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    Bauxite (/ˈbɔːksaɪt/) is a sedimentary rock with a relatively high aluminium content. It is the world's main source of aluminium and gallium. Bauxite...
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    Bauxite fibrosis is a progressive form of pneumoconiosis usually caused by occupational exposure to bauxite fumes which contain aluminium and silica particulates...
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    Red mud (redirect from Bauxite tailings)
    Red mud, now more frequently termed bauxite residue, is an industrial waste generated during the processing of bauxite into alumina using the Bayer process...
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    Bauxite is a city in Saline County, Arkansas, United States. Located within Central Arkansas, the city is named for bauxite, the source ore for aluminum...
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    The Weipa bauxite mine is a bauxite mine at Weipa on the western Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, Australia. A geologist named Harry Evans...
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    aluminium. Australia is the world's largest bauxite producer, producing almost a third of global bauxite. Bauxite is mined in Australia using open-cut mining...
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  • industrial means of refining bauxite to produce alumina (aluminium oxide) and was developed by Carl Josef Bayer. Bauxite, the most important ore of aluminium...
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    Compagnie des bauxites de Guinée (CBG) is a Guinean mining company. Since 1963 it has extracted bauxite from the notable mine in Sangarédi, in Boké Region...
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  • The Bauxite of Cornet is a geological formation in Romania whose strata date back to the Early Cretaceous. Dinosaur remains are among the fossils that...
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  • a list of countries by bauxite production in 2023. It exhibits certain changes from the geographical rankings of 2022. "Bauxite and Alumina 2023 Annual...
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    Bauxite mining in the United States produced an estimated 128,000 metric tonnes of bauxite in 2013. Although the United States was an important source...
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    in the Gramercy alumina refinery in Louisiana and associated Jamaican bauxite deposits. By 2005, the company had operations in 18 countries. Noranda...
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    bauxite (AlOx(OH)3–2x). Bauxite occurs as a weathering product of low iron and silica bedrock in tropical climatic conditions. In 2017, most bauxite was...
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    Laterite (section Bauxite)
    gibbsite, boehmite, and diaspore, which resembles the composition of bauxite. In Northern Ireland they once provided a major source of iron and aluminum...
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    agriculture and mineral production. It is the world's second largest producer of bauxite, and has deposits of diamonds and gold. As of the most recent survey in...
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    plan for bauxite was approved by the Vietnamese government in 2007. Vinacomin, a Vietnamese mining company, has laid out a plan for 6 bauxite mining projects...
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  • USS Bauxite (IX-154), a Trefoil-class concrete barge designated an unclassified miscellaneous vessel, was the only ship of the United States Navy to be...
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    because it has large reserves of lead, zinc, silver, nickel, cobalt, copper, iron and bauxite. Miners at the Trepča Mines in Mitrovica, Kosovo in 2011....
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    single bauxite importer. In Guinea, China Hongqiao set up a joint-venture mining company and a river port company, concentrating primarily on bauxite mining...
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    is one of the main industries in Malaysia. Malaysia produces aggregate, bauxite, clay, coal, copper, feldspar, gold, gravel, ilmenite, iron ore, kaolin...
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  • The Mediterranean Bauxite Province is a major region of high-quality bauxite ores that stretches for 3,000 km along the northern shore of the Mediterranean...
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    Linden, Guyana (category Bauxite mining in Guyana)
    It is primarily a bauxite mining town, containing many mines 60–90 m deep, with many other pits now in disuse. Commercial bauxite mining started in Linden...
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    Geological Survey, Vietnam is estimated to hold the world's third-largest bauxite ore reserves after Guinea and Australia. The majority of Vietnam's reserves...
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  • exports of aluminium oxide and small amounts of aluminium produced from bauxite mined in the country. However, after the departure of Alcoa, the economy...
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    Youjiang, have very high-quality bauxite, a raw material for making aluminum. Currently, the proven reserves of bauxite in Guangxi are about 1 billion tons...
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  • a significant contributor to the economy owing to sizable reserves of bauxite, gold, and diamonds. Much of these resources are found in Guyana's Hilly...
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    minerals are the main component of bauxite, the principal ore of aluminium. A mixture of the minerals comprise bauxite ore, including gibbsite (Al(OH)3)...
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    hosts large deposits of the aluminum-rich sedimentary rock bauxite. The discovery of bauxite deposits approximately 70 years ago made Brazil one of the...
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    Compagnie des bauxites de Kindia (CBK) is a Guinean company in the mining sector. Since 2001, it has mined the large Kindia Bauxite deposit in Kindia...
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    economy is heavily dependent on its abundant natural resources, namely bauxite, gold, petroleum, and agricultural products. Suriname is a member of the...
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