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| | Aluminium chemicals |
 | | Alumina (aluminium oxide, or Al) is a white powder produced from bauxite ores (iron alumino silicate). |
 | | Comalco is considering a 1 million tonne alumina operation for Gladstone, drawing on bauxite from Weipa deposits and using the alumina for its smelters at Boyne Island, Qld, Bell Bay Tasmania and at Tiwai Point, New Zealand. |
 | | Hydrated alumina is available from Alcoa, cheap high quality silica is also available, and from the perspective of Coogee Chemicals as a manufacturer, it would use their sodium silicate, sodium aluminates, aluminium hydroxides and caustic soda. |
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