Investment viability check: Surinamese bauxite’s rise, fall and the prospect of resurgence
Suriname is one of those countries that quietly sits on the world map, half-hidden under a canopy of forests, rivers and rain-soaked roads that rarely make it to global headlines. Yet at one point in the twentieth century, this small nation punched far above its weight in the aluminium value chain. Ask anyone old enough in Paramaribo and they’ll tell you how bauxite once shaped Suriname’s identity just as much as its rivers and rainforest. The irony is that today, those same forests and the difficulty of reaching its interior have become the very reasons investors hesitate.
Image source - Drone Suriname by Max Breinburg
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