Government yesterday announced that bauxite mining here is making a comeback as last year saw a groundbreaking increase in output of some 225 per cent as compared to 2023, with 1.7 million tonnes ...

In West Africa, Guinea, and Ghana, hold substantial bauxite reserves by country. In the Americas, the largest reserves are found in Jamaica, Guyana, and Suriname. Bauxite is a sedimentary rock ...

Living conditions had deteriorated in the intervening years, but by the 1990s the policies were having their desired effect – foreign capital was returning to Guyana, attracted by cheap concessions ...

Guyana was once one of the poorest countries in South America despite large reserves of gold, diamonds and bauxite. But it has been awash in money after a consortium led by ExxonMobil discovered ...

But in the mid-1970s, Burnham took control of the country’s resources, nationalizing sugar production as well as bauxite mining. Like other former colonies, Guyana wanted to make its break with ...

Guyana has seen fierce political rivalry between the two main ethnically-based parties. Most of the country is covered in tropical rainforest and, despite having rich reserves of bauxite ...

The country is endowed with fertile agricultural lands, valuable mineral resources - including bauxite and gold - extensive tropical forests that cover 80 percent of the country, and recently ...

In the 20th century, American corporations came to Guyana, mining for bauxite and gold. By the 1950s, they also hunted for oil, but decades of effort proved largely futile. In 1992, Guyana held ...

WHEN night two of the 2025 One Guyana King and Queen of the Sand football competition continued at the People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C) Linden office ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana—More than 100 miles off the coast ... roads and shopping centers. They mine for bauxite and manganese in the remote areas of the country’s Amazon region.