The red color in bauxite is due to the presence of iron oxide impurities, such as hematite or goethite. These impurities can give bauxite a reddish-brown hue, which can vary depending on the specific mineral composition and concentration of iron oxide in the bauxite ore.
Bauxite's chemical formula ends with Oxygen, (Al2O32H2O) making it an oxide.
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== As a rock, bauxite is not listed on the Mohs mineral hardness scale.
bauxite is made for mineral used to make aluminum.The Aluminium ore is known as Bauxite (Al2O3).
Bauxite, a rock and the main ore of aluminum, does not have a number on the Mohs scale of relative mineral hardness because it is not a mineral, but a combination of minerals.
Bauxite is not manufactured. It is a mineral found in the ground and is the primary source of Aluminum which is one of the elements that Bauxite is made of.
It is the ore of Aluminium.
dull to earthy
It is the state mineral
gold, diamond, bauxite
Bauxite is a non-metallic mineral. It is the primary ore used to produce aluminum.