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    Aluminum Production and Refining in The Caribbean

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    Bauxite mining in the Caribbean has environmental impacts. Bauxite is the chief ore of aluminum and is extracted from open pit mines in Jamaica and Guyana. For every ton of bauxite ore removed, about 3 tons of mining waste is produced, which can pollute streams and cause erosion. The bauxite ore is refined into alumina using a caustic soda process that produces toxic waste slags. Aluminum smelting to produce ingots from alumina is also very energy intensive, using massive amounts of electricity usually from coal, and produces 4.1 tons of air pollutants for every 1 ton of aluminum.

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    Bauxite mining in the Caribbean has environmental impacts. Bauxite is the chief ore of aluminum and is extracted from open pit mines in Jamaica and Guyana. For every ton of bauxite ore removed, about 3 tons of mining waste is produced, which can pollute streams and cause erosion. The bauxite ore is refined into alumina using a caustic soda process that produces toxic waste slags. Aluminum smelting to produce ingots from alumina is also very energy intensive, using massive amounts of electricity usually from coal, and produces 4.1 tons of air pollutants for every 1 ton of aluminum.

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    Bauxite mining in the Caribbean has environmental impacts. Bauxite is the chief ore of aluminum and is extracted from open pit mines in Jamaica and Guyana. For every ton of bauxite ore removed, about 3 tons of mining waste is produced, which can pollute streams and cause erosion. The bauxite ore is refined into alumina using a caustic soda process that produces toxic waste slags. Aluminum smelting to produce ingots from alumina is also very energy intensive, using massive amounts of electricity usually from coal, and produces 4.1 tons of air pollutants for every 1 ton of aluminum.

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    Aluminum Production and Refining in The Caribbean

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    Bauxite mining in the Caribbean has environmental impacts. Bauxite is the chief ore of aluminum and is extracted from open pit mines in Jamaica and Guyana. For every ton of bauxite ore removed, about 3 tons of mining waste is produced, which can pollute streams and cause erosion. The bauxite ore is refined into alumina using a caustic soda process that produces toxic waste slags. Aluminum smelting to produce ingots from alumina is also very energy intensive, using massive amounts of electricity usually from coal, and produces 4.1 tons of air pollutants for every 1 ton of aluminum.

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    Bauxite In the Caribbean

    What's Bauxite
    Bauxite is formed in weathered volcanic rocks. Bauxite maily contains aluminium ore, which is very expensive. Bauxite is used in cement, face make up, soda cans and dishwashers. an amorphous clayey rock that is the chief commercial ore of aluminium. It consists lar!ely of hydrated alumina with variable proportions of iron oxides

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