foreign sources of bauxite principally from Jamaica (55%) of imports), Surinam, Guyana, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Guinea. The world-wide commercial reserves of bauxite total 26,880 million long tons, which represent a 320 year supply at the 1978 production level of 84 million tons. Estimated cumulative demand for bauxite by the year 2000 is still only 13% of current commercial reserves.
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