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About Bauxite
Situated inside Central Arkansas, the town is named for bauxite, the source metal for aluminum, which was found in rich amounts in the territory and turned into a wellspring of aluminum refining. The town's populace blasted amid extended aluminum generation amid World War II and shrank quickly with yield of the mineral. Bauxite was consolidated as a town in 1973.
The metal for which the town is named was found in the territory in the mid 1890s and mined by the General Bauxite Company until 1905, when the Pittsburgh Reduction Company, a northeastern aluminum refining organization, obtained immense tracts of land in Saline County subsequent to learning of the superb mineral that was being transported from the region.
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