Guide to bauxite, alumina and aluminium what you need to ...
Jan 07, 2018· Step 1 – bauxite to alumina. The Bayer process is most commonly used to refine alumina from bauxite. Bauxite is crushed and screened, and dissolved with caustic soda under high pressure in a digester. Alumina is precipitated from the solution by cooling and using seed crystals.