List of countries by bauxite production

World bauxite output in 2005.

Bauxite is the most important aluminum ore. This form of rock consists mostly of the minerals gibbsite Al(OH)₃, boehmite γ-AlO(OH), and diaspore α-AlO(OH), in a mixture that usually includes the two iron oxides goethite and hematite, and may include the clay mineral kaolinite, and small amounts of the titanium minerals anatase TiO₂, Ilmenite, FeTi 0₃, and FeO Ti0₂.^[1][2] Bauxite was named after the village Les Baux in southern France, where it was first recognised as containing aluminium and named by the French geologist Pierre Berthier in 1821.

List of producing countries

This is a list of countries by bauxite production in 2014.

Rank	Country/Region	Bauxite (thousand tonnes)
	World	234,000
1	Australia	81,000
2	China	47,000
3	Brazil	32,500
4	Guinea	19,300
5	India	19,000
6	Jamaica	9,800
7	Kazakhstan	5,500
8	Russia	5,300
9	Suriname	2,700
10	Venezuela	2,200
11	Greece	2,100
12	Guyana	1,800
13	Vietnam	1,000
14	Indonesia	500
	Other Countries	4,760

Citations

1. Geological Survey Professional Paper page b20
2. The Clay Minerals Society Glossary for Clay Science Project

External links

• http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/bauxite/mcs-2015-bauxi.pdf