Bauxite mining operations in Guinea | Credit: TFX (Jun 3, 2019)

Bauxite is the world's primary source of aluminium and one of the most strategically important industrial minerals globally. It is not a single mineral but a heterogeneous sedimentary rock composed predominantly of aluminium hydroxide minerals, formed by the intense weathering (lateritisation) of aluminium-rich source rocks in tropical and subtropical climates.

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