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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bauxite
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ For example, 80 percent of our tin and 75 percent of our bauxite come from the Third World.
▪ Got a fair bauxite strike and some low-grade iron ore, but it's standard.
▪ It has three distinct stages of processing - bauxite mining, alumina refining and ingot smelting.
▪ Sugar production fell to a record low of 129,920 tonnes in 1990 and bauxite production was 15 percent below target.
▪ The Columbia River was a traffic jam of barges carrying bauxite to the smelters in Longview, Washington.
▪ The operating conditions make short-term or spot contracts highly risky; stockpiling is uneconomic, because bauxite has few alternative uses.
▪ The production of aluminium from bauxite requires about 20 times more energy than does scrap aluminium.
▪ Tropical forests are also destroyed to make way for the hydro-electric plants to smelt bauxite - used in aluminum cans.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bauxite

Bauxite \Baux"ite\, Beauxite \Beaux"ite\,n. [F., fr. Baux or Beaux, near Arles.] (Min.) A ferruginous hydrate of alumina. It is the most commonly used ore for the preparation of aluminum and alumina. It is also used for the lining of furnaces which are exposed to intense heat.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bauxite

1861, clayey mineral containing aluminum, from French bauxite (1821), from Les Baux, near Soles, where it was first found. The place name is from Provençal Li Baus, literally "the precipices."

Wiktionary
bauxite

n. The principal ore of aluminium; a clay-like mineral, being a mixture of hydrated oxides and hydroxides.

WordNet
bauxite

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

Gazetteer
Bauxite, AR -- U.S. town in Arkansas
Population (2000): 432
Housing Units (2000): 171
Land area (2000): 2.392685 sq. miles (6.197025 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.056432 sq. miles (0.146158 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.449117 sq. miles (6.343183 sq. km)
FIPS code: 04090
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 34.559107 N, 92.514038 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 72011
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Wikipedia
Bauxite

Bauxite, an aluminium ore, is the world's main source of aluminium. It consists mostly of the minerals gibbsite (Al(OH)), boehmite (γ-AlO(OH)) and diaspore (α-AlO(OH)), mixed with the two iron oxides goethite and haematite, the clay mineral kaolinite and small amounts of anatase (TiO) and ilmenite (FeTiO or FeO.TiO). In 1821 the French geologist Pierre Berthier discovered bauxite near the village of Les Baux in Provence, southern France. In 1861, French chemist Henri Sainte-Claire Deville named the mineral "bauxite".Notes:

  • In 1847, in the cumulative index of volume 3 of his series, Traité de minéralogie, French mineralogist Armand Dufrénoy listed the hydrated alumina from Les Beaux as "beauxite". (See: A. Dufrénoy, Traité de minéralogie, volume 3 (Paris, France: Carilian-Goeury et Vor Dalmont, 1847), p. 799.)
  • In 1861, H. Sainte-Claire Deville named "bauxite" on p. 309, "Chapitre 1. Minerais alumineux ou bauxite" of: H. Sainte-Claire Deville (1861) "De la présence du vanadium dans un minerai alumineux du midi de la France. Études analytiques sur les matières alumineuses." (On the presence of vanadium in an alumina mineral from the Midi of France. Analytical studies of aluminum substances.), Annales de Chimie de de Physique, 3rd series, 61 : 309-342.

Usage examples of "bauxite".

The implication is that if you are looking for bauxite, a good starting point is to find out where clay is mined for porcelain.

Refining plants are located near mine sites, if possible, since transportation is the major item in bauxite costs.

Hence, if we are mining it further away, we will be collecting the bauxite with pickaxe and shovel, carrying it out of the mine by wheelbarrow, hoist, or mine car, and shipping it to the processing plant by pack mule, wagon, barge or ship.

IAI, in southern Europe and Hungary, bauxite is most often found in pockets.

Surinamese bauxite, one ton for the Jamaican, and two tons for the Arkansan.

One possible excuse would be that Deville was influenced by the French supply of bauxite, which might not be made available to other powers.

Steel-hulled ships would make it safer to fetch Jamaican bauxite or Greenland cryolite.

Suppose we know the capital and operating costs for bauxite mining, alumina production and aluminum smelting in the twentieth century.

In 1963, the cost of mining and drying bauxite was estimated as being 1.

In 1900 Arkansas, bauxite was mined manually, and transported by wagon to the railroad station at Bryant.

As the glow faded, the stone blocks of bauxite began to fall away, no longer cemented, tumbling down into a pit hidden below the hearth.

I took enough chances in getting the meteorite down to you and in telling you where the bauxite and platinum are.

Sam had been able to trade iron weapons for bauxite, cryolite, cinnabar and platinum.

Mysterious Stranger directed the meteorite to fall right by the bauxite deposits?

But the essence of his speech was that he might cut off the bauxite and other minerals.