Jamaica. 31.3% —or about 339,000 hectares—of Jamaica is forested. Change in Forest Cover: Between 1990 and 2000, Jamaica lost an average of 400 hectares of forest per year. The amounts to an average annual deforestation rate of 0.12%. Between 2000 and 2005, the rate of forest change increased by 1.2% to 0.12% per annum.
Read MoreI have just enjoyed reading, 'The Railways of Jamaica', written by Jim Horsford. It is a Locomotives International publication, published by Paul Catchpole Ltd, St. Austel, Cornwall. [1] This is an excellent study on the history of the main lines of the railways in Jamaica and also reflects briefly on some of the still open lines serving the Bauxite industry.
Read MoreBauxite produced for export increased by 12.6 per cent to 4.6 million dry metric tonnes, following an injection of additional capital to upgrade mining equipment and improve internal business processes at St. Ann Jamaica Bauxite Limited. In the meantime, alumina production edged upward by just under one per cent to 4.1 million tonnes.
Read MoreBauxite Tailings, Kingston, Jamaica. 9. Chandler JL (1986) The stacking and solar drying process for disposal of bauxite tailings in Jamaica. In: Proc. Int. Conf. Bauxite Tailings, Kingston, Jamaica. 10. Bott R, Langeloh T (2015) Process options for the filtration and washing of bauxite residue. Bauxite Residue Valorization Conference, Leuven ...
Read MoreCockpit country vs bauxite mining. I hold briefs for Jamaica, none else, but bauxite is a mature industry with things set for decades; yet the discourse regarding Cockpit Country has been so toxic ...
Read MoreConsidering the planned Baldock JA, Aoyama M, Oades JM, Susanto, Grant CD (1994) expansion of bauxite mining in Jamaica, and the conse- Structural amelioration of a South Australian Red Brown Earth quent potential for soil deterioration, more incisive evalu- using calcium and organic amendments.
Read MoreJamaica's first shipment of bauxite occurred in 1952 and subsequently, in 1957 the island was known as the world's leading bauxite producer! The Uses of Bauxite in Jamaica Now, given that bit of the history of the bauxite industry will give you an appreciation of the main purpose of bauxite in Jamaica.
Read MoreSchwartz's concern seems valid. After all bauxite was, until 2008 the island's second largest earner of foreign exchange. That year bauxite earned 1.37 billion dollars and accounted for 55 per cent of Jamaica's total merchandise exports and traditionally contributed around five to six per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
Read MoreThe remaining 39% of the area of Jamaica is classified as Non-forest and consists of wholly cultivated areas, water bodies, bare rock, bauxite mines, and buildings/other infrastructure. Note on classification of Primary Forest: Primary Forest refers not only to closed broadleaved forest but includes "open" (dry) forests that have not been ...
Read MoreAlcoa has ownership in seven active bauxite mines globally and operates four of them, making us among the largest bauxite producers in the world. We have access to large bauxite deposits with mining rights that extend in most cases more than 20 years. Our global network is strategically located near key Atlantic and Pacific markets.
Read MoreForest Policy for Jamaica 8 Jamaica is known as the land of wood and water, taken from the Tainos (earliest indigenous inhabitants of Jamaica) word "Xaymaca".Forests are a part of Jamaicas famous beauty, they provide food and wood, are a home to plants and animals some of which are only found in Jamaica, and are a
Read MoreBauxite is the raw material for aluminum. Cockpit Country is in northwestern Jamaica near the tourist resorts of Montego Bay and Ocho Rios. It is about 130 miles (209 kilometers) from the capital city of Kingston. Central Jamaica was once blanketed with wet limestone forests. The 173 square miles (450 square kilometers) of Cockpit Country ...
Read MoreFORESTRY DEVELOPMENT BY A BAUXITE MINING COMPANY W. A. SNAITH Forest Supervisor, Alean Jamaica Limited the company's holdings totalling over 48,000 acres are mainly situated at an elevation varying from 1,000 to 2,500 feet, in the parishes of Manchester and St. Ann. The terrain is undulating or mountainous with relatively narrow valleys
Read MoreBauxite (aluminum ore) mining has had a major impact in the island's forests. Among the most immediate serious threats are deforestation as a result of large and small-scale cultivation, new town and road construction and plans (as yet not approved) to expand bauxite mining in the Cockpit Country and other parts of central Jamaica.
Read MoreJamaica's bauxite reserves are large, exceeding 1.5 billion tons. At the present rate of extraction, reserves could last another 150 years. Jamaica's bauxite is not extremely alumina pure; one ton of Jamaican bauxite contains only about 0.4 tons of alumina. The island's bauxite comparative advantage lies in the easy extraction of the metal ore ...
