Article: Windalco halts bauxite mining.(JAMAICA)

West Indies Alumina Co, whose majority shareholder is United Co. RUSAL of Russia, has suspended bauxite mining as part of a plan to temporarily shutter operations due to a world downturn in demand, reports Reuters (April 2, 2009). Windalco employs 1,119 and produces 1.2 million tons of alumina annually at its two plants in Kirkvine and Ewarton. Alumina, from which aluminum is made, is processed from bauxite ore. Some employees, in ...

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