202252 · In Jamaica, ALCOA (Aluminum Company of America), the largest producer of aluminum in the world, has been mining bauxite since 1963, converting Jamaica in the sixth largest bauxite producer in the world, right after Australia, Guinea, Brazil, China and India. Since 2004, ALCOA has been prospecting for bauxite in Cockpit Country, a Maroon …
view more2022429 · The JISCO Alpart plant in St Elizabeth. Bauxite-alumina producer JISCO Alpart is looking to mine more ore for the company’s plant, which is expanding at a cost of US$1.1 billion. It will be digging through 700 acres in an area referred to as as the ‘Outer Valley’ that would require the relocation of small farmers operating there ...
view more2023130 · ELAW partners in Jamaica are celebrating a January 20 Supreme Court order halting bauxite mining next to communities in St. Ann until a claim brought by nine residents is heard later this year. The claimants live within three different mining leases which overlap with a contested area, omitted from the Cockpit Country Protected Area, …
view more2016923 · Rapid degradation of disturbed soil from a karst bauxite mine in Jamaica was recorded. Substantial macro-nutrient losses occurred during a short (1 month) or long (12 months) storage of the replaced top …
view more201266 · 60 years of bauxite mining in Ja - Part II. Cartlon E Davis, Contributor. TWO NOTABLE developments led to the emergence of two US companies, Reynolds Metals and Kaiser Aluminium, to join Alcan in developing the Jamaican industry. One, was the determination of the US Government and its courts to end Alcoa's long monopoly of the …
view more2022810 · Environmental impact of mining. THE EDITOR, Madam: In the last five decades, mining activity, particularly bauxite mining, has led to the loss of tree cover in 5,099 hectares of land and the loss of 3,214 hectares of forest cover. A hectare is 107,639.104 square feet or, put another way, an acre is about 0.405 hectares, and one hectare …
view more2022627 · Jamaica Gleaner. How bauxite mining changed St Ann. 2022-06-27 - Keisha Hill/Senior Gleaner Writer [email protected]. JAMAICA’S BAUXITE and alumina industry was launched in the hills just north of Ocho Rios, St Ann. This development started the metamorphosis of the tiny fishing village, that the town became renowned for …
view more2021716 · F or the second time in five years, Noranda Jamaica Bauxite, an operation of American company New Day Aluminum Holdings LLC, has changed ownership. Concord Resources Holdings Limited, a former minority shareholder in New …
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