Every can, plane wing, or foil sheet starts its journey as bauxite, but it’s the sinister leftover, red mud, that’s raising alarm bells around the world. What happens to all this toxic waste?

JOHANNESBURG — Red bauxite powder mined by Guinea’s biggest producer — flowing past a mangrove swamp on a conveyor belt and plunging through a giant funnel into the Rio Tamara ship — has ...

The so-called "red mud" is a waste byproduct from decades of processing red bauxite ore at the former Ormet and Almatis facility into alumina, a precursor material used to make aluminum.

Red mud, the highly alkaline by‐product of the Bayer process for alumina extraction from bauxite, poses significant environmental and economic challenges due to its vast global accumulation.

Residents, some as far as 5 miles from the plant, periodically find their property and vehicles covered in a layer of red bauxite dust or white powder from the making of alumina. Elevated ...

22. Contained with levees, the sometimes slushy red mud is filled with the spent tailings from bauxite ore processing and is laced with trace amounts of heavy metals and radioactive particles.

Two people were trapped under rubble after a collapse at a Bauxite mine belonging to Russian metals producer Rusal in the Ural mountains village of Cheryomukhovo, Interfax reported on Wednesday, ...

Trucks transport bauxite on a red-dirt mining road in the Boké region. The entrance to a mining port run by the SMB mining company not far from the village of Dapilon. On the red-dirt road ...