JAMAICA'S BAUXITE & ALUMINA INDUSTRY
Jamaica Bauxite Company), located in Discovery Bay, is the only company that ships the raw bauxite ore. COMPANY LOCATION OPERATIONS OWNERSHIP CAPACITY Alumina ... The mining and processing of bauxite continue to be one of the most important sectors of the Jamaican economy, accounting for about 10% of GDP. The industry
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The Bauxite Industry and Its Development | SpringerLink
Jamaica's bauxite resources were recognized in 1939 and with focused development work in overcoming processing challenges, commercial bauxite mining started in Jamaica in June 1952. By 1958 Jamaica was the world's leading bauxite producer (Roberts 1971 ).
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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 ... traction process for Jamaican bauxite was being pursued in the United States. In 1950 Reynolds Jamaica Mines Limited, a subsidiary of Reynolds Metals Company of ...
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Bauxite processing in Jamaica and Guyana: An extension to …
Thus, Jamaica and Guyana are particularly appropriate case studies for examining the impacts of increased bauxite processing because they are both major producers of the ore, and therefore the industry plays a major role in their economies, and the industry in both countries can be fairly described as significantly lacking domestic processing ...
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Bauxite Jamaica
Jamaica bauxite or bauxite in Jamaica was first shipped in 1952. By 1957 Jamaica was the leading bauxite producer in the world. In 1961 there were four companies mining bauxite in Jamaica. The companies were Reynolds, Alcan, Kaiser and Alcoa. Jamaica was planning its Independence from Great Britain on August 6, 1962. The country was growing ...
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The Chemistry and Processing of Jamaican Bauxite
One of Jamaica's most contentious issues is the untapped bauxite reserves in ecologically sensitive areas, and those close to populated areas. Opposition to mining in areas rich in biodiversity and critical water resources, …
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Red Dirt: A Multidisciplinary Review of the Bauxite-Alumina …
The topics covered by this study are: the bauxite-alumina industry's history, the evolution of its regulatory framework, the impacts of bauxite mining and processing on Jamaican society, public health and the natural environment, and the industry's externalities (social costs).
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How is bauxite processed in Jamaican?
Bauxite is a mineral that is the primary source of aluminum. Jamaica is one of the largest producers of bauxite in the world, and the processing of bauxite in Jamaica involves several steps to ...
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Theresa Rodriguez-Moodie | If not bauxite, then what?
In almost every discussion about Jamaica's bauxite-alumina industry, one question dominates: If not bauxite, then what? The question reflects a critical challenge that Jamaica must confront, as the industry, while significant to the economy for the past seven decades, now faces an inevitable decline for various reasons.
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Physical Bauxite Processing: Crushing and Grinding of Bauxite
Kaiser's plant in Gramercy Louisiana has been processing bauxite, from Jamaica's North Coast, for 40 years using Bayer Process technology. The Kaiser bauxite mining plan with the current Jamaican ...
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How bauxite mining changed St Ann
The Jamaican bauxite was very fine-grained and did not behave like other bauxite elsewhere in the world. All three companies – Alcan, Reynolds and Kaiser – had to develop appropriate technology to economically refine Jamaican ore into alumina and were quite successful in processing the low monohydrate hematite ore.
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Services
The Jamaica Bauxite Institute (JBI) provides a wide range of services to bauxite and alumina companies, the government, private businesses and individuals. ... The objectives of the Process Monitoring and Services Division are the efficient recovery and cost effective production of alumina from bauxite while ensuring the management of the ...
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Jamaica Bauxite Institute (JBI)
The Jamaica Bauxite Institute (JBI) was established in 1976 to support and oversee the bauxite and alumina sector, which has been a significant pillar of Jamaica's economy. This institute plays a crucial role in regulating and promoting the sustainable development of Jamaica's bauxite industry, which involves the extraction and processing of bauxite ore, a key
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Century Aluminum Company
The bauxite mining and alumina refining operation has grown over the years, but its first shipment of bauxite came in 1963, while the first shipment of alumina came in 1972. The original capacity of the refinery was 500,000 tonnes per year and it increased in capacity to 1,250,000 tonnes per year in 2003 and again in 2007, expanded to a ...
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Phase out crude bauxite exports to save the Cockpit Country
The bauxite-alumina industry has been in Jamaica now for over 70 years. From being the world's largest producer of bauxite in the early 1960s, we are now in seventh place with just a two ...
