bauxite

• The atom-blasting units absorbed the gushing stream of bauxite, already pulverized at the mines, and with noiseless, yet supernal forces within their rounded bellies, tore the electrons from their flashing orbits, sent uncounted trillions of positrons on their ephemeral paths, flashed them both into annihilation, and thereby released in a blaze of photon bullets and gamma rays the stored energy of matter. —  Astounding Stories June, 1935
• Mountains are flattened to mine bauxite, the main aluminium ore. —  Kafila
• Trade: Exports (2007): bauxite, alumina, diamonds, gold, coffee, pineapples, bananas, palm products.
• Richly endowed with minerals, Guinea possesses over 25 billion metric tons (MT) of bauxite -- and perhaps up to one half of the world's reserves.
• It will slow expansion of the Yarwun refinery and the production of bauxite, the main mineral used to produce aluminium, by 23\% to 15 million tonnes. —  BBC (UK) Homepage main promotional content

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