a timely idea that has our support, so long as the exercise is pursued with the kind of rigour and inclusiveness intended by this...

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Jamaica's bauxite/alumina industry: Past, present and future

In 1942 bauxite was found in Jamaica and the island commenced export of the commodity in 1952. By 1960 Jamaica emerged as the world's largest producer of bauxite (22% or 6 …

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Jamaica's bauxite reserves: cause for concern

He wanted me to explain why it was still being reported that Jamaica had reserves of two billions tonnes, when in 2004 the chairman of the Jamaica Bauxite Institute (JBI), Dr Carlton Davis, had gone public and stated that the existing reserves of bauxite ore were about 700 million tonnes and this was equivalent to "only 50 years of bauxite life."

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Restoration of Bauxite Lands in Jamaica: Life after …

Bauxite mining began in Jamaica in 1952, and some attempts at restoration began shortly after. In December 1953, the first Certificate of Restoration was issued by the …

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The Evolution of Bauxite Mining in Jamaica Modern …

Bauxite mining began in Jamaica in the early 1950s. Bauxite was first exported by Reynolds Metal Company. Shortly after this, Kaiser and Alcan also set up mining operations and …

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