An aerial view of the Kirkvine bauxite plant in Manchester. The world oil crisis in 1973, which almost quadrupled Jamaica’s oil import bill from $55 million to nearly $180 million per year, was one of ...

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Jamaica hopes to use natural gas mainly to run bauxite plants, as well as the main electricity company and other large industrial agencies here during the first phase of the project.

First of all, we have rare earth materials opportunities that come hand in hand with the bauxite mining as we have a heavy concentration in Jamaican bauxite. There is a key opportunity here for ...