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Sustainable Mining Project takes Engineering Project of the Year
November 2024
Lydford Mining Company has been named the winner of the prestigious Award for Engineering Project of the Year by the Jamaica Institution of Engineers (JIE) for their groundbreaking initiative, Engineered Sustainability in Limestone Mining. The announcement was made recently during a gala and awards dinner at The Jamaica Pegasus Hotel.
Lydford Mining pledges 30 truckloads of material to kick-start reconstruction after Hurricane Beryl
July 2024
Aubyn Hill, the minister of industry, investment, and commerce, has made a sweeping call to private sector stakeholders to aid in rebuilding communities affected by Hurricane Beryl with an eye for more resilient structures. The minister, a St Elizabeth native, invited members of Lydford Mining Company and Jamaica Institution of Engineers (JIE) to tour communities on July 10.
Lydford celebrates three decades of mining success
July 2024
A pioneer in limestone exploration, Lydford Mining Company has for more than three decades been on a mission to develop a world-class industry in Jamaica. Founded by Leo Cousins and the late Dr Vincent Hill in 1992, the company today has not only fulfilled key objectives but continues to blaze the trail in achieving year on year successes.
Lydford Mining brings crucial support to St Ann schools amid water scarcity
May 2024
Lydford Mining has extended a helping hand, donating approximately 1,998 gallons of water, equivalent to nearly $2.4 million in costs absorbed by Lydford, to schools in the community.
Source: OUR Today
Ministers Shaw and Hill show support For export market as Lydford Mining makes second major shipment to US-Based Vulcan Materials Company
May 2023
Ministers Audley Shaw and Aubyn Hill welcomed representatives from Vulcan Materials, the USA’s largest producer of construction aggregates. This is the Company’s second visit to Jamaica as part of a commercial arrangement with Lydford Mining Company to supply high-purity limestone aggregates to Vulcan.
Source: Jamaica Gleaner
Lydford Mining partners with American company Vulcan to triple exports
May 2023
Lydford Mining has entered into a sales arrangement with Vulcan Materials, one of the largest producers of construction aggregates in the United States, an agreement that’s poised to triple the amount of aggregates the Ocho Rios-based company ships.
Jamaica exports largest single bulk shipment of limestone
February 2023
Jamaica marked a major milestone with the largest single bulk shipment of limestone being loaded by Lydford Mining. The material was transported by motor vessel Donald M. James, the largest bulk carrier to ever visit the island. It departed with 55,000 tons of chemical-grade limestone.
Lydford to supply new market in Bermuda after US inroad
November 2022
On the heels of its breakthrough into the continental US, Lydford Mining Company is gearing up to supply another new market with aggregates.
Jamaican company secures first limestone shipment to US
October 2022
Lydford Mining Company has secured its first shipment of construction-grade limestone to the United States. The team worked over four days with 1,000 trucks to load 36,000 metric tonnes of three-quarter inch stone, which will be used in the production of concrete aggregates in Savannah, Georgia.
Lydford Mining scholarships bring hope to rural area
September 2021
As part of a continued effort to increase the capacity and learning potential of local youth, Lydford Mining Limited has awarded 15 scholarships for students at the primary, secondary and tertiary levels.
Lydford mining executes us$1-million limestone shipment
June 05, 2020
Lydford Mining Limited last Sunday made its first major shipment of processed limestone valued at US$1 million. The shipment, which left from Reynolds Pier in Ocho Rios for the United States, contained 35,000 tons of food and pharmaceutical-grade limestone aggregate which will be utilised in many applications in the food and pharmaceutical industry.
Lydford Mining making history in limestone export
June 10, 2019
Lydford Mining, a quiet powerhouse in the local mining sector, has, in recent years, expanded its operations from a small limestone-mining company which began in 1993 to become an international exporter operating out of Lydford, St Ann…
Digging the momentum
June 22, 2018
Leo Cousins and Vincent Hill are engineers by profession who have mined success in the Jamaican hills. They are the owners of Lydford Mining, a multi-million dollar operation located in St. Ann, the birth parish of Reggae legend Bob Marley…
Lucrative Limestone
December 18, 2016
Lydford Mining, a company that mines and processes high purity limestone products, was established in 1991 in St. Ann Parish, Jamaica. “It was founded by Dr. Vincent Hill and Leo Cousins,” says Edgar Cousins, Leo’s son and the company’s…
Lydford to enter manufacturing of drugs, food products
August 22, 2014
Lydford Mining Company Limited will enter its third joint-venture deal in 2015, this time for a new manufacturing operation to extract ground calcium carbonate (GCC) from limestone for use in the production of food additives and pharmaceutical…