Red ore trade shines on

摘要

If there's one area of the global economy that has demonstrated the sheer draw and influence of China's economic take-off -even as it readjusts to slower growth - it is the trade in bauxite ore. Global demand is rising by the year for the red ore needed to make the aluminium that is found in all manner of appliances and structures in modern China and elsewhere. The estimated 28 Bt of world reserves of bauxite are found far and wide - but mainly in the tropics - from the Caribbean and West Africa to the Malaysian and Queensland peninsulas.