Jamaica's bauxite and alumina industry at crossroads
As a former Director of Economics and Statistics at the Jamaica Bauxite Institute (JBI) during the 1980s, I witnessed firsthand the industry's evolution and challenges. ... now comprising over 30 per cent of global output. In contrast, Jamaica grapples with its environmental legacy: 75 years of red mud waste totalling over 100 million ...
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A Clash of Ideologies: Jamaica and the International
Resistance from the Jamaican government was met with reduced bauxite output and therefore reduced earnings from the levy, which served to put the government back into the financing challenge it previously found itself. ... Bryan reported, however, that the levy was likely the nail in the coffin of the industry as it made Jamaican bauxite one of ...
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MINING
The island's share of world bauxite output fell from 18.1% in 1974 to 9.0%in 1983. Production in Jamaica rose by 45.1% to 2.2 million tonnes after a l.3% fall in 1988. Earlier, 1981 had seen a -3.1% fall in bauxite but a 4.15 increase in alumina production. But between 1982 and 1984, during the world recession, both fell considerably.
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Jamaica to sell bauxite/alumina stake to China firm | Reuters
Reduced bauxite and alumina export revenues was one of the factors that forced Jamaica to enter a $1.27 billion standby loan agreement with the International Monetary Fund in February, in a bid to ...
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jamaican bauxite output 2012 – Grinding Mill China
Aug 26, 2012 · … worrying picture for the Jamaican economy based on data collected for April to June 2012 … such as tourism and bauxite con … uncertainties surrounding output … » Free Online Chat. Mining Journal – Jamaican bauxite, alumina output rises. Bauxite output from Jamaican producers rose by 5.2% during the first six months ...
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Jamaica
Jamaica's bauxite reserves are large, exceeding 1.5 billion tons. At the present rate of extraction, reserves could last another 150 years. Jamaica's bauxite is not extremely alumina pure; one ton of Jamaican bauxite contains only about 0.4 tons of alumina.
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Bauxite processing in Jamaica and Guyana: An estimate of …
Francis, A. A., "Modelling the effects of a cutback in bauxite production on the Jamaican economy," Journal of the Geological Society of Jamaica, Proceedings of Bauxite Symposium V (June 1982). Girvan, Norman, The Caribbean Bauxite Industry (Kingston: Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies, 1967).
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Rise and evolution of bauxite industry
The industry rapidly expanded and, by 1957, Jamaica had become the world leader in bauxite production, achieving an impressive output of five million tonnes per year. This period of prosperity significantly boosted the local economy and placed Jamaica on the global map as a key player in the mining sector.
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Jamaica's Mining and Quarrying Sector Performance 2023
Approximately 5.99 million tonnes (Mt) were produced in 2023, of which 34% was processed as crude bauxite, and exported from the Discovery Bay mines mostly to the USA, …
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Farmers in St Elizabeth preparing for major castor bean project
Farmers in the constituency of St Elizabeth North West are preparing to embark on a major castor bean project. Member of Parliament for the area, J.C. Hutchinson, informed that the Jamaica Bauxite Institute (JBI) is in the process of establishing a project, aimed at using mined out bauxite lands to plant castor beans and intercrop these with cash crops.
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The export of bauxite/alumina
In the 1950s and 1960s, bauxite mining in Jamaica was the new industry which heralded robust growth in the country and gave hope that Jamaica was on the road to prosperity as it sought self-determination. Jamaica was the leading bauxite producer in the world and had begun refining it into alumina (aluminium oxide).
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Bauxite Dependency: Roots of Crisis
It mines bauxite in Jamaica, Haiti and Arkansas. Its Guyana mines were nationalized in 1975. Reynolds' smelters include plants in the U.S., Canada and the U.K., where it has a 48 percent interest in England's largest aluminum company. It plans to cut its heavy dependence on Jamaican bauxite through a large joint venture with Alcoa in Australia.
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The bauxite industry — the other side
It is easy to talk glibly about the bauxite industry's community contributions and to dismiss them as obligatory donations towards education, health, agriculture, youth development, and ...
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IMPACT OF JAMAICAN BAUXITE MINERALOGY ON PLANT …
For Bauxite B and Bauxite C with A/S of 7.82 and 3.35, the iron recoveries of 65.13% and 79.13% can be achieved with the corresponding TFe of 52.05% and 50.16% in the iron concentrates by gravity ...
