Bauxite main content.

Bauxite

Part of David S. and Ruth L. Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth.

Bauxite_HERO

Exhibition Text

Bauxite forms in tropical environments where warm groundwater leaches and dissolves nearly everything out of the rocks except for aluminum and silicon. This sample formed about 65 million years ago, when old granites were chemically weathered.

Provided by BAUXILUM Mining, Venezuela

For Educators