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A study of bauxite

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

T. V. M. Rao*
Affiliation:
Imperial College of Science and Technology, London

Extract

Bauxite is of twofold interest due firstly to its economic importance, and secondly to the scope it affords for scientific investigation. When these two reasons are taken into consideration, one can easily account for the enormous and rapid accumulation of literature concerning this subject. Any attempt to give a detailed account of the literature will only mean unnecessary repetition of what has been already dealt with at great length by several writers, of whom Anderson and Fox may be specially mentioned. The relation between bauxite and laterite is so intimate that a detailed study of the one is impossible without any reference to the other, and as such the description of and frequent reference to the latter should not be considered as any digression from the subject.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1928

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