656 MINERALS YEARBOOK, 1941

and the Reynolds Metals Co. became the second substantial domestiO producer
of aluminum. The Aluminum Co.'s expansion program was completed in March
1942, and in May 1942 three new Government-owned aluminum plants (under the
first expansion program) had already started operations.
 Recovery of secondary aluminum increased 33 percent in 1941.~ Imports and
exports of crude and semicrude aluminum in 1941 declined 26 and 73 percent,
respectively, compared~ with 1940.
 Production (894,174 long tons) and consumption (1,721,475 long tons) of
bauxite in 1941 increased 104 and 61 percent, respectively, compared with
1940. As with aluminum production, the large output of bauxite in 1941 will
be dwarfed by that of 1942 and 1943. Original plans called for the domestic
production of 1,899,000 tons (1,344,000 of low-silica and 555,000 of high-silica
ore) and the importation of 1,386,000 tons of bauxite in 1942. and the production
of 3,290,000 tons (1,600,000 of low-silica and 1,690,000 of high-silica ore)
and the importation of 1,800,000 tons of bauxite in 1943. .Enemy submarines
began sinking South American bauxite cargoes destined to aluminum plants
in the United States and Canada in the spring of 1942, which probablywill
necessitate an "all-out" domestic mining program and greatly increase the
bauxite-production goals set above (possibly to 6,000,000 tons or more) for
Arkansas and other Southern States. Owing to the shipping crisis, an allocation
order was issued July 7, 1942, effective August 1, 1942, to conserve and
direct the distribution of bauxite and alumina. It is estimated that domestic
consumption of bauxite will reach about 2,600,000 tons in 1942 and 5,100,000
tons or more in 1943.
 In 1941 imports of bauxite (1,116,546 long tons, 88 percent of which came
from Surinarn) exceeded those in 1940 by 77 percent. Exports (dried equivalent)
rose 82 percent. Of the domestic and foreign bauxite consumed, the aluminum
industry used 69 percent; chemical, 17 percent; abrasive, 12 percent; and
other industries, 2 percent. CoIr pared with 1940, the aluminum industry
increased its consumption of bauxite approximately 82 percent, and the abrasive
and chemical industries each used better than 60 percent more ore. Domestic
output was equivalent to 36 percent and imports to 64 percent of the total
ore consumed. Shipments from Arkansas mines comprised 91 percent of the total
domestic production, and output in Georgia, Alabama, and Virginia rose substantially
above that of 1940. Although the minimum quoted price for domestic bauxite
advanced 17 percent, the average value actually received for all grades of
ore shipped was only slightly above that for 1940.
 World. production of bauxite is believed to have increased 36 percent and
of aluminum 40 percent in 1941. Axis and Allied production of aluminum was
"neck and neck" in 1941, but in 1942 and 1943 United Nations output is expected
to greatly exceed that of the Axis.