We claim: 1. In a Bayer process for producing alumina from bauxite which comprises (a) pressure digesting bauxite slurry in caustic soda solution to dissolve aluminum hydroxides in the bauxite as sodium aluminate while leaving most of the remaining constituents of the bauxite in solid form as red mud, (b) separating the red mud from the digested slurry to obtain a causticaluminate pregnant ...