Allan built a processing plant near its mines at kirkvine, Manchester, and in early 1953 began shipping alumina, the intermediate product between the ore and the metal. Production increased rapidly and by 1957 Jamaica had become the number one bauxite producer in the world with nearly five million tones,almost a quarter of all the bauxite mined in the world in that year. Allan built a second refinery at Ewarton in St. Catherine in 1959 but not u till 1963 did a fourth company, Alcoa, begin mining in the island. Production rose in 1988. Between 1982 and 1984 the world recession both fell considerably. I WOULD DO MORE RESEARCH ONLINE GOOD LUCK
