After the stucco was removed and the damaged sheathing replaced, new plywood sheathing was installed, the window was properly flashed, and the first of two layers of building paper were applied to the exterior wall.
Bauxite, Jamaica's main mineral resource, is a vital element of the country's economy. Other mineral resources include gypsum, limestone, marble, silica sand, clay peat, and to a lesser extent, lignite, black sands containing titanium, copper, lead, zinc and phosphates.
Bauxite extracted from the Darling Range is a low-grade ore with a content of more than 27 percent aluminium oxide. It takes seven tonnes of bauxite to yield one tonne of aluminium. When mining began Alcoa constructed the first alumina refinery in Western Australia at Kwinana in Cockburn Sound in 1963.