Human Health Risk Assessment for Aluminium, Aluminium Oxide, and ...
Bauxite is made up primarily of one or more aluminium hydroxide minerals together with various mixtures of silica, iron oxide, titania, aluminium silicates, and other impurities in minor or trace amounts. The commercial sources of bauxite consist mainly of gibbsite or boehmite. Bauxite is extracted by opencast mining (Dinman, 1983; IPCS, 1997 ...