Question

What is bauxite? Explain it in five points.

Answer 1

1.Many people are surprised to learn that bauxite is not a mineral. 2.It is a rock composed mainly of aluminum-bearing minerals. 3.It forms when laterite soils are severely leached of silica and other soluble materials in a wet tropical or subtropical climate.

4.Bauxite is the primary ore of aluminum.
5. It is a mixture of hydrous aluminum oxides, aluminum hydroxides, clay minerals, and insoluble materials such as quartz, hematite, magnetite, siderite, and goethite.