Noranda Opens New Reservoir To Aid Fight Against Bauxite Dust In Jamaica
Jamaican bauxite producer Noranda Jamaica Bauxite Partners recently completed a reservoir in St. Ann dedicated to combating the ever-present bauxite...
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Jamaican Supreme Court Halts Noranda Bauxite Mining In St. Ann’s Cockpit Country
The Jamaican Supreme Court halted mining of St. Ann’s Cockpit Country by Noranda Jamaica and New Day Aluminum (Jamaica) Limited earlier this month, jeopardizing the multi-decade deal the firms struck with the Jamaican government in 2018. The court issued the injunction on...
Noranda Inks LOI With Cemtech For Sale Of Cement-Grade Bauxite Next Quarter
Noranda Alumina last week signed a letter of intent (LOI) with Cemtech Materials Corporation contemplating Noranda’s sale of 60 thousand...
Noranda Jamaica Shipped 3.8 Million WMT Of Bauxite From St. Ann In 2019
Noranda Bauxite shipped an estimated 3.8 million wet metric tons from its bauxite operation at St. Ann, Jamaica last year,...
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Noranda Wraps Up Labor Negotiations With New Accord
Jamaica’s Noranda Bauxite and University & Allied Workers Union (UAWU) announced a new labor agreement earlier this week that will keep the union’s workers working through the spring of 2023. According to Noranda, this agreement marks the end of negotiations for the entirety of the labor contracts with the various unions representing portions of its […]
Government Committed To Environmental Protection: Jamaica PM Holness
Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness challenged notions put forth by expatriates in recent days regarding bauxite mining and the government’s commitment to environmental protection. Holness spoke to a New York radio program on Thursday in a break from his attendance at a United Nations environmental summit, telling the interviewer that Jamaica continues to be a […]
Noranda Bauxite Praised For Land Reclamation Efforts In Jamaica
Jamaica’s Mining Minister Robert Montague lauded Noranda Bauxite for its responsible land reclamation efforts last week, noting the success the firm has had in refurbishing former mining sites for use as agricultural and water storage lands. Commenting at Noranda Bauxite’s Agriculture Education Industry Exposition in St. Ann on Thursday, Montague reiterated his government’s commitment to […]
Jamaican Government Searching for Bauxite Mining Land to Replace Tracts Lost by Noranda in Preserve Expansion
Jamaica’s government is currently in search of land upon which Noranda Jamaica may conduct mining operations to replace protected land that is no longer available for such purposes. The search was necessitated by the recent expansion of Cockpit Country, which is a natural preserve in Trelawny Parish in the country’s middle western reaches. Noranda holds […]
Jamaican Bauxite Firms to Issue 355 Land Titles to Relocated Owners by Year’s End: Mines Ministry
Jamaica’s Transport and Mining Minister Mike Henry said earlier this week that bauxite and alumina companies operating on the island have issued almost all of the 355 land titles to individuals displaced by bauxite mining activities that were scheduled to be issued in 2017. According to Henry, Windalco, Jamalco, Alpart, and Noranda Jamaica Bauxite Partners […]
Biden Infrastructure Bill A Big Boon To Aluminium Industry: Norsk Hydro VP Mike Stier
Earlier this month the United States Congress passed into law President Joe Biden’s US$1.2 trillion infrastructure package. The Investing in a New Vision for the Environment and Surface Transportation in America Act (or the INVEST in America Act) will allocate US$550 billion ...
The Net-Zero Shift Starts With Low Carbon Aluminium
2020 was supposed to be “year of climate action”, with the Glasgow COP26 acting as a major milestone for both ...
Aluminium at the LME Week – Key Takeaways
Between October 28 and November 1st, London hosted the traditional London Metals Exchange (LME) Week gathering of analysts, brokers, traders ...
Aluminium Market Oversupplied, Demand Growth Flat
Base metals prices reacted positively to the progress registered in the latest round of US – China trade talks in ...
