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 case involving bauxite company WINDALCO regarding allegations that it released a noxious substance into the Rio Cobre in St Catherine will begin today. The matter will be heard in the Spanish Town Resident Magistrate’s Court. WINDALCO was brought before the court by the National Environment and...
Sixty one students from schools in St. Ann were recently awarded for their outstanding performance in the 2011 Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT). The awards ceremony, hosted by Noranda Jamaica Bauxite Partners, was held on August 9 at the Runaway Bay Heart Hotel, where the awardees were presented...
ALCOA Minerals of Jamaica, Inc, (Jamalco) is appealing the enforcement notice recently served by the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA), following the seepage of caustic liqueur at its refinery in Halse Hall, Clarendon.
Minister of Finance Audley Shaw last night revealed that by the end of August, the Government will make a decision on the sale of its stake in the Jamalco alumina refinery. The Government has been incurring billions of dollars in losses each year because of a forward sales agreement between the...
THE West Indies Alumina Company (Windalco) has the option to appeal enforcement notices issued by the National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) last week — all of which claim the company discharged improperly treated industrial effluent from its Ewarton Works facility in St Catherine.
The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) has served three enforcement notices on bauxite company, WINDALCO, over the discharge of industrial effluent into Old Johns Gully in Ewarton, St Catherine. The release of noxious substance, which caused the death of several fishes, prompted NEPA...
DESPITE THE harsh economic climate which has prevented thousands of young people from acquiring summer jobs this year, scores of students from tertiary-level institutions in Jamaica have received summer employment at Jamalco locations in Clarendon and Manchester. Human resources manager at Jamalco,...
...UC RUSAL, the Russian firm that controls a big chunk of Jamaica's bauxite production, is insisting that the planned July 1 reopening of the Windalco Kirkvine bauxite plant in Williamsfield, Manchester, remains on schedule...
...NORANDA Aluminum expects to complete a US$8-million port expansion at its bauxite facility in Discovery Bay, St Ann by the end of this month...
...Director General of the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), Dr. Gladstone Hutchinson, says Jamaica is not expected to be negatively impacted by the reported stockpiling of bauxite, alumina and other raw materials by China...
... Jamaica's mining minister says a Russian-owned aluminum company is restarting operations at a bauxite refinery that it closed nearly two years ago. ...
... International aluminium producer, UC RUSAL, has announced that the Windalco-Kirkvine Works Plant in Manchester is to be reopened on July 1. ...
... Kwame Nkrumah decided on an integrated aluminium project based on Volta electricity as a major prank of the industrialisation and prosperity of Ghana. ... the American firm Kaiser Aluminum to process the Jamaican alumina in Ghana while the World Bank was assured of payment of the loan for the...
...While it is sad to see more jobs leaving Birmingham, it's good to know that Bermco Aluminum's move will leave Birmingham a less-polluted city ("Aluminum smelter sets sights on Lincoln," Business, Dec...
...WHILE THE global downturn in the bauxite industry was wreaking havoc with economies the world over during the last two years, in Jamaica one company continued to maintain its commitments to the communities dependent on it for their economical survival, even ramping up its operations in some...
...The European Union has signalled willingness to help Jamaica fund its bauxite liabilities, after Prime Minister Bruce Golding said on the weekend that he was struggling to identify funds to pay Glencore AG...
...Energy and Mining Minister, James Robertson, is meeting with stakeholders in the bauxite/alumina industry as the Jamaica government seeks to re-position the sector to make it more energy efficient through the use of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) as an alternative fuel...
...A second month of decline in alumina exports from Jamalco — the larger of the two operational refineries in Jamaica — and lower-than-capacity sales by Windalco has positioned the country to repeat last year's lacklustre performance in export of the commodity...