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Jamaican Deforestation and Bauxite Mining
In Jamaica, bauxite mining is considered to be one of the most significant reasons behind deforestation. Within the last few decades, large areas of forest ... when output is being produced at the lowest possible unit cost (Boutiaga, 2002). 3 1.2 Method Using the Coase theorem, which states that as long as property rights are
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Jamaica Bauxite (Mining & History) | In Jamaica
Jamaica's share of world bauxite output fell from 18% in the 1970s to about 2% of total world production of 300 million tonnes in 2018. However, regarding alumina. In 2018, Jamaica was ranked sixth in the world outputting 2.5 million tonnes. China, Australia and Brazil were the top three (3) countries outputting 72 million, 19 million and 7.9 ...
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JAMAICA'S BAUXITE & ALUMINA INDUSTRY
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 …
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(PDF) APPROACHES TO THE PROCESSING OF JAMAICAN BAUXITE …
Jamaican bauxite deposits can broadly be classified into two types, catchment and hillside, depending on their form and topographic setting. The major iron phase in catchment deposits is hematite ...
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Jamaica's Bauxite Industry
Jamaica's Bauxite industry has been a driver of economic growth and development since its discovery in the 1940s. The discovery of substantial bauxite reserves on the island attracted significant foreign investment, funding a new industry and turning Jamaica into a major player in the global aluminum supply chain. In 1952, the first shipload of ...
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JAMAICA'S BAUXITE STRATEGY: THE CARIBBEAN …
fication options. Kaiser took 70 percent of its bauxite from Jamaica, Reynolds 65-90 percent, and Alcoa had facilities specifically geared to the grade of Jamaican ore that made up 10-15 percent of its output. However, the corporations responded quickly to Manley's proposals. Talks soon broke down under the assumption that he was bluffing.
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Jamaica's Bauxite and Alumina Industries
JAMAICA'S BAUXITE AND ALUMINA INDUSTRIES' B. S. YOUNG University of Natal, Durban, South Africa ABSTRACT. In 1952 the first shipload of bauxite left Jamaica for foreign markets, and ... to real output. In other areas the provision of roads, houses, hospitals, water supply schemes, schools, and so forth has apparently been unrelated to a desire ...
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Bauxite Sector To Increase Output This Year
With the expansion of two local bauxite production plants, Jamaica's bauxite sector is expected to see an increase in output this year. Aluminium Partners of Jamaica (ALPART) in St. Elizabeth and Jamalco in Clarendon have expanded their plants.
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Jamaica vs. the Transnationals: Battle Over Bauxite | NACLA
The Jamaican government took several important steps vis-a-vis the bauxite industry in 1974. First, it began negotiations with the companies to take over majority ownership; second, it imposed a substantial levy on bauxite exports; and third, it took a leading role in the formation of the International Bauxite Association, an OPEC-styled producers' organization.
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Green impressed with growth in mining | News | Jamaica …
"The 'Goods Producing Industries' saw increased output levels in 'Mining & Quarrying', which surged by 103.1 per cent. Importantly, half of the country's growth is as a result of the mining sector," the minister declared. ... Under the Bauxite Community Development Programme, the Jamaica Bauxite Institute spent more than 90 per ...
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JAMAICA BAUXITE MINING LTD
Lydford Operations is a wholly owned subsidiary of Jamaica Bauxite Mining Limited and is comprised of the former Reynolds Operations as well as the Port of Ocho Rios. ... The Company mines bauxite and exported of output to overseas alumina processing plants. JBM received an annual Use of Asset Fee from its equity in Noranda Jamaica Bauxite ...
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Bauxite behemoths: the world's biggest bauxite producers
Bauxite Brazil. Brazil produced 34.95Mt of bauxite in 2012 accounting for about 14% of the global bauxite output. The country's bauxite resources, estimated at 2,600Mt, comprise 9% of the world's ...
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Bauxite in Jamaica
Most of Jamaica's bauxite is refined into alumina and the rest is exported unrefined. The marketing of bauxite and alumina is done by large international companies. The video below …
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Industry
Jamaica's share of world bauxite output has therefore fallen from 18% in the 1970s to about 2% of total world production of 300 million tonnes in 2018. Regarding alumina, in 2018, Jamaica was ranked sixth in the world with an …
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Jamaica Bauxite Institute Local Bauxite/Alumina Monthly …
July, total bauxite production fell by around 15% on a year-over-year basis to roughly 449kt. Output for the first seven months of the year aggregated to almost 3.6 million tonnes, marking …
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Bauxite in Jamaica
Exports of bauxite from Jamaica declined by 17.29% in 2023 over 2022, with the highest share being exported to the US. Jamaica's bauxite exports are expected to grow at a …
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