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  Aluminium | Geoscience Australia

  2024419 · Formation Bauxite is the most common aluminium ore. Bauxite occurs as a weathered cover or blanket, known as laterite or duricrust, over a variety of alumina-bearing rocks. It forms when large amounts of rainfall leach away the more mobile elements in the host rock leaving the relatively immobile aluminium with some silicon, iron and titanium.

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  Bauxite - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

   · Bauxite is a reddish-brown clay-like deposit containing iron, silicates and aluminium oxides, the latter comprising the largest constituents. At present, bauxite is so plentiful that only deposits containing a content of aluminium oxides greater than 45% are selected to manufacture aluminium.

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  Bauxite | SpringerLink

  2020129 · Bauxite is the world’s main source of aluminium, and Suriname has a long history of mining and processing this ore for export.

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  The Australian Aluminium Council - Alumina Refining

  Australia is the second largest producer of alumina in the world, with around 15 per cent of global production from six alumina refineries. As water is a key input for refining bauxite into alumina, Australian alumina refineries are located in areas with reliable water supply.

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  Bauxite Beneficiation: An Approach to Value Addition in Mining

  202172 · The primary objective of beneficiation for non-metallurgical bauxite is to lower iron and titanium contents in the product, and also to enhance alumina values. This often requires more complicated processes, such as the use of a high-intensity wet magnetic separator, with fine grinding of bauxite to liberate the iron minerals.

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  High Temperature Treatment of Selected Iron Rich Bauxite …

  20211130 · The Pedersen process is a method to produce alumina from Al-containing sources, and it is a more material-efficient method than the current commercial Bayer process, since the formation of bauxite residue (red mud) is avoided, and the bauxite can be holistically consumed. The smelting reduction (SR) part of the Pedersen process yields …

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  Enhanced removal of iron minerals from high-iron bauxite …

  2020715 · An advanced roasting technique for removing iron from high-iron bauxite, based on static pre-roasting in air and suspension roasting by hydrogen under fluidized conditions followed by magnetic separation was developed in this study.

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  Bauxite - New World Encyclopedia

  2  · The bulk of the world's bauxite production is processed into alumina (aluminum oxide) and then into aluminum. In the Bayer process, bauxites are heated in pressure vessels with sodium hydroxide solution at 150-200 °C. As a result, the aluminum in the ore is dissolved as aluminate, and the iron-rich residue (red mud) is separated by filtering.

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  Bauxite Mining: Process Description

  Bauxite is converted to alumina using the Bayer process. Bauxite is combined with caustic soda, lime, and steam to produce a sodium aluminate liquor. Impurities are filtered or settled out of the liquor and alumina hydrate is precipitated out of the mixture. The alumina hydrate is calcined to remove moisture and drive off the bonded water. The resulting alumina is …

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