: an impure mixture of earthy hydrous aluminum oxides and hydroxides that is the principal source of aluminum
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Alcoa’s Fundamental Strengths Remain Intact Despite the current market skepticism, Alcoa's core business fundamentals reflect a more encouraging picture:
Alcoa ranks among the world's top producers of aluminum, bauxite, and alumina.
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Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Malaysia, for example, has enviable stores of bauxite aluminum, copper, gas, gold, hardwoods, iron, mercury, palm oil, tin and other products.
—William Pesek, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
Gallium is typically extracted from bauxite ores as they are being processed to make aluminum oxide, while zinc miners sometimes squeeze germanium out of waste produced during refining.
—Maddie Stone, WIRED, 15 Feb. 2025
Aluminum is the most abundant metallic element in the Earth’s crust and can be obtained from bauxite ore.
—David Bressan, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
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Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Malaysia, for example, has enviable stores of bauxite aluminum, copper, gas, gold, hardwoods, iron, mercury, palm oil, tin and other products.
—William Pesek, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2025
Gallium is typically extracted from bauxite ores as they are being processed to make aluminum oxide, while zinc miners sometimes squeeze germanium out of waste produced during refining.
—Maddie Stone, WIRED, 15 Feb. 2025
Aluminum is the most abundant metallic element in the Earth’s crust and can be obtained from bauxite ore.
—David Bressan, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2024
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“Bauxite.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bauxite. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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bauxite
noun
baux·ite
ˈbȯk-ˌsīt 
ˈbäk-
: a clayey substance that is the principal ore of aluminum
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