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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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For example, 80 percent of our tin and 75 percent of our bauxite come from the Third World.
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Got a fair bauxite strike and some low-grade iron ore, but it's standard.
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It has three distinct stages of processing - bauxite mining, alumina refining and ingot smelting.
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Sugar production fell to a record low of 129,920 tonnes in 1990 and bauxite production was 15 percent below target.
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The Columbia River was a traffic jam of barges carrying bauxite to the smelters in Longview, Washington.
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The operating conditions make short-term or spot contracts highly risky; stockpiling is uneconomic, because bauxite has few alternative uses.
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The production of aluminium from bauxite requires about 20 times more energy than does scrap aluminium.
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Tropical forests are also destroyed to make way for the hydro-electric plants to smelt bauxite - used in aluminum cans.