How to Use bauxite in a Sentence

bauxite

noun
Definition of bauxitenext
  • The trucks had already made their first bauxite delivery of the day to the port and were returning to the strip mines for more.
    — Rachel Chason and Chloe Sharrock, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Apr. 2023
  • As indicated in the 1999 report of the GSI, though, the lithium in the Reasi district is mixed with bauxite.
    — Manish Kumar, Quartz, 20 Feb. 2023
  • Reserves Guinea, one of the world’s poorest countries, sits on Earth’s largest bauxite reserves.
    — Cate Brown, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Mining has long been a nuisance in the Boké region, which is rich in bauxite, the mineral ore that makes aluminum.
    — Lisa Song, ProPublica, 15 June 2023
  • Under the memorandum Ghana will cede 5% of its bauxite resources to the Chinese.
    — Alfred Oteng-Yeboah, Quartz Africa, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Vibrations from dynamite used to extract bauxite have cracked the walls of people’s homes.
    — Lisa Song, ProPublica, 15 June 2023
  • About seven billion metric tons, or a quarter of the world’s bauxite resources, are estimated to be in Guinea.
    — Costas Paris, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2018
  • Income from tourism and bauxite, the main earners of foreign exchange, had plunged in the aftermath of the global financial crisis.
    — The Economist, 9 Nov. 2019
  • West Africa has been exploited for her ivory, diamonds, rubber, cocoa, coffee, and now palm oil, bauxite, and iron ore too.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian, 21 Oct. 2017
  • Thursday’s report showed the dollar value of bauxite and aluminum imports increased in March from the prior month, as did imports of iron and steel mill products.
    — Ben Leubsdorf, WSJ, 3 May 2018
  • Alongside the human cost, the rebel attacks are a setback to government efforts to open up to investment regions which are rich in iron ore, coal, bauxite and manganese.
    — Bibhudatta Pradhan, Bloomberg.com, 8 May 2017
  • The factory, with its 15 hulking concrete silos as tall as eight-story buildings, used to import bauxite ore mined from West Africa and Australia.
    — Keith Bradsher and Ailin Tang, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2018
  • Last year Ghana signed a memorandum with China to explore Ghana’s deposits of bauxite—the primary ore in aluminum.
    — Alfred Oteng-Yeboah, Quartz Africa, 21 Aug. 2019
  • That process isn’t absolutely zero-impact, but that must be taken in the context of the effects of mining new bauxite ore, which then still has to be processed into aluminum.
    — Stacey McKenna, Cincinnati.com, 5 July 2018
  • Rio Tinto is plowing billions into a giant Mongolian copper mine and is moving ahead on a big bauxite and iron-ore project in Australia.
    — Scott Patterson, WSJ, 22 Aug. 2017
  • Participants ate salad using biodegradable cutlery and drank seltzer from cans that could have been smelted from Guinean bauxite.
    — Lisa Song, ProPublica, 15 June 2023
  • Even the Fouta Djallon has mining issues, as the region is rich in bauxite, and the looming threat of a possible hydroelectric dam project which would destroy a large swath of habitat.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Smithsonian, 21 Oct. 2017
  • One planned in the county will lead to downtown Benton, with its historic courthouse, a museum that is said to be the world's only building made out of bauxite, and a collection of restaurants, shops and boutiques.
    — Josh Snyder, Arkansas Online, 31 July 2023
  • Rio Tinto is building a bauxite pit in Australia and an underground copper mine in Mongolia.
    — Scott Patterson, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2018
  • Alumina, produced from bauxite, is smelted to make aluminum.
    — Rhiannon Hoyle, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018
  • Guinea is a hotbed of mining activity in recent months as aluminum firms from the U.S., China and Russia, try to carve out a piece of its massive bauxite-ore deposits used to produce alumina and aluminum.
    — Costas Paris, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2018
  • The country is braced for a rapid transitioning from a relatively poor exporter of sugar, gold and bauxite, into one of South America’s richest countries.
    — Kevin Crowley, Bloomberg.com, 29 Apr. 2020
  • Last week protesters attempted to tear up Rusal’s bauxite-transporting railway line.
    — The Economist, 21 Oct. 2019
  • Sierra Leone has abundant natural wealth, including diamonds, bauxite and iron ore, but the country is one of the world’s poorest, with high rates of maternal and infant mortality.
    — Jaime Yaya Barry, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2018
  • The West African nation is seeking to derive more value from its bauxite resources by expanding the country’s processing capacity.
    — Andre Janse Van Vuuren, Bloomberg.com, 6 Mar. 2018
  • China’s demand for everything from oil to timber to bauxite drove up global prices, and the Russian economy benefited enormously because of it.
    — Bill Powell, Newsweek, 18 May 2017
  • Indeed, Guyana nationalized, and Jamaica partly nationalized, their bauxite mines in the 1970s.
    — Greg Ip, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Raw materials including coke, which helps to fuel iron-ore smelters, and caustic soda, used to extract alumina from bauxite, are also rocketing higher in price.
    — Rhiannon Hoyle, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2018
  • The Ghanain government is also considering plans to sell some of that land to Chinese developers to mine for bauxite, a mineral important for creating aluminum.
    — National Geographic, 2 Mar. 2020
  • The place where your errant dart fell is fabled for its mineral wealth, especially iron, coal, tin, and bauxite, and yet its inhabitants, most of whom belong to India’s indigenous population, the adivasis, are among the poorest in the country.
    — Amitava Kumar, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2017

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