Domestic aluminum resources: dilemmas of development

Technical Report · Thu Jul 17 00:00:00 EDT 1980

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5226271· OSTI ID:5226271

Staats, E. B.

Concerns about supply disruptions and price gouging that could endanger aluminum production in the United States have spurred research in this country on processes to manufacture aluminum from ores other than bauxite. The United States has no large bauxite deposits but it has plentiful resources of other aluminum ores if the technology can be developed to use them economically. Sources of aluminium include alunite, anorthosite, dawsonite, and clay/acid. Miniplants for clay/nitric acid and clay/hydrochloric acid, gas-induced crystallization have been constructed.

• Research Organization: General Accounting Office (GAO), Washington, DC (United States)
• OSTI ID: 5226271
• Report Number(s): EMD-80-63(Vol.1)
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Report to the Congress by the Comptroller General of the United States
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
29 ENERGY PLANNING
POLICY AND ECONOMY
ALUMINIUM
PRODUCTION
ALUMINIUM ORES
ALUNITE
ANORTHOSITES
BAUXITE
CLAYS
CRYSTALLIZATION
DAWSONITE
HYDROCHLORIC ACID
NITRIC ACID
ALKALI METAL COMPOUNDS
ALUMINIUM COMPOUNDS
ALUMINIUM SULFATES
CARBON COMPOUNDS
CARBONATES
ELEMENTS
GABBROS
HYDROGEN COMPOUNDS
HYDROXIDES
IGNEOUS ROCKS
INORGANIC ACIDS
METALS
MINERALS
ORES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS
PLUTONIC ROCKS
POTASSIUM COMPOUNDS
POTASSIUM SULFATES
ROCKS
SODIUM COMPOUNDS
SODIUM MINERALS
SULFATES
SULFUR COMPOUNDS
360101* - Metals & Alloys- Preparation & Fabrication
290400 - Energy Planning & Policy- Energy Resources