... Figure 1(a) and (b), depicts the rate of red mud production as well as cumulative inventory trend for the years 1950years -2000years and 2001years -2018 represents the global red mud management trend Table 2. Summary of global alumina production during 2008-2017 (thousand metric tons), adapted from U.S. Geological Survey (2015,2016,2017,2019) and Bray (2016Bray ( , 2018. Country 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Australia 19,321 19,948 19,956 19,399 21,357 21,528 20,474 20,097 20,681 20,486 Azerbaijan 165 80 -6 102 -----Bosnia and Herzegovina 294 192 269 262 202 176 171 251 188 180 Brazil 7,822 8,618 9,433 10,306 10,321 9,942 10,404 10,452 10,886 10,900 Canada 1,370 1,125 1,301 1,471 1,498 1,555 1,563 1,561 1,567 1,570 China 22,800 23,800 29,000 34,100 37,700 47,000 51,300 58,978 60,907 69,017 France 630 348 481 524 430 315 300 300 300 300 Germany 1,395 1,154 1,485 2,355 2,331 2,244 1,910 1,910 1,900 1,900 Greece 772 719 725 810 784 812 814 807 821 810 Guinea 593 530 597 574 150 ---- 3. Advantages and weaknesses of the existing red mud disposal/management process (Evans, 2016;Greg Power & Klauber, 2009;Power et al., 2009Power et al., , 2011 (Abdulvaliyev et al., 2015;Evans, 2016;Khairul et al., 2019;Lu et al., 2018;Power et al., 2011;Ujaczki et al., 2019). ...