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The Bayer Process to Get Aluminum From Bauxite

There's this process to get aluminum from bauxite and it's called the bayer process. As a an offshoot of this process they have to store the red mud that has all kinds of awful stuff in it like cadmium and heavy metals. This is going into the holding ponds to settle out and separate so yeah what are your thoughts on that? i think it's b a u x i t e so you can be bauxite i don't know that bauxite okay i got it i'm with you there's this process  to get aluminum from Bauxite but as it pulls the aluminum out you also get all this nasty nasty byproducts that has all

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