·The social impact of the bauxite alumina industry on Jamaica s small rural communities has been for the most part very hurtful as well as water ponds by the bauxite companies Under this J$245 million project funded by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund JSIF 2014 2019 160 farmers in eight communities benefited
·Bauxite in Jamaica occurs primarily in the parishes of St Elizabeth Manchester Clarendon St Ann and St Catherine Approximately thirteen million tonnes are mined each year The companies have schedules for restoration in keeping with the new regulation and are required to reclaim any backlog they may have by 2011
·West Indies Alumina Company Windalco is to be charged for breaches under the Wild Life Protection Act after an investigation by the National Environment and Planning Agency NEPA found that the bauxite company is responsible for Monday s fish kill in the Rio Cobre
6 ·The mission of the Jamaica Bauxite Institute is to maintain an unwavering commitment to effective regulatory enforcement good scholarly and market based research as well as the facilitation of investment in plant expansion and renewal without degrading the environment
·Jerome Maxwell managing director JAMALCO; Pansy Johnson Jamaica s first female 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
·The sanctions violation charges slapped on the Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska will not affect bauxite alumina producer Windalco in Jamaica experts say Russia based UC Rusal which owns Windalco has indicated that political tensions in parts where it operates including Jamaica are leading to discussions of the sale of assets
·This is because dry weight means that the extracted soils were kiln dried to retain only 13 per cent moisture Whhen extracted Jamaica s bauxitic soils have a natural free moisture content of 20 30 per cent Drying reduces the weight of dirt to be shipped Thus bauxite mining removes water from the environment
·Interestingly although the operations has had its own share of mixed fortunes over its 50 year life cycle this is the only bauxite company that has never closed its doors in Jamaica not even once
·That passive income which Howe refers to is the earnings it gets from bauxite through its 51 per cent holding in Noranda Jamaica Bauxite Partners II a stake it holds on behalf of the Government
Preamble An Act to Make special provisions for bauxite alumina and other related enterprises in which the Government participates and to provide that income tax paid by any bauxite producer shall be allowed as a credit against production levy payable by that bauxite Long Title Short Title The Bauxite and Alumina Industries Special
·The Jamaican Government expects the value of mining exports from bauxite and alumina to improve to US$507 million $77 billion seven per cent higher than last year with the pending reopening of the Jamalco plant but there s still concern over the other alumina assets
By letter of 17 June 1974 Kaiser Bauxite Company hereafter called "Kaiser" addressed a request for arbitration against the Government of Jamaica to the Secretary General of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes hereafter called "Centre" pursuant to Article 36 1 of the Convention on the Settlement of Investment
·Jamaica s Natural Resources Bauxite Interest in Jamaica s bauxite deposits began in the 1940s through development and exploration by the Alcan Reynolds and Kaiser Companies The newfound interest in Jamaica s Bauxite deposits was sparked by an increase in global demand for aluminium during and after World War II
WINDALCO a bauxite and alumina production complex uses an opencast method to extract bauxites which lie close to the surface in Jamaica The facility infrastructure includes a shipping port and several farms the Company also seeks to increase efficiency and reduce operating costs In addition to the requirement that the Company is
Bauxite and Alumina Trading Company of Jamaica Limited BATCO is a limited liability company whose shares are Government owned and held by the Accountant General of Jamaica The company acts as a marketing agent for Clarendon Alumina Production Limited CAP and Jamaica Bauxite Mining Limited JBM
·At present only the bauxite companies know the facts and therefore we should hesitate before reaching any agreement with them until we are well equipped to bargain as they are Thus was born the Jamaica Bauxite Institute JBI which began its operations 1976 This year the JBI proudly celebrates 30 years of incalculable and
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4 ·The paper is based primarily on field research carried out between August 1981 April 1982 within the area of impact of three bauxite companies in Jamaica It deals primarily with the experiences of a complex of communities and with a resettlement site both of which were within the sphere of influence of the Kaiser Bauxite Company
·One Jamaican environmental activist lamented the fact that bauxite companies can seemingly do no wrong in Jamaica and are too often let off the hook Decades of this specific problem I will not even speak of the pollution before we get to Rio Cobre Bauxite cyaah do wrong a Jamaica an a dat a wi problem Come back when wi
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·Jamaica Bauxite Mining & History Noranda Jamaica Bauxite Partners formerly St Ann Bauxite Jamaica Limited and prior to that Kaiser Jamaica Bauxite Company is located in Discovery Bay St Ann Jamaica Caribbean Noranda expanded its aluminum business in 2004 by gaining a 50% interest in the Gramercy alumina refinery in Louisiana
·The St Ann Bauxite Company which purchased Kaiser Aluminum Corporation s 49 per cent stake in Kaiser Jamaica Bauxite Company KJBC last year has pledged to invest some US$ million into its operations The Government of Jamaica is the majority shareholder with 51 per cent of equity in the company
The commercial possibilities of Jamaican bauxite were recognized in 1943 at a time when there was great need for aluminum for the Allied war effort and when availability was being made difficult by the harassment by German U boats of Allied bauxite ships plying from the sources of the ore in South America to the North American mainland
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