Bauxite mining in Indonesia Wikipedia
Bauxite deposits in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, 1986 USGS map Bauxite was first discovered in modern Indonesia in the Riau Islands in 1924, under the Dutch East Indies administration. Production commenced in the 1930s, with the volume of ore mined between 1936 and 1960 being between 100 and 400 thousand tonnes, rising to 900,000 tonnes by 1967 and averaging over 1 million