Material
Bauxite
The aluminium ore from whose processing most of the world's primary gallium is recovered as a byproduct. The U.S. Geological Survey reports the average gallium content of bauxite as 50 parts per million — a concentration at which gallium is never the reason the rock is mined.
Classification
- material class
- ORE_FEED
- physical form
- SOLID
In the knowledge graph
- Bauxite feeds production of Low-purity primary gallium
Record last updated 2026-09-11. Corrections follow the published corrections policy; superseded claims are retained, never silently edited.