List of the largest bauxite producers
The list of the largest bauxite producers in 2017 shows Australia (83 million tons), the People's Republic of China (68 million tons), Guinea (45 million tons), Brazil (36 million tons) and India (27 million tons) as the world's most important mining nations of bauxite , which made up 72.2 percent of the 300 million tons mined worldwide.
Large deposits exist in Australia, Asia (China, India, Kazakhstan, Indonesia), South America (Brazil, Venezuela, Suriname, Guyana), Central America (Jamaica) and West Africa (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ghana). In Europe there are important mining areas in Russia, Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Hungary. In Germany there are only small and insignificant bauxite deposits for aluminum production .
Production, reserves and stock base
Production and reserves are listed in tons. The United States Geological Survey offers the following definition of this: The reserves are that part of the supply base that could be economically extracted or produced at a given time. The term does not have to mean that extraction systems are installed and working. Reserves only contain exploitable substances.
rank | country | advancement | Reserves |
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1. | Australia | 83.0 | 6,000 |
2. | People's Republic of China | 68.0 | 1,000 |
3. | Guinea | 45.0 | 7,400 |
4th | Brazil | 36.0 | 2,600 |
5. | India | 27.0 | 830 |
6th | Jamaica | 8.1 | 2,000 |
7th | Russia | 5.6 | 500 |
8th. | Kazakhstan | 5.0 | 160 |
9. | Saudi Arabia | 3.9 | 210 |
10. | Indonesia | 3.6 | 1,000 |
11. | Vietnam | 2.0 | 3,700 |
12. | Greece | 1.8 | 250 |
13. | Guyana | 1.5 | 850 |
14th | Malaysia | 1.0 | 110 |
other countries | 9.0 | 3,200 | |
whole world | 300 | 30,000 |
Promotion by country
All figures relate to the states within their current borders.
country | 1970 | 1980 | 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
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Australia | 9,256 | 27,179 | 41,391 | 53,802 | 59,959 | 61,780 | 62,398 | 61,389 | 68,414 | 69,976 | 76,282 | 81,109 | 78,633 |
People's Republic of China | 500 | 1,500 | 2,400 | 9,000 | 22,000 | 27,000 | 30,000 | 35,000 | 44,000 | 45,000 | 47,000 | 46,000 | 55,000 |
Brazil | 510 | 5,538 | 9,678 | 13,866 | 22,034 | 22,055 | 22,100 | 22,000 | 32,028 | 33,625 | 34,956 | 32,481 | 34,800 |
Guinea | 2,600 | 11,862 | 15,772 | 15,700 | 16,817 | 16,956 | 18,519 | 18,500 | 15,900 | 15,696 | 16,041 | 16,887 | 17,258 |
India | 1,370 | 1,785 | 4,852 | 7,562 | 12,385 | 13,940 | 20,343 | 21,210 | 14,124 | 12,723 | 13,600 | 15,360 | 16,500 |
Jamaica | 12,010 | 12,054 | 10,921 | 11,127 | 14,116 | 14,865 | 14,568 | 14,000 | 8,540 | 10.189 | 9,339 | 9,435 | 9,677 |
Russia | 3,800 | 4,100 | 4,900 | 4,200 | 6,400 | 6,600 | 6,400 | 6,300 | 5,690 | 5,943 | 5,166 | 5,322 | 5,589 |
Kazakhstan | 500 | 500 | 600 | 3,730 | 4,800 | 4,800 | 4,943 | 4,900 | 5,310 | 5,495 | 5,170 | 5,192 | 5,200 |
Malaysia | 1,139 | 920 | 398 | 123 | 5 | 92 | 157 | 140 | 124 | 188 | 122 | 209 | 3,258 |
Suriname | 6.011 | 4,646 | 3,283 | 3,610 | 4,757 | 4,924 | 4,900 | 5230 | 3,104 | 3,236 | 3,400 | 3,000 | 3,000 |
Indonesia | 1,223 | 1,249 | 1,206 | 1,151 | 1,442 | 1,502 | 1,251 | 1400 | 27,400 | 40,600 | 31,400 | 55,700 | 2,600 |
Venezuela | 0 | 0 | 771 | 4,361 | 5,900 | 5,928 | 5,900 | 5,500 | 3.126 | 2,455 | 2,286 | 2,160 | 1,500 |
