Nine Things To Know About The Aluminum …

In 1952, the first shipment of bauxite was exported from Jamaica, and the first batch of alumina was processed in Jamaica. By the 1960s, Jamaica had become the largest producer of bauxite in the world. Smelting …

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 … See more

The Bauxite Industry and Its Development | SpringerLink

The evolution of Jamaica's bauxite industry is explored. Jamaican bauxite was seemingly a subeconomic resource until innovative research upgraded it to a valuable commodity which provided great financial benefit to the country. The aluminium industry is global, highly political, and complex, and Jamaica's journey of 70 years of commercial ...

The bauxite industry revival

The Jamaica Government has also created major players in the industry, Jamaica Bauxite Institute and BATCO, its bauxite and alumina trading arm. CAP, wholly owned by the Government, and JBM.

The export of bauxite/alumina | Commentary

However, the importance of this industry to the Jamaican economy remains in spite of all these challenges. It was interesting to note from STATIN statistics that in 2019, alumina was 42 per cent of the total value of all goods exports; and in 2020 and 2021, 35 per cent. In the 1950s and 1960s, bauxite mining in Jamaica was the new industry ...

Red Dirt: A Multidisciplinary Review of the Bauxite-Alumina Industry …

Red Dirt: A Multidisciplinary Review of the Bauxite-Alumina Industry in Jamaica. Our study seeks to describe the history, evaluate the regulatory framework, and investigate the impact of the bauxite-alumina industry on Jamaica's land, economy, and people over almost seven decades. The topics covered by this study are: the bauxite …

Costs of the bauxite-alumina industry outweigh

The costs of the bauxite-alumina industry far outweigh its benefits, asserts JET, which has served as a watchdog for the industry. The list of negative impacts cited is a long one. Rodriguez ...

Social impact of the bauxite-alumina industry

1. 2. The social impact of the bauxite-alumina industry on Jamaica's small rural communities has been, for the most part, very hurtful. Communities were directly impacted by being forced to relocate or face mining pits literally in their front gardens. Relocation meant loss of community as not all members were moved to the same sites, …

Trailblazing Jamaica's Bauxite Industry – Business Pursuit …

Trailblazing Jamaica's Bauxite Industry. Jamalco, a name synonymous with responsible bauxite mining and alumina production, has solidified its position as a leading player in Jamaica's mining sector. ... The revenue generated from its bauxite mining and alumina production activities amplifies the positive effects, contributing to government ...

The Biggest Industries In Jamaica

The mining industry is another significant economic driver in Jamaica and accounts for an estimated 4.1% of the island nation's GDP. The country is one of the world's largest producers of alumina and bauxite and produces over 12.6 million tons and 3.46 million tons of bauxite and alumina respectively annually.

Is bauxite mining/alumina refining worth the trouble?

Residents in areas where bauxite and other minerals are mined, as well as those living close to alumina refining plants are often caught in a quandary. On the one hand they welcome the jobs and ...

Social impact of the bauxite-alumina industry

THE SOCIAL impact of the bauxite-alumina industry on Jamaica's small rural communitie­s has been, for the most part, very hurtful. Communitie­s were directly impacted by being forced to relocate or face mining pits literally in their front gardens. Relocation meant loss of community as not all members were moved to the same sites, …

The Evolution of Bauxite Mining in Jamaica Modern …

Jamaican Bauxite Industry Map Travaux 47, Proceedings of the 36th International ICSOBA Conference, Belem, Brazil, 29 October - 1 November, 2018 79. ... hourly paid and contractors) in the bauxite and alumina industry, government officials, unions, suppliers and other categories - long accustomed to the ground rules, management style, ...

The revitalization of Jamaica's mining sector | The Japan …

The island's bauxite and alumina industry is retaking its place on the world stage, while investors explore Jamaica's other minerals. Robert Montague Minister of Transport and Mining "The ...

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

By 1993 Jamaica was the world's 4th largest producer of bauxite (9% or 11 million tonnes) a position which it still holds today. Jamaica is also the 4th largest producer of smelter grade alumina ...

