bauxite

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• The country was running chronic trade deficits that were covered by an inflow of investment in the bauxite and tourism sectors.

  Academic text (1992)

• In that year, the country exported 12 million tons of bauxite, some of it in the processed form of alumina.

  Academic text (1992)

• In particular, the window of opportunity opened by the bauxite levy was missed.

  Academic text (1992)

• More cities, more roads, and more infrastructure will mean more steel, more copper, and more bauxite.

  Academic text (2010)

• Not much, except there's a bauxite mine there.

  Dr. No (1962)

• Coal is the most important resource, followed by copper, lead and bauxite.

  The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (2002)

• Thus, the Caribbean bauxite industry managed to attract large sums of investment.

  Academic text (1992)

• Of course, the Seaga government's bauxite policy was hardly consistent with its free enterprise rhetoric.

  Academic text (1992)

• Mining bauxite is very damaging, and producing aluminum requires an enormous amount of energy.

  Academic text (1995)

• The bauxite/alumina sector declined in importance as a foreign exchange earner relative to tourism and export manufacturing.

  Academic text (1992)

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