page_title: Bauxite
section_title: Production and reserves
hierarchical_section_title: Bauxite / Production and reserves
caption_attribution_description: This bubble map shows the global distribution of bauxite output in 2005 as a percentage of the top producer (Australia - 59,959,000 tonnes). This map is consistent with incomplete set of data too as long as the top producer is known. It resolves the accessibility issues faced by colour-coded maps that may not be properly rendered in old computer screens. Data was extracted on 3rd June 2007. Source - British Geological Survey http://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/commodity/world/home.html Based on Image:BlankMap-World.png
context_page_description: Bauxite is a sedimentary rock with a relatively high aluminium content. It is the world's main source of aluminium and gallium. Bauxite consists mostly of the aluminium minerals gibbsite, boehmite and diaspore, mixed with the two iron oxides goethite and haematite, the aluminium clay mineral kaolinite and small amounts of anatase and ilmenite.
  In 1821 the French geologist Pierre Berthier discovered bauxite near the village of Les Baux in Provence, southern France.
context_section_description: Australia is the largest producer of bauxite, followed by China. Increased aluminium recycling, which has the advantage of lowering the cost in electric power in producing aluminium, will considerably extend the world's bauxite reserves.
  In November 2010, Nguyen Tan Dung, the prime minister of Vietnam, announced that Vietnam's bauxite reserves might total 11,000 Mt (11 trillion kg); this would be the largest in the world.
caption: Bauxite output in 2005
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