Aluminium (Al) nikintu cyinshi cyane mubyuma mubutaka bwisi. Hamwe na ogisijeni na hydrogène, ikora bauxite, niyo aluminium ikoreshwa cyane mu bucukuzi bw'amabuye y'agaciro. Itandukanyirizo rya mbere rya aluminium chloride na aluminium metallic ryabaye mu 1829, ariko umusaruro wubucuruzi ntiwatangiye kugeza mu 1886. Aluminium nicyuma cyera cya silver, gikomeye, cyoroshye kandi gifite uburemere bwihariye bwa 2.7. Numuyoboro mwiza wamashanyarazi kandi urwanya ruswa cyane. Bitewe nibi biranga, byahindutse icyuma cyingenzi.Aluminiyumuifite imbaraga zihuza imbaraga bityo ikoreshwa mubikorwa bitandukanye.

 
Umusaruro wa alumina utwara 90% byumusaruro wa bauxite kwisi. Ibisigaye bikoreshwa mu nganda nka abrasives, ibikoresho bivunika, hamwe n’imiti. Bauxite ikoreshwa kandi mugukora sima ya alumina yo hejuru, nkumukozi ugumana amazi cyangwa nkumusemburo winganda zikomoka kuri peteroli kugirango utwikire inkoni zo gusudira nudusoko, kandi nkibintu byo gukora ibyuma na ferroalloys.

Imikoreshereze ya aluminiyumu irimo ibikoresho by'amashanyarazi, imodoka, amato, gukora indege, gutunganya ibyuma bya chimique na chimique, kubaka uruganda n’inganda, gupakira (fayili ya aluminium, amabati), ibikoresho byo mu gikoni (ibikoresho byo mu meza, inkono).

 
Inganda za aluminiyumu zatangije iterambere ry’ikoranabuhanga mu gutunganya ibikoresho birimo aluminiyumu kandi rishyiraho ikigo cyacyo cyo gukusanya. Imwe mumpamvu nyamukuru zitera inganda zagiye zigabanuka mukoresha ingufu, zitanga toni imwe ya aluminiyumu irenga toni imwe ya aluminiyumu yibanze. Ibi birimo kwerekana 95% ya aluminium ivuye muri bauxite kugirango ibike ingufu. Buri toni ya aluminiyumu yongeye gukoreshwa nayo isobanura kuzigama toni zirindwi za bauxite. Muri Ositaraliya, 10% by'umusaruro wa aluminium ukomoka ku bikoresho bitunganijwe neza.