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, FeTiO₃, and FeOTiO₂.^[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 2017.^[3]

Rank	Country/Region	Bauxite (thousand tonnes)
	World	300,000
1	Australia	83,000
2	China	68,000
3	Guinea	45,000
4	Brazil	36,000
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

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