Year: 2024

Jamaica’s bauxite mining history has left a complex land rights legacy in which the surface of a parcel may be privately owned while the subsurface mineral rights belong to the Crown or are licensed to a mining company. Landowners in former and active mining areas who are unaware of this distinction can unknowingly purchase or sell properties that are subject to existing mining licences or subsurface claims.

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