Essays on Bauxite

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Economic overview The economy of Jamaica greatly relies on services that accounts for over 70 percent of its GDP. The Nation continues to earn most of the foreign exchange from remittances, tourism and alumina/bauxite. Both tourism and remittances accounts for 30 percent each, whereas alumina/bauxite exports contribute roughly 5 percent of the GDP. The alumina/bauxite sector was the greatly affected by global downturn whereas the remittance flow and tourism industry remained resilient. The economy encounters several challenges to its growth including soaring corruption and crimes, huge-scale underemployment and unemployment as well as a debt-to-the-GDP ratio that is about 130 ...

In the city dump of even middle-sized city or town it is annually accumulated hundreds of thousands of tons of household waste. Decaying, they poison the air, soil, groundwater, and thus become a serious threat to the environment and humans. That is why the one who saves the day become effective, non-waste, and most importantly clean technology industrial waste processing systems. Throughout the world, processing and recycling of household waste are becoming increasingly important issue. This mainly concerns densely populated major cities, where the annual accumulated millions of cubic meters of all kinds of garbage. Steaming dump heap of ...

Issues of Vietnam – Single Party System

Issues of Vietnam – Single Party System Throughout the history, political regimes underwent a transformation. In the present era, states are inclined to give preference to democracy since monarch system has been outdated. However, the political legitimacy of different states remains controversial. Vietnam’s political regime remains to be a controversial issue in the international politics. Since 2008-2009, Vietnam’s political legitimacy has emerged one party state. Political legitimate preference of Vietnam is under conflict because of interests and preferences of the locals that vehave created the political unrest. The present argument paper aims to analyze issues of Vietnam’s ...

Individual Sustainable Development Assignment (ENGG107 2013-14) v1

Product or Process or System Selected (Friday 25 October submission) The sustainability of aluminium      Brief description of the scope of product, process or system , its market situation and your Sustainable Development concerns (Friday 25 October submission) This paper explains the element aluminium. It provides an overview of the existence of aluminium, its physical and chemical properties, the main uses and areas of application in the world and its sustainability as an airplan manufacturing material. the paper also covers the flow process of the manufacture of aluminium right from the ore to end use products ...

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Introduction When it is defined about economics, then it will be definite about the inflation and economic growth (Banerjee and Duflo, 2011). Economies are always in comparison with other economies in terms of enhancing their economic growth and minimizing the level of unemployment rate accordingly. Earning the money and consuming it in a perfect and best possible manner is a basic definition of economics, and economics are utilizing it in a better way. Apart from earning and consuming the money at a better place, economic development and economic management are some of the important aspects that associated with the long run efficacy ...

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Please type your instructor name here Introduction Alcoa Inc., whose ticker symbol is Alcoa, was incorporated in September 1888. Alcoa is essentially into frivolous metals, merchandises and solutions. Alcoa extensively offers both its technology as well as expertise in the field of automotive and aerospace transportation, construction, home appliances and packaging, defence applications across all three modes of transport, and finally to the oil and gas industry. Alcoa also produces primary aluminium in the form of a miner of bauxite as well as refiner of alumina. Alumina, Primary Metals, Global Rolled Products and Engineered Products and Solutions are ...

The control of Natural Resource Management in Australia is a critical concern and hence the responsibility of governments, communal groups and regional bodies to support projects and programs delivery that consequently inform policy makers on natural resources issues. (Brueckner, Durey, Mayes & Pforr 2014). Water pollution is a significant natural resource management issue in Australia that is caused by different anthropogenic, as well as natural factors (Pigram 2007). The northern Jarrah Forests of Western Australia have been a source of water to the Perth metropolitan Region, however, the water supply system is under a threat of pollution from Industrial activities taking place within ...

The history of the Caribbean is one that is rich with the culture or influence of many European influences. The legacy of colonialism contributed to much of the economic issues facing the Caribbean countries today. In order to understand the impact of the colonial legacy, one must first understand that colonialism takes the resources from a particular country, and utilizes it to promote the country that is colonized. In addition, it represents the expansion of a nation's power over countries and the people within the boundaries of that country to aid in the economic control over their labor, resources, and markets. ...

Major physical features in Jamaica

Blue Mountain Peak This is the highest mountain in Jamaica with a highest of 2256meters (7402ft).It is ranked 117th in the world. The mountain is notable because of the Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee grown in the mountain. The coffee has no bitterness and is the most expensive and sought after coffee in the world.

Limestone plateau

This physical feature covers two thirds of the country’s land. The plateau form karsts which are distinguished by terra Rosa soils in the valley. This forms the largest basin, Vale of Clarendon.

Dunn’s River Falls

This is the most famous waterfall in Jamaica due to its ...

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Figure 1: Map of Jamaica (Source: en.wikipedia.org) "Jamaica is in the position of a drowning man, treading water to keep afloat, but slowly drifting ashore."—Professor Kari Levitt, University of the West Indies, Jamaica Although the above statement has some validity to it as it relates to some criteria related to the core developmental issues concerning the economic and social progress of Jamaica, the recent report conducted by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has revealed that Jamaica has made certain improvements in its Human Development Index (HDI) values and rank ...

Aluminium is produced from bauxite. Al2O3. This is referred to as Alumina, or aluminium oxide is extracted from the ore. After the extraction, electrolytic reduction process is used to transform Alumina to Aluminium. From every two tonnes of alumina, one tonne of aluminium is produced. The bauxite consists of ferrous oxide, titanium oxide, earth silicon, and alumina, approximately 40 to 60%. Bayer process is used to separate pure aluminium from bauxite (Habashi 16). This process involves heating the ore in an autoclave that contains caustic soda. Cooling then takes place, in order to separate the solid residue that is ...