GOVERNMENT senator and president general of the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union Kavan Gayle is warning that restraining bauxite mining in St Ann and Trelawny, under the Special Mining Lease (SML.
CONCERNS are rising in the local bauxite/alumina industry over the effect of the recent ruling by the Supreme Court, in favour of environmentalists and residents opposing mining in the Cockpit Cou.
The Supreme Court has barred Noranda Jamaica Partners II and New Day Aluminum (Jamaica) Limited from mining lands in St Ann's Cockpit Country, which some residents say is threatening their surviva.
DISCOVERY Bauxite, the new name given to Noranda Bauxite/New Day Aluminium after its recent rebranding, is now embroiled in yet another court battle with local environmental interests who are seek.
Historic Overview: In the 1960s, the red dirt of bauxite lands in Jamaica’s interior spurred a ‘gold rush’ of mining that attracted global investors and pushed the island to the number one position in.