THE IMPACT OF CLIMATIC CONDITIONS AND CLIMATE CHANGE ON THE EXPLORATION, MINING, PROCESSING, AND USE OF BAUXITE ORE IN VIET NAM

Abstract

In this paper, the climatic data of 25 observation stations in the 1981-2018 period were used to access the impact of climatic conditions and climate change on the exploration, mining, processing, and use of bauxite ore in Viet Nam. These impacts have been affecting strongly on the bauxite mining in Viet Nam. Particularly, the impact of sunshine, temperature, and rainfall show significantly in the southern mines. By the early 21^st century, the temperature and precipitation are likely to increase across all bauxite mines; the number of warm months is projected to increase meanwhile the number of cold months is projected in vice versa; the number of high rainfall months in the northern mines and the number of extremely high rainfall months in the southern mines also tend to increase that taking a toll on the bauxite industry in Viet Nam.