What metal is made with Jamaican bauxite?
bauxite is used for the manufacture of alumina via a wet chemical caustic leach method commonly known as the Bayer process. Subsequently, the majority of the resulting alumina produced from this refining process is in turn employed as the feedstock for the production of aluminium metal by the electrolytic reduction of alumina in a molten bath of natural or synthetic cryolite (Na3AlF6), the Hall-Heroult process. You can read some details on the Jamaican Bauxite Industry here: http://www.jis.gov.jm/jamaicaBauxiteInst… More on bauxite can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.
