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Title: THE WORLD'S OLDEST BAUXITE MINING
- Authors:
- Marušić, Rikard (29232)
- Sakač, Krešimir
- Vujec, Slavko
Journal: Travaux ICSOBA
Number: 24
ISSN: 0350-7548
Volume: 22
Year: 1995
Pages: from 81 to 98
Number of references: 23
Language: engleski
Summary: Bauxite is nowadays regarded almost exclusively just as
raw-material for the aluminium industry. Yet, there the fact is ignored
that bauxite is very complex ore, with often more than ten minerals in its
composition, almost each of several weight-percents, and with more than
forty chemical elements altogether. No wonder that as yet in some
economic-geology publications of this century even bauxite is considered as
an iron ore. However, there are no reports that bauxite has been exploited
as such a commodity. But it has been exploited as a sulfur ore, i.e. its
pyritic varietetes, for the winning of alum. Alum has been won long ago,
from various raw materials and by various procedures, but so far it has
been practically unknown that in Istria it was won from bauxite for
centuries, at least from the 16th century on. That means, among other
things, that in all probability bauxite mining has not begun 1873 at
Villeveyrac in Languedoc but in Istria, 300 years earlier. About that some
details are given in this paper.
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