Red mud, also known as bauxite residue, is a thick, caustic slurry left over after extracting aluminum from bauxite. Its vivid color comes from iron oxides, but its real threat lies in its chemistry.

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The so-called "red mud" is a waste byproduct from decades of processing red bauxite ore at the former Ormet and Almatis facility into alumina, a precursor material used to make aluminum.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. A global rush for bauxite, the ore of aluminum, is underway led by Chinese and U.S. companies. In the South American country ...

Red mud is born from bauxite ore. When alumina is separated from the ore, red mud is left behind. One of red mud’s most abundant components is iron oxide, which, when it reacts with carbon ...

Red mud is a toxic byproduct of the industrial process that refines bauxite, raw aluminum ore, into aluminum oxide, or alumina. (Alumina is put through a separate process, electrolysis, to make ...

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Bauxite mining has become a controversial political issue in Malaysia. As the government implements a temporary ban on extracting the aluminium ore, BBC South-East Asia correspondent Jonathan Head ...