The citizen-led Haiti Mining Justice Collective (Kolektif Jistis Min an Ayiti – KJM), a coalition of Haitian organizations formed in 2012, is sharing information about mining and human rights issues with communities and helping promote their interests. International citizen organizations are trying to amplify Haitian voices and provide information.
Haiti's Grim History of Being "Open for Business" The gold mines planned for Haiti's north come on the heels of centuries of foreign investment in – and extraction of – the countries minerals and other natural and agricultural resources.
Noranda's human resource manager, Nathan Thompson, also commended the team, while Karen Kates-Thompson, Noranda's United Way campaign manager, said the support shown by the workers was a reflection of the humane side of the bauxite company.
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The company makes J$40 million per year through track user fees for the hauling of alumina and bauxite, and the residual from the rental of real estate and its three operable locomotives. The company has a staff of 76, who fulfill contractual obligations to users of the company's facilities.
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History. Colombus dubbed the island of present-day Haiti and the Dominican Republic "Hispaniola," and quickly set out to find riches with which to repay the Spanish monarchs to whom he was indebted.
Bauxite prices had remained roughly constant from 1960-71, but since then, and in particular during 1975-76, bauxite prices have doubled or even tripled in some cases.
When Haiti and other countries formed the International Bauxite Association (IBA) in 1974, royalties went up again, but within six years, Reynolds had pulled out, having extracted most of the bauxite and also in search of countries with lower royalties. Over its four decades in Haiti, Reynolds built one eight-mile road and employed about 300 people.