where does aluminum come from
Confidence votes 77.6K. Aluminum comes mostly from an aluminum ore called bauxite. It is mined out of the ground in large geological formations found in Ghana, Indonesia, Jamaica, Russia and Surinam, but it is also abundantly deposited in Australia and Brazil.t has the symbol Al; its atomic number is 13. It is not soluble in water under normal â¦ circumstances. Aluminium is too reactive chemically to occur in nature as the free metal. Instead, it is found combined in over 270 different minerals. The chief source of aluminum is bauxite ore.