The world's largest untapped resource is a waste product
The largest industrial waste stream almost no one is solving
Refining bauxite into aluminium leaves behind a caustic red slurry known as red mud. Stored in vast impoundments, it requires long-term management and has resisted previous attempts at commercially viable recovery. As the volume continues to grow, the valuable minerals it contains remain locked away.
>4 Billion t
More than 4 billion tonnes of red mud are already stored worldwide
~150 Mt / yr
Approximately 150 Mt per year of new red mud is generated—and the volume continues to rise
pH 10–13
Highly alkaline, creating significant risks to soil and water
Every dot is a liability. Every dot is an orebody.
Red mud accumulates wherever alumina is refined. More than four billion tonnes are already stored worldwide, with roughly 150 million tonnes added each year. Yet these same deposits—while posing long-term risks to land and water—contain valuable iron, alkali, and the critical minerals the West is urgently seeking to secure.
The waste and the shortage are the same problem.
The elements the energy transition is short of — scandium, gallium, rare earths — are sitting in the residue we already dug up. NeoXir treats the liability as the deposit.
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