Talk:Bauxite

message: What are the units... Billion tons? What kind of tons (metric/imperial). Can't make sense of this.. ...HE LIKES TO BREAK ERASERS....
:Units used on the table are basically kilotonnes (metric system, 1000 x 1000 Kg; 1 tonne = 1000 Kg)... Assuming correct spelling you can tell the difference between tons and tonnes easily.--Staphylococcus 14:25, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Units 

message: What percentage of this ore (Bauxite) eventuall becomes Aluminium?
:I seem to remember reading somewhere that 4kg of bauzite is needed to make 1kg of aluminium. Indeed, a quick search here seems to confirm this. (the site says 4.1 tonnes bauxite --> 1 tonne Al) i wouldnt mind finding another source though. —deanos {ptaa*lgke} 06:09, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Efficiency 

message: I find this chart much more helpful than the article.  I learn from it that Australia is by far the world's biggest producer.  I also learn that the world supply it virtually unlimited while the actual use of the material is infinitesimal by comparison. The article reveals none of these facts.--dunnhaupt 18:28, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I guess the production is limited by the amount of energy it takes. The article does not mention that (or any other cause) either. 130.89.228.82 21:47, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  World Production and Reserves

message: How does one pronounce bauxite? Is the 'x' silent, like it would be in French? dq 14:19, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The 'x' is pronounced either as 'ks' or as a 'z'. Some dictionaries don't even mention the 'z' pronunciation though. I guess 'ks' is more common. User:130.89.228666.89.228.82 21:45, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  So you're saying it's most of the time pronounced "bow-ksite"? Weird. I thought since the word has a French basis it would be silent. dq 02:56, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: its generally, at least in the UK pronounced bork-site --82.17.173.132 (talk) 18:42, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

text: Meriam-Webster provides an audio pronunciation of bauxite here. Sounds like "box-site" to me, although I learned to say "bawk-site" in several different geology courses (in the U.S.). Tim Ross (talk) 15:51, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation? 

message: Bauxites are aluminium-rich laterites which are residual rocks belonging to the sedimentary rock group. In geoscience they are not classified as soils and pedological terms as alcrete are useless in geology and only confusing. With respect to reserves and  production of bauxites we should rely on the new data of U.S.G.S. and not cite hypothetic speculations on their life-span. For interested geoscientists I wrote a summary on laterites and lateritic ores under www.laterite.de --Schellat (talk) 11:37, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bauxite classification and reserves 

message: The Cryolite article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryolite) says that Cryolite has been mostly exhausted, and thus other chemicals are now used as a flux. I think the article should reflect this but I'm no expert on which is right.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.3.62.254 (talk) 16:48, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  There was one Cryolite mine in Greeenland it is mined out; there was one rumor (which I have not seen confirmed) that there was another occurence in Siberia with about half the concentration. Theya re still using Cryolite to melt aluminium oxide at lower temperature than boiling point of aluminium (solving aluminiumoxide in cryolite lovers the melting point enough), what they are using is syntethic cryolite. Melting Bauxite is usually not done in industry, they dissolve it to remove impurities and percipiate out pure aluminium oxide.Seniorsag (talk) 13:55, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cryolite? 

message: Almost all readers of this article are aware that aluminium and aluminum are the same thing. The former is used in British (and Australian?) English and the latter in Canadian and American. I just noticed a recent change whereby several uses of "aluminum" were changed to "aluminium", and researched the history of the article a bit, finding that it was initiated with the "um" spelling, but was converted to "ium" about a year later.
According to WP:ENGVAR, unless an article has a strong logical tie to some particular language version (for example, The Statue of Liberty or Manchester United), the version of English used in an article should be maintained. If we wish to follow the rules, I think we should be using aluminum. Tim Ross (talk) 11:20, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: But see WP:ALUM. For aluminium, caesium, and sulfur, the consensus is to use the IUPAC spelling. --Itub (talk) 09:23, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  aluminium vs. aluminum 

message: What is the difference between Gibbsitic Bauxite & Boehmitic Bauxite & Diasporic Bauxite?
(115.241.160.105 (talk) 05:59, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The mineral composition differs: Boehmite Gibbsite Diaspore are the main minerals in that types of bauxite and give name to it.--Stone (talk) 11:08, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bauxite 

message: I generally love Wikipedia. But this piece is an example of a handful of articles that fall short of helpful. I begins as if talking to an experienced mineralogist, with technical jargon, rather than a short paragraph for the layman.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.247.34.238 (talk) 15:57, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tech Talk 

message: A little research reveals that bauxite melts at 2000 degrees celcius. Aluminum melts at around 1220 celcius. What makes bauxite so hard to melt?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by M00npirate (talk • contribs) 23:47, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: See also Cryolite above in this talk.Seniorsag (talk) 13:56, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Melting Bauxite 

message: I've had an attempt at fixing this, but to no avail, perhaps someone with better wiki-table-fu than me could give it try? -Oosh (talk) 12:35, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sorting of the Production trends table 

message: I have two questions about the first paragraph in the section "Formation", which now reads as follows:
:Lateritic bauxites (silicate bauxites) are distinguished from karst bauxite ores (carbonate bauxites). The early discovered carbonate bauxites occur predominantly in Europe and Jamaica above carbonate rocks (limestone and dolomite), where they were formed by lateritic weathering and residual accumulation of intercalated clays or by clay dissolution residues of the limestone.
1) What is "the early discovered carbonate bauxites"? "Early" is an adjective, not an adverb. What noun is it modifying? Perhaps this could be re-worded so that it is clearer.
2) Regarding the last clause,
:::where they were formed by lateritic weathering and residual accumulation of intercalated clays or by clay dissolution residues of the limestone,
I can kind of figure out what the first part means (and I could use links to figure it out even more), but this phrase, "clay dissolution residues of the limestone", is just too dense for the average reader. Could this be explained just a bit? CorinneSD (talk) 23:18, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Made an attempt at rewording ... hopefully better. rather needs a ref to support. Vsmith (talk) 01:00, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: It's much better. Thank you. CorinneSD (talk) 01:33, 11 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Formation 

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