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the rusty rock that becomes the foil wrapping your leftovers and the wings of jets
means A reddish-brown sedimentary rock rich in aluminum-bearing minerals, mined as the primary ore from which aluminum is extracted.
from Named after Les Baux-de-Provence, a village in southern France where the rock was first identified in the early 19th century — the geologist Pierre Berthier described the local ore in 1821, and it took the place's name as 'beauxite,' later smoothed to 'bauxite.' So the foil on your sandwich quietly carries the name of a Provençal hilltop.
- named after
- Les Baux, a French village, in 1821
- aluminum source
- nearly all the world's aluminum comes from it
- red mud
- refining leaves toxic crimson waste lakes
- energy hog
- smelting its metal devours staggering electricity
- top producer
- Australia digs up the most by far
guinea bauxite deposits — guinea holds 30% of world's proven bauxite reserves in the kindia and mamou regions
alcoa's darling downs mine — major bauxite mine in queensland, australia, operated continuously since 1955
jamaica bauxite company — jamaican state enterprise mining bauxite in discovery bay since 1952, once major global producer