As bauxitas brasileiras e o tratamento dado ao minério de Juruti (PA)

Abstract

This work has the purpose of studying and knowing in a summarized way the main occurrences of bauxite in Brazil and its most important characteristics, as some of the mineral formation processes, location of the largest deposits in operation thus seeking a better knowledge of this ore essential for the production of alumina, metallic aluminum and the various other products chemicals from this production chain. This work aims to know where each one of the occurrences of bauxite in explored, which city has mines and its location within the country. It also seeks a better understanding of the characteristics of bauxite from the municipality of Juruti in western Pará, which has a of the largest high-quality bauxite reserves in the world, where the mining company north American Alcoa World Alumina operates a bauxite mine that has operations from, mining, processing, transportation by own railroad and ore loading at the port on the Amazon River with great annual production of this ore. We will study the mineral occurrence of the municipality the mining method use by the mining company and the treatment given to the ore before its export to national and international markets.