Bauxite supply in a changing market

Abstract

This article examines some of the endogenous and industry-specific factors that affect production, supply, demand, costs and prices as they affect bauxite supply. At the outset, however, it will depart from the normal approach and instead, focus on recent international political and economic changes which are likely to profoundly alter some of the fundamental underpinnings of the markets for metals and the world economic system generally.