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You will find a detailed explanation of the extraction of aluminium and some
notes on recycling it on this Chemguide page.
Important: In an exam answer, you wouldn't get any credit for saying that
"It is cheaper to recycle aluminium than to produce it from the ore." It is too
vague. You would have to explain why it was cheaper, in terms of recycling
not needing as much expensive energy.
If you just try to balance this by playing around with the numbers, you will
probably still be there an hour later, and still won't have got it right. You have
to split these complicated redox equations into the two half-equations, and
then combine them.