Mineral Resources of Georgia and Caucasia: Manganese Industry of GeorgiaG. Allen & Unwin, 1919 - 182 páginas |
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Mineral Resources of Georgia and Caucasia: Manganese Industry of Georgia David Ghambashidze Visualização integral - 1919 |
Mineral Resources of Georgia and Caucasia: Manganese Industry of Georgia David Ghambashidze Visualização integral - 1919 |
Mineral Resources of Georgia and Caucasia: Manganese Industry of Georgia David Ghambashidze Visualização integral - 1919 |
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Akhalkalaki Akhaltzik Alagir Alaverdi alkaline source alkaline-saline altitude Artvin Baku Batum beds Black Sea Black Sea Prov Borjom Caspian