Aluminum Mineral Processing and Metallurgy: IronRich Bauxite and Bayer ...
The bulk of bauxite production is used as feed for the manufacture of alumina via a wet chemical caustic leach process known as the Bayer process . The majority of the alumina produced from this refining process is smelted using the HallHéroult process to produce aluminum metal by electrolytic reduction in a molten bath of natural or ...