FOUR CENTURIES OF BAUXITE MINING
Journal Title: UNKNOWN - Year 1993, Vol 5, Issue 1
Abstract
In the paper the results of many years of archival and field investigations in the history of bauxite mining of the three authors are presented. It was established that in Istria in the valley of the river Mirna beneath the Castle of Sovinjak bauxite was exploited already 400 years ago, and that 1808 about this ore the first scientific account was published. Accordingly, the statements in the professional literature that the first bauxite mine opened 1873 in the French Provence and that the bauxite ore for the first time was scientifically described 1821 have to be revised. About this necessary revision here the essential proofs are produced.
Authors and Affiliations
Rikard Marušić Krešimir Sakač Slavko Vujec
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