Read MoreEnvironmental Impact of Bauxite Mining and Processing in Jamaica Author(s): Lloyd B. Coke, Colin C. Weir and Vincent G. Hill Source: Social and Economic Studies, MARCH 1987, Vol. 36, No. 1, IMPACT OF BAUXITE-ALUMINA ON RURAL JAMAICA (MARCH 1987), pp. 289-325, 327-330, 332-333 Published by: Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies, University of the West Indies …
Read MoreThe Forestry Department has received commitments from other public and private entities, including the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ), WinCo, and Norendal Bauxite. It is also executing other projects in collaboration with companies across Jamaica.
Read More1. 2. Noranda Jamaica Bauxite Partners II marked Jamaica's National Tree Planting Day 2020 on Friday by planting 2,020 trees across sections of its mining operation area in St Ann. The effort is part of Noranda's drive to plant 200,000 trees over a three-year period as part of the company's continuing land-rehabilitation programme.
Read MoreJamaica's forest land currently includes 339,000 hectares of land with forest cover and 188,000 hectares of other wooded land, such as plantations. natural forest remains only in areas that are difficult to access, such as mountain mist forests, and is largely comprised of tropical montane forest. ... The bauxite in Jamaica has little ...
Read MoreJamaica's Cockpit Country is still under threat from bauxite mining, which would remove forest cover, block and pollute waterways, displace residents, threaten agricultural livelihoods, compromise air quality and threaten the health and well-being of thousands of Jamaican citizens.
Read MoreBut bauxite mining — the island's second largest foreign exchange earner after tourism– is considered to be the single largest cause of deforestation in Jamaica. On the one hand, this activity destroys large areas of forest because bauxite is extracted by open cast mining, which requires the complete removal of vegetation and topsoil.
Read Moreexploiting bauxite could be useful especially to the three Caribbean bauxite exporters—Jamaica, Suriname, and Guyana—that collectively account for about 6 percent of global bauxite production (USGS, 2013). Figure 1. Major Bauxite-Rich Areas of the World . Source: Aluminum leader data from the United States Geological Survey, 2013.
Read MoreThe discovery of commercial deposits of bauxite in the 1950s triggered a major change in the pattern of resource exploitation. Large areas of ... National Strategy and Action Plan on Biological Diversity in Jamaica 8 Table 3 Forestry inventory assessment Land Use Thousands of Hectares % of Total Land Area Natural forest (Primary Forest) 88.2 8%
Read MoreLocated in the south of Jamaica, Alpart includes bauxite mines with an annual output of 4.9 million tons and three alumina production lines with a total annual capacity of 1.65 million tons, which were fully closed in 2009 as a result of the global financial crisis. One production line was restarted in October 2017 and the other two are ...
Read MoreJamalco is a joint venture between General Alumina Jamaica Limited and Clarendon Alumina Production Limited (CAP) with a focus on bauxite mining and alumina production. The entity started as a bauxite mining venture by Alcoa in 1959 and exported its first shipment of bauxite in 1963. The venture began alumina production at a new refinery in ...
Read MoreENVIRONMENT-JAMAICA: Bauxite Mining Blamed for Deforestation. (IPS) – A land use and forest cover study to determine the rate of deforestation and to kick-start a forestry conservation programme here has revealed that bauxite mining is the single largest contributor to deforestation in Jamaica. In 50 years of operation, the industry has ...
Read MoreAlcan (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.
Read MoreThe Forestry Department is the lead Agency responsible for the island's forest resources. We manage approximately 117,000 hectares of forests in Jamaica. The Government's lead agency in the protection and conservation of the island's forest resources. The National Tree Planting Initiative to plant three million trees in three years was launched ...
Read MoreMining poses a major environmental threat to tropical forest ecosystems, given its role in long-term forest degradation. Like Suriname, Guyana presents one of the less disturbed forested lands in South America. The local economy is improving, thanks to the development of mining which is primarily focused on gold, diamond, and bauxite. This, however, has resulted in long-term degradation of ...
Read Morein central Jamaica in landscapes where forest is embedded in three human-dominated matrix types (agriculture, peri-urban development, and bauxite mining) and one natural "matrix" (continuous forest). First, I examine whether richness, community composition, and abundances of
Read MoreBauxite is the red dirt found in countries like Jamaica, Guyana, Suriname within the Caribbean but also in other countries such as Australia and Brazil. The bauxite industry has its history in post- slavery when England ran the bauxite export, into the years when bauxite was among the industries being nationalized by Caribbean governments. . However, in the years of recession following 1975 ...
Read More12 A concession from the Government of Jamaica permits Noranda Bauxite Limited to mine bauxite in Jamaica through 2030. Bauxite mined at St Ann is shipped to the Gramercy refinery in Louisiana, where ...
Read MoreIn theory, Jamaica earns money from bauxite by companies paying a tax or levy when they mine the ore for export or refine domestically into alumina. That levy was originally 7.5 per cent of the averaged realised price for aluminium on the London Metal Exchange, but with a base rate, or the lowest the companies would pay, of US$5 per ton. But as ...
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