Berthier, les Baux et l'histoire de la bauxite ResearchGate. The discovery of 1031-01 about 175 years ago Bauxite is the principal ore of metallic aluminium, whose denomination comes from the Baux-de Provence, a famous tourist site in France The discovery, almost unnoticed at that time, resulted in systematic prospection on all the continents, 1 century later.