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Mining and Refining – Jamaica
Alcan (now Rio Tinto) has had a long history in Jamaica, constructing two alumina refineries there in the 1950s. In 2001 Alcan sold its bauxite mining and alumina plants in Jamaica but kept responsibility for many of the bauxite residue sites with the intention of safely remediating them to an agreed standard and transferring ownership to the Government of Jamaica.
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Restoration of Bauxite Lands in Jamaica: Life after Bauxite
Senior Director, Bauxite Reserves Jamaica Bauxite Institute, Hope Gardens, Kingston 6, Jamaica W.I. Corresponding author: [email protected] Abstract Bauxite occurrence in Jamaica is somewhat unique among the world's large producers in that Jamaican bauxite deposits occur in numerous small discrete depressions in karst limestone in the
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The Chemistry and Processing of Jamaican Bauxite
In October, 1943, Alcan was incorporated under the name Jamaica Bauxites Limited as a Jamaican company to investigate the commercial potential of Jamaican bauxite. In the same year, 2500 tonnes of ore was shipped to the USA for process investigation and it was realised that the bauxite was suitable for processing using Bayer technology.
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National Environment and Planning Agency GUIDELINES …
• Mining and Mineral Processing – Bauxite, Peat, Sand, Metallic, Non-Metallic Material • Metal Processing • Industrial Projects: Food Processing & Processing Plants – Citrus, Coffee, Cocoa, Edible Fats, Coconut, Solar Salt, Fish & Meat, Syrup. Aquaculture facilities, Breweries & …
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Approaches to Bauxite Residue Legacy Issues in Jamaica
7. John Chandler. 1986 The stacking and solar drying process for disposal of bauxite tailings in Jamaica. Proceedings of an international conference on Bauxite Tailings 'Red Mud', Kingston, Jamaica. 26-31 October. 101-108. 8. Jamaica. Jamaica Bauxite Institute (JBI) and Natural Resources Conservation Authority (NRCA). 1994.
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Red Dirt: A Multidisciplinary Review of the Bauxite …
The topics covered by this study are: the bauxite-alumina industry's history, the evolution of its regulatory framework, the impacts of bauxite mining and processing on Jamaican society, public health and the natural …
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Bauxite & Aluminum
The gibbsite content of Jamaican bauxite ranges from 34-46%, whereas boehmite can range from 1-12%. For this reason, Jamaican bauxite may be classified as `mixed' trihydrate/monohydrate or gibbsite/boehmite bauxite. Some amount of blending can be tolerated in the processing, and this is encouraged in order to maximize use of the resource.
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Bauxite in Jamaica
According to GlobalData, Jamaica is the world's ninth-largest producer of bauxite in 2023, with output down by 17.29% on 2022. Over the five years to 2022, production from …
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The Evolution of Bauxite Mining in Jamaica Modern …
Alumina Partners of Jamaica (Alpart) has its bauxite mining and alumina processing plant located at Nain, St. Elizabeth, in the south of Jamaica. The company was first established in the early …
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Rise and evolution of bauxite industry
In 1952, Jamaica celebrated its first shipment of bauxite, marking the beginning of a remarkable transformation. The industry rapidly expanded and, by 1957, Jamaica had become the world leader in bauxite production, …
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GENERAL MANAGER
The Jamaica Bauxite Institute is the principal policy, research and development, advisory, monitoring and implementation arm for the government of Jamaica in the Bauxite/alumina/aluminum sector.&n ... Direct the development of programmes aimed at enhancing the utilization of byproducts from the processing of bauxite and alumina, such as …
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Bauxite bounces back
The fall in crude-bauxite production led to a 68.2 per cent increase in earnings from bauxite and aluminia. Jamaica's earnings from bauxite in 2023 was US$551.5 million.
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Red Dirt: The Bauxite-Alumina Industry in Jamaica
This publication takes a hard look at mining operations that have devastated Jamaican communities and landscapes since the 1950s. "Jamaica's air-quality standards are known to be outdated and, with respect to particulate matter (PM), are inadequate to protect public health – the bauxite-alumina industry could and should be held to a higher standard," the report pointed out.
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Problems with the Bauxite-Alumina Industry in Jamaica
In addition to the problems involved in the bauxite mining, another set of problems exist around the four plants in Jamaica that process the bauxite into alumina.
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