MINING
- Capacity expansion at the Jamalco Alumina Plant to one million tonnes
- Surplus electrical power being fed to the Jamaica Public Service Company
- Bauxite Alumina Industry records hallmark Memorandum of Understanding between Management, Unions and Government
- Wage negoti at ions bei ng compl eted without industrial action
- Two new lime production pl ants put into operat ion at Maggoty in St. Elizabeth and Halse Hall in Clarendon
- Increased export of limestone whiting to the United States and other countries
- Millions of dollars spent on bauxite community development projects to benefit rural communities
- Quarry operators bonded to ensure restoration of after mining
- Gold prospecting in Main Ridge, Clarendon resumed with the construction of a plant for the extraction of gold
- Resumed shipments of bauxite to Kaiser's rebuilt Gramercy plant in Louisiana
- Government played role in bringing about a reconfiguration of the new plant to process both monohydrate and trihydrate bauxite, instead of only trihydrate bauxite.
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