How to Use bauxite in a Sentence

bauxite

noun
  • Guinea alone provides roughly a third of its bauxite.
    — Yinka Adegoke, semafor.com, 3 June 2026
  • 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
  • The lyrics chronicle life on the plains and the mining of bauxite, the world’s primary source of aluminum.
    — Cassidy Sollazzo, Pitchfork, 19 June 2026
  • Vibrations from dynamite used to extract bauxite have cracked the walls of people’s homes.
    — Lisa Song, ProPublica, 15 June 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
  • Aluminum is made from bauxite, the most common element in the Earth’s crust, with four to five metric tons of ore per ton of end metal.
    — Michael Barnard, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Cameroon sits atop significant reserves of oil, natural gas, cobalt, bauxite, iron ore, gold and diamonds.
    — ABC News, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Cameroon sits atop significant reserves of oil, natural gas, cobalt, bauxite, iron ore, gold and diamonds.
    — ABC News, 10 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Guinea should move beyond raw bauxite exports toward alumina refining.
    — W. Gyude Moore, semafor.com, 25 May 2026
  • Under the memorandum Ghana will cede 5% of its bauxite resources to the Chinese.
    — Alfred Oteng-Yeboah, Quartz Africa, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Last week protesters attempted to tear up Rusal’s bauxite-transporting railway line.
    — The Economist, 21 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • 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 oil, a large portion of the nation's mineral production — including nickel, bauxite, iron ore and gold — has declined over the past decade.
    — Janet Loehrke, USA Today, 5 Jan. 2026
  • 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 building a bauxite pit in Australia and an underground copper mine in Mongolia.
    — Scott Patterson, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2018
  • The technique offers three major benefits – shrinking waste piles, cutting emissions, and reducing demand for new bauxite mining.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 16 Sep. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Guinea said exports of bauxite jumped by 25% last year to meet soaring demand from China, which has recently tightened its grip on the African nation’s resources.
    — Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Cameroon sits atop significant reserves of oil, natural gas, cobalt, bauxite, iron ore, gold and diamonds, making resource extraction one of the pillars of its economy.
    — ABC News, 16 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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