APPROACHES TO THE PROCESSING OF JAMAICAN BAUXITE WITH
2022.2.18 Abstract. Jamaican bauxite deposits can broadly be classified into two types, catchment and hillside, depending on their form and topographic setting. The major iron phase in catchment deposits...
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JAMAICA'S BAUXITE ALUMINA INDUSTRY
Just over one-third of the over 13 to 14 million tonnes of bauxite mined in Jamaica each year is shipped unprocessed to the U.S.A.
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Bauxite processing in Jamaica and Guyana: An estimate of
2001.1.1 The objective of this paper is to estimate the national income and foreign exchange impacts of hypothesized increased downstream processing of domestically
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The Jamaican Bauxite Industry: Glimpses Into Its Past,
Growth continued during the economically buoyant 1960s, and at the end of the decade six transnational companies—Alcan, Reynolds, Kaiser, Alcoa, Anaconda, and Revere—were well established, mining and/or
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The Bauxite Industry and Its Development SpringerLink
2023.10.25 Jamaica’s bauxite resources were recognized in 1939 and with focused development work in overcoming processing challenges, commercial bauxite mining
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Approaches to Bauxite Residue Legacy Issues in Jamaica
Background Jamaica is the third largest island in the Caribbean, bauxite is a key natural resource and it has been mined and processed for over 60 years. The bauxite industry
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Pilot Plant - Jamaica Bauxite Institute
The production of alumina from bauxite is carried out by the use of the Bayer Process. The process was invented in 1888 by an Austrian, Karl Joseph Bayer. Bayer discovered that
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THE JAMAICAN BAUXITE INDUSTRY: GLIMPSES INTO ITS PAST
established, mining and/or processing bauxite in the island. The industry faced enormous difficulties during most of the 1970s and 1980s as a result, among other things, of the oil
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