As China keeps adding higher-cost capacity for bauxite and alumina, Alumina becomes relatively lower cost still.
Optimists and they do exist talk of new hotels, public-sector reform, bauxite investments and relaxing the telecoms monopoly.
Mr Chi runs an environmentalist blog, Bauxite Vietnam, that criticises Chinese-run bauxite mines in Vietnam.
They possess reserves of oil, gas, coal, gold, silver, diamonds, bauxite, cobalt, uranium, coltan and many more.
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Vast ship-borne imports of iron ore, coal and bauxite make up other raw ingredients for Chinese growth.
Though it is one of poorest places on earth, it has deposits of diamonds, rutile and bauxite.
First, you dig up bauxite which you then crush and boil in sodium hydroxide (lye, or caustic soda).
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And the market for bauxite and alumina, its main export goods, has been rockier than for other commodities.
The reason is that there are two new technologies vying to make the bauxite to alumina process more efficient.
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And then electrolysis technology was invented which used electricity to liberate aluminum from bauxite.
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An Indian government panel advised against allowing Vedanta Resources to mine for bauxite in the eastern state of Orissa.
Take the fallout from a deal between the Russian aluminium concern Rusal and the government of Guinea to mine bauxite.
Vedanta suffered another setback last month when the Indian environment ministry rejected its plans to extract bauxite in the eastern state of Orissa.
Guinea has a third of the world's bauxite reserves, as well as gold, diamonds, iron ore and vast hydroelectric potential.
But if you run the whole process, from mine onwards, then that makes your bauxite end of the process worth less.
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In Guyana Chinese companies mine bauxite and want to build a hydroelectric plant and a hotel and to modernise the main airport.
Output could rise as much as 50% from the same bauxite inputs.
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Aluminum was so valuable because it was extremely difficult to extract from bauxite though it is one of the most abundant elements on Earth.
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Foday Sankoh, an important rebel leader, has been given the plum job that was promised him, controlling the country's diamond and bauxite resources.
By putting a dollar value on everything from bauxite to brainpower, the UN's exercise makes all three kinds of capital comparable and commensurable.
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Vedanta, owned by Indian businessman Anil Agarwal, wants to extract bauxite from the Niyamgiri hill range which is revered by the Dongria Kondh tribe.
UK-based Vedanta, owned by Indian businessman Anil Agarwal, wants to extract bauxite from the Niyamgiri Hill range which is revered by the Dongria Kondh tribe.
On Thursday, the judges maintained the ban on bauxite mining in the Niyamgiri hill range and said the rights of local tribespeople must be considered.
Chhattisgarh is rich with minerals such as iron ore and bauxite.
Our presence is in fabricating, not in bauxite mining or smelting.
India has world-class bauxite reserves and significant reserves of thermal coal.
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India's top court has said local villagers will have a say on whether to allow mining group Vedanta to extract bauxite in the state of Orissa.
Rio Tinto competes with global metals and mining giants like Vale, BHP, Freeport McMoran and other companies that mine bauxite, copper, coal and iron ore.
Forty percent of bauxite is mined underground, which is unusual.
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