June 2018c

68 69 LYDFORD MINING CO. DIGGING THE MOMENTUM L ydford Mining is a multi-million dollar operation that mines and processes high purity limestone products in re- source-laden Jamaica. Located in St. Ann, the birth parish of Reggae legend Bob Marley, this thriving company is ideally posi- tioned geographically and experience-wise for exceptional growth. Business View Caribbean first featured Lyd- ford Mining in our December 2016 issue. The business has been so suc- cessful since, that we revis- ited Director Edgar Cousins to learn about the company’s latest endeav- ors and insights into the future of the limestone industry in Jamaica and globally. The following is an edited transcript of that conversation: BVC: Welcome back, Edgar. Can you tell us how Lydford Mines has evolved in the past year and a half? Cousins: “A few significant things have hap- pened. In the last report, we had just complet- ed a three million US dollar expansion of our AT A GLANCE LYDFORD MINING CO. WHAT: A company that mines and processes high purity limestone products WHERE: Kingston, Jamaica WEBSITE: lydmin@cwjamaica.com