KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaican and Japanese officials on Monday launched a pilot project designed to investigate whether rare-earth elements can be commercially extracted from the island's bauxite waste ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- Jamaica may be able to benefit from newly found deposits of rare-earth elements that are key ingredients for smartphones, computers and numerous other high-tech goods, the ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica – Jamaica's energy minister has opened a pilot plant where researchers will test whether rare-earth elements can be commercially extracted from bauxite waste on the Caribbean island.

Red mud, the highly alkaline by‐product of the Bayer process for alumina extraction from bauxite, poses significant environmental and economic challenges due to its vast global accumulation. Current ...

Jamaica had previously tried to get rare earth minerals from the country’s red mud around bauxite mining grounds, but Paulwell said it faced major challenges in attempting to extract minerals from the ...