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Noranda puts new life into bauxite mining

Noranda is aggressively looking for new markets, as it has excess capacity and wants to ramp up its production.

Jamaica’s bauxite industry is back in business, with new player Noranda Bauxite/New Day Aluminum (Jamaica) aggressively developing new customers and markets, as it sets a new path for a 50-plus-year-old bauxite company and Jamaica’s only bauxite exporter. The bauxite and alumina industry was a fraction of its former self, mainly due to reduced global demand and

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