Greece | 2,292 | 3,286 | 2,496 | 1.991 | 2,495 | 2.163 | 2,220 | 2,220 | 1,902 | 2,300 | 1,816 | 1,849 | 1,900 |
Guyana | 3.211 | 1,844 | 1,424 | 2,471 | 1,648 | 1,558 | 1,600 | 2,098 | 1,083 | 1,818 | 2.210 | 1,649 | 1,600 |
Dominican Republic | 1,086 | 606 | 85 | 0 | 535 | 500 | 500 | 400 | 9 | 0 | 11 | 770 | 1,596 |
Sierra Leone | 449 | 766 | 1,430 | 0 | 0 | 1,072 | 1,169 | 954 | 1,089 | 1,300 | 776 | 616 | 1,161 |
Vietnam | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 26th | 30th | 30th | 30th | 80 | 100 | 100 | 482 | 1,090 |
Saudi Arabia | k. A. | k. A. | k. A. | k. A. | k. A. | k. A. | k. A. | k. A. | k. A. | k. A. | k. A. | k. A. | 879 |
Ghana | 342 | 225 | 381 | 504 | 607 | 842 | 478 | 700 | 595 | 408 | 753 | 827 | 837 |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | 423 | 633 | 595 | 75 | 1,032 | 817 | 867 | 860 | 844 | 708 | 800 | 800 | 800 |
Turkey | 51 | 533 | 773 | 459 | 475 | 771 | 344 | 350 | 1.11 | 1,025 | 541 | 550 | 700 |
Iran | 0 | 0 | 93 | 400 | 438 | 500 | 500 | 500 | 681 | 818 | 898 | 820 | 700 |
Hungary | 2,022 | 2,950 | 2,559 | 1,047 | 511 | 538 | 546 | 550 | 307 | 278 | 255 | 95 | 100 |
Tanzania | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 39 | 30th | 58 | 50 | 50 |
Fiji | k. A. | k. A. | k. A. | k. A. | k. A. | k. A. | k. A. | k. A. | k. A. | 50 | 300 | 460 | 37 |
Pakistan | 0 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 7th | 7th | 8th | 8th | 10 | 10 | 30th | 29 | 30th |
Mozambique | 7th | 0 | 7th | 8th | 10 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 8th | 13 | 10 |
Montenegro | 1,676 | 2,505 | 2,357 | 630 | 672 | 659 | 667 | 672 | 61 | 50 | k. A. | k. A. | k. A. |
France | 3,051 | 1.925 | 490 | 185 | 175 | 160 | 160 | k. A. | k. A. | k. A. | k. A. | k. A. | k. A. |
United States | 2.115 | 1,559 | 495 | 200 | 121 | 361 | 128 | k. A. | k. A. | k. A. | k. A. | k. A. | k. A. |
Haiti | 632 | 312 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | k. A. | k. A. | k. A. | k. A. | k. A. | k. A. |
Italy | 225 | 23 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | k. A. | k. A. | k. A. | k. A. | k. A. | k. A. |
Romania | 304 | 710 | 243 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | k. A. | k. A. | k. A. | k. A. | k. A. | k. A. |
Capacity by company
The company, the country in which the head office is located, the production capacity in millions of tons and the share of global production capacity in percent are listed.
rank | Companies | country | amount | Percentage ownership % |
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1. | Alcoa | United States | 41 | 24 |
2. | Rio Tinto Alcan | Canada | 17th | 10 |
3. | Chalco | People's Republic of China | 12 | 7th |
4th | Rio Tinto aluminum | Australia | 12 | 7th |
5. | BHP Billiton |
Australia United Kingdom |
9 | 5 |
6th | RUSAL | Russia | 9 | 5 |
World funding
The following table shows the world production of bauxite in thousands of tons.
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literature
- Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag: Fischer-Weltalmanach. Figures-data-facts , 1960 ff.
Individual evidence
- ^ US Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries, January 2018
- ^ USGS: Bauxite and Alumina Statistics and Information
- ↑ United Steelworkers: Report to the USW, Aluminum Industry Dynamics, Global Update ( Memento of the original from March 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , October 2005
- ^ USGS : Bauxite and Alumina Statistics and Information