When aluminum ore was discovered in Australia, it was estimated it could produce 1 million tons of metal annually for the entire world. Now it could be worth $6.4 trillion in 2020.
The United States has been mining aluminum ore since the mid-1800s.At one point, the US had an estimated 12 million tons.That’s less than half the amount of aluminum mined by China today, which is about 50 times more.That made the prospect of mining aluminum all the more enticing.But in the mid 2000s, there was a […]