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Information in this article is based on http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/bauxite/ and on documents linked from there. This is a public domain ressource. -- JeLuF 11:43 Aug 28, 2002 (PDT)
What are the units... Billion tons? What kind of tons (metric/imperial). Can't make sense of this.. ...HE LIKES TO BREAK ERASERS....
The units remain at problem’. The reserved table states it is in 1,000 Mg. Based purely on my understanding of the transport of bauxite, I think that must be 1,000 Metric tonnes, not megagrams (which is a Metric tonne if you are a math god, but not the usual nomenclature. Similarly the announcement by the Vietnamese Prime Minister is failing math. 1 Mt or tonne is 1,000 kg. 11,000 tonnes will in its entirety fit into the smallest bulker in International trade. It will fit into most coasters. Somebody needs to check the units being used and use the same one everywhere. Geekausaurus (talk) 10:59, 10 March 2020 (UTC)Reply
My spellchecker is being fired! Geekausaurus (talk) 11:01, 10 March 2020 (UTC)Reply
What percentage of this ore (Bauxite) eventuall becomes Aluminium?
This is probably just inconsequential nitpicking, but that's not a penny. Pennies are a denomination of British currency. A better caption would be "Bauxite with a cent." Cent is the actual name for that denomination of American currency. I'm not quite sure why people commonly call it a "penny" when it's not even the same value as a penny.
by using the term penny you are introducing ambiguity into wikipedia. --82.17.173.132 (talk) 18:40, 13 December 2007 (UTC)Reply"a common but unofficial name for the one-cent coin in the United States and in Canada, worth 1/100 of the dollar: see penny (U.S. coin), penny (Canadian coin). This word is not used by the United States Mint or the Royal Canadian Mint; they use cent." - penny
I find this chart much more helpful than the article. I learn from it that Australia is by far the world's biggest producer. I also learn that the world supply it virtually unlimited while the actual use of the material is infinitesimal by comparison. The article reveals none of these facts.--dunnhaupt 18:28, 9 November 2006 (UTC)Reply
How does one pronounce bauxite? Is the 'x' silent, like it would be in French? dq 14:19, 27 November 2006 (UTC)Reply
I dont understand bauxite, it makes no sense waht so ever to me. thats all folks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.166.219.8 (talk) 19:11, 3 March 2008 (UTC)Reply
I've heard it pronounced both ways, the English-based "box-ite" (or perhaps "bawks-zite") and the French-based "bow-zite". Though the French version makes more sense (the name is based on the VERY COOL French town of Les Baux, "Leh Bow"), the English version seems to be prevalent. Dlchambers (talk) 14:03, 19 August 2008 (UTC)Reply
bo-ite would be the 'french' way. no zeh sound in there. 86.131.94.47 (talk) 21:24, 4 November 2012 (UTC)Reply
Bauxites are aluminium-rich laterites which are residual rocks belonging to the sedimentary rock group. In geoscience they are not classified as soils and pedological terms as alcrete are useless in geology and only confusing. With respect to reserves and production of bauxites we should rely on the new data of U.S.G.S. and not cite hypothetic speculations on their life-span. For interested geoscientists I wrote a summary on laterites and lateritic ores under www.laterite.de --Schellat (talk) 11:37, 22 March 2008 (UTC)Reply
The Cryolite article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryolite) says that Cryolite has been mostly exhausted, and thus other chemicals are now used as a flux. I think the article should reflect this but I'm no expert on which is right. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.3.62.254 (talk) 16:48, 3 April 2008 (UTC)Reply
Almost all readers of this article are aware that aluminium and aluminum are the same thing. The former is used in British (and Australian?) English and the latter in Canadian and American. I just noticed a recent change whereby several uses of "aluminum" were changed to "aluminium", and researched the history of the article a bit, finding that it was initiated with the "um" spelling, but was converted to "ium" about a year later.
According to WP:ENGVAR, unless an article has a strong logical tie to some particular language version (for example, The Statue of LibertyorManchester United), the version of English used in an article should be maintained. If we wish to follow the rules, I think we should be using aluminum. Tim Ross (talk) 11:20, 28 July 2008 (UTC)Reply
Yes, of course, that makes very good sense. Thanks for pointing that out. Tim Ross (talk) 10:53, 30 July 2008 (UTC)Reply
What is the difference between Gibbsitic Bauxite & Boehmitic Bauxite & Diasporic Bauxite? (115.241.160.105 (talk) 05:59, 24 March 2009 (UTC))Reply
I generally love Wikipedia. But this piece is an example of a handful of articles that fall short of helpful. I begins as if talking to an experienced mineralogist, with technical jargon, rather than a short paragraph for the layman. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.247.34.238 (talk) 15:57, 29 April 2009 (UTC)Reply
A little research reveals that bauxite melts at 2000 degrees celcius. Aluminum melts at around 1220 celcius. What makes bauxite so hard to melt? —Preceding unsigned comment added by M00npirate (talk • contribs) 23:47, 11 February 2010 (UTC)Reply
I've had an attempt at fixing this, but to no avail, perhaps someone with better wiki-table-fu than me could give it try? -Oosh (talk) 12:35, 19 December 2013 (UTC)Reply
I have two questions about the first paragraph in the section "Formation", which now reads as follows:
1) What is "the early discovered carbonate bauxites"? "Early" is an adjective, not an adverb. What noun is it modifying? Perhaps this could be re-worded so that it is clearer.
2) Regarding the last clause,
I can kind of figure out what the first part means (and I could use links to figure it out even more), but this phrase, "clay dissolution residues of the limestone", is just too dense for the average reader. Could this be explained just a bit? CorinneSD (talk) 23:18, 10 April 2014 (UTC)Reply
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