Joseph-Marc Carel knows the danger of ferrying passengers on his small motorbike, sometimes two at a time, as tides of the buzzing vehicles cut through the chaotic Haitian capital. He has a prosthetic leg to prove it. Carel would like to find a job that’s safer than driving a two-wheeled taxi in Port-au-Prince, but he […]
Jamaica Breaks Ground on Rare-Earth Project
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. Researchers with Japan’s Nippon Light Metal Co. Ltd. believe they have found high concentrations of rare-earth elements in the island’s red mud, a byproduct of bauxite refining into alumina, the […]
Official: Rare-Earth Elements in Jamaica’s Red Mud
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 Caribbean island’s top mining official said Tuesday. Science, Technology, Energy & Mining Minister Philip Paulwell said Japanese researchers believe they have found “high concentrations of rare-earth elements” in the […]