Diana McCaulay | On choosing not to know: The bauxite-alumina industry …

This dearth of information led JET to commission a multidisciplinary review of the bauxite-alumina industry in Jamaica titled RED DIRT, which was released in December 2020. Given the varied impacts of the industry, JET contracted seven authors, all experts in their field, to describe and interrogate bauxite's history, regulatory …

THE JAMAICAN BAUXITE INDUSTRY: GLIMPSES INTO …

markets by the aluminum industry the Jamaican industry grew significantly during the 1960s. As illustrated in Table 2, bauxite production grew from 5.9 million MT at the beginning of the decade to 10.5 million MT at the end. Some of this bauxite growth was in alumina (AI203) production. By the end of the decade, six

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The future is now – bauxite, alumina, aluminium

Jerome Maxwell, managing director, JAMALCO; Pansy Johnson, Jamaica's first general manager of a bauxite operation, and Delroy Dell, vice-president and country manager of the 100 per cent Jamaican staffed Discovery Bauxite Partners. These and other Jamaican giants of the industry have been and are responsible for the million …

Lance Neita | Bauxite industry's resilience important to Jamaica…

Jamaica's bauxite and alumina industry continues to play an important role in the country's economic and social development and is one of the few industries that remained up and running during the full-blown COVID-19 pandemic. As Prince Buster sang in 1966, "Dem seh, ...

Bauxite-alumina industry – an unequal sace

To understand the way individuals are compensated by the bauxite-alumina companies, the Jamaica Environment Trust (JET) conducted a recent study titled Compensation within the Bauxite- Alumina Industry ... • There are no standard national or industry guidelines to cover compensation. There is wide variation in levels of …

Bauxite industry export upbeat on recovery, wary of

Global industry consolidation that has given rise to Chinese firms cornering the bauxite-alumina market, Foster says, has hurt the profitability of Western companies, leading to their demise, with Noranda's alumina plant in Gramercy, Louisiana, being the sole surviving alumina operation in the United States, from nine when he started out in …

Public health impacts of bauxite-alumina industry

1. 2. The public health impacts of the bauxite-alumina industry in Jamaica are the focus of this article. These impacts have been explored using community complaints from across the island reported in the media and the review of the only three known studies of the impacts on the health of nearby communities. The findings are limited by lack of ...

Jamaica

Jamaica's bauxite is not extremely alumina pure; one ton of Jamaican bauxite contains only about 0.4 tons of alumina. The island's bauxite comparative advantage lies in the easy extraction of the metal ore as a result of its close proximity to the surface. ... Jamaica's bauxite industry must import large amounts of caustic soda and heavy ...

JAMAICA'S BAUXITE & ALUMINA INDUSTRY

At the end of the 1970s, Guinea in West Africa, which had the world's highest grade bauxite, also drew ahead of Jamaica, and is now producing about 18 million tonnes of bauxite a year. Jamaica's share of world bauxite output has therefore fallen from 18.1% in the 1970s to 8.1% of the 180 million tonnes of bauxite produced worldwide in 2005.

Economy of Jamaica

The economy of Jamaica is heavily reliant on services, accounting for 71% of the country's GDP. Jamaica has natural resources and a climate conducive to agriculture and tourism. The discovery of bauxite in the 1940s and the subsequent establishment of the bauxite-alumina industry shifted Jamaica's economy from sugar, and bananas.. Weakness in …

Bauxite in Jamaica

Bauxite is the ore from which aluminium is made. Jamaica contains some of the largest known deposits of bauxite in the world. The mining areas are located in the western and central parts of the island. After mining, most of the bauxite is carried to alumina plants where it is refined into alumina. The alumina (or in some cases unrefined ...

Clarke says bauxite/alumina concessions still needed

MINISTER of Finance and the Public Service Dr Nigel Clarke says the concessions on fuel and diesel oil purchased by bauxite/alumina companies operating in Jamaica are necessary to help keep them a...

Jamaica's Bauxite and Alumina Industries

The capital required to develop the bauxite and alumina industries has very largely come from North America, some of it in the form of Marshall Aid.6 In the early 1950's, capital inflows, particularly from Canada, were very considerable. By the time the first shipload of bauxite ore left Jamaica in 1952 $100,000,000 had been invested in the ...

THE BAUXITE AND ALUMINA INDUSTRIES …

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