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 ...

Drilling for bauxite samples in Jamaica's Cockpit Country is threatening the plants and animals that live in the region's moist tropical limestone forest, said conservationists today. Bauxite is the ...

The suit asks a federal judge to declare that Atalco has violated the terms of its state permits as well as federal water and ...

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 ...

There's a new majority owner for an alumina refinery and chemical alumina plant in St. James Parish as part of a deal that could spur development of a $1 billion plant to extract rare earth elements ...

A team at Rice University has unveiled a fast and cleaner method to extract aluminum and strip toxic metals from bauxite residue, also called red mud. The hazardous by-product of aluminum production ...

Bonds have been approved to help finance a new $850 million facility that would recycle red mud pond waste from an alumina plant in St. James Parish. The board of trustees for the Louisiana Public ...

Aluminum production creates a toxic byproduct known as red mud. In an effort to cut down on this waste, researchers have figured out a way to send electric pulses through the mud to purify it and ...