US imports of bauxite declined to 644,000 tonnes in Q1 2026, down 15.8 per cent from 765,000 tonnes in Q3 2024. The decline reflects longer-term pressure on the US primary aluminium and alumina industries, including reduced refining capacity and weaker demand for imported raw materials. Trade...
Jamaica’s bauxite and alumina export earnings are expected to improve in 2026, even though the first quarter was weak. The government expects production to rise as repairs continue after Hurricane Melissa, and the aluminium industry is watching closely because bauxite is the raw material used to...
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The Jamaican economy is expected to record growth ranging between 0.5 and 1.5 per cent over the July to September quarter according to Director General of the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) Colin Bullock. He was addressing the PIOJ’s quarterly media briefing on Tuesday August 27 at the...
High above the plateau at Jamaica’s Mount Oliphant is a technology that would traditionally be more at home in a ski resort than at a bauxite mine in the Caribbean. An almost silent 3.4km-long Rope Conveyor (RopeCon) system whirls overhead, transporting bauxite from Alcoa’s South Manchester mine...
On July 31, 2013, The Government of Jamaica announced an offer to exchange with Eligible Holders of the 8.50% amortizing notes due 2021 issued by Clarendon Alumina Production Limited ("CAP") and guaranteed by Jamaica. Jamaica is offering to exchange any and all CAP Notes held by such Eligible...
The opposition has raised concerns about recent developments in Government's efforts to dispose of over US$400 million ($30 billion) in debt triggered by the 2004/05 alumina forward-sale agreement with global metals and energy trader Glencore International. Opposition spokesman on finance,...
A reliance on expensive, imported energy has temporarily shuttered Jamaica’s bauxite alumina industry. But foreign operators who are working there hope to slash costs and kick-start production once more. Both United Co Rusal and Alcoa are looking at alternatives to the costly oil they are forced to...
Glencore is suing a Jamaican state-owned company after it awarded a lucrative contract to one of the trader’s rivals. Clarendon Alumina Production, which is owned by the Jamaican government, in June awarded a 12-year alumina supply deal to Hong Kong-based Noble Group, unseating Glencore from a...
Jamaica this week exported its first alumina shipment under a new agreement between Clarendon Alumina Production Limited (CAP) and international supply chain manager, Noble Resources Limited. The shipment left from Rocky Point in Clarendon on Wednesday. Noble Resources Limited is listed on the...
The Government of Jamaica announced today that it has commenced an offer to exchange with Eligible Holders of the 8.50% amortizing notes due 2021 issued by Clarendon Alumina Production Limited and guaranteed by Jamaica. Jamaica is offering to exchange any and all CAP Notes held by such Eligible...
Thirty employers of Noranda Bauxite Partners Jamaica in Discovery Bay, St Ann, ditched their duties for two days recently to concentrate on helping less fortunate persons at the Widow's Mite orphanage in Murray Mountain in the parish. The team was accompanied by general manager of United Way of...
Roy Harvey has been appointed chief operating officer for Alcoa's Global Primary Products (GPP) and will focus on the day-to-day operations at the aluminium giant's 22 aluminum smelters and nine alumina refineries worldwide. Harvey, a member of Alcoa's Executive Council, will also oversee the...
A senior mining ministry official has spurred doubts on prospects for the reopening of the stalled Windalco Kirkvine alumina plant in Manchester, saying it is being scrapped for parts. Oral Rainford, a principal director in the Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy, and Mining, told an audience...
In closing the Budget Debate, Jamaican Finance Minister Peter Phillips sought to reconcile the apparent conflict between his pronouncement and that of Minister Paulwell made earlier in the debate regarding the divestment of Clarendon Alumina Production (CAP). He approved of what Dr. Phillips said...
Minister of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining, Hon. Phillip Paulwell, has announced that the bauxite and alumina company, Alpart, in Nain, St. Elizabeth, would resume operations in the first quarter of 2016, following completion of the refinery’s new energy infrastructure. The re-opening will...
The government is to get a loan from GLENCORE to help fund the operations of Clarendon Alumina Partners Limited. The Administration recently indicated that it has put off plans to divest CAP but stressed that the loss-making entity would cease to be a burden on the public purse. Finance Minister Dr...
In an unexpected about-turn, the Government has announced it will discontinue the process of divesting its shares in the loss-making Clarendon Alumina Partners. The government has been attempting to offload its 45 per cent interest in the Jamalco Refinery held by CAP which has been racking up...
The Jamaican government and Russian mining company Rusal have agreed to reopen two of the Caribbean island's alumina plants within three years, Jamaica's energy and mining minister, Phillip Paulwell, announced on Wednesday. Rusal, the world's largest aluminum producer, has been operating in Jamaica...
Energy Minister, Phillip Paulwell, is to report to the country on an energy solution to facilitate the reopening of the Alpart and Kirkvine bauxite plants when he speaks in the 2013-2014 Sectoral Debate. For months, the Government has been engaged in negotiations with Russian-based aluminium...
Lower prices and higher costs translated into a modest loss for Noranda Jamaica Bauxite Partners. The St Ann-based company's parent reported a US$200,000 loss from its bauxite segment last year, following profits of US$18.5 million in 2011, and US$23.8 million the year before. The mining company...
