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    bauxite


    1. It was only when she came on full-time that she saw the scale of the ventures she was being asked to flack: bauxite mines and cigarettes and a major coffee concern in Central America, and now, once again, real estate, on which he’d always been oddly bullish


    2. Finding and mining bauxite, the ore that contains aluminum oxide (alumina), is relatively easy


    3. But converting bauxite into aluminum requires a smelter and lots of electrical power to run the operations, which is why access to cheap power, rather than proximity to bauxite deposits, is the key factor in aluminum production


    4. 8 percent of the world’s bauxite reserves


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    "bauxite" definitions

    a clay-like mineral; the chief ore of aluminum; composed of aluminum oxides and aluminum hydroxides; used as an abrasive and catalyst