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, an aluminium ore, is the world's main source of aluminium. It consists mostly of the minerals gibbsite (Al(OH) 3), boehmite (Î³-AlO(OH)) and diaspore (Î±-AlO(OH)), mixed with the two iron oxides goethite and haematite, the clay mineral kaolinite and small amounts of anatase (TiO 2) and ilmenite (FeTiO 3 or FeO.TiO 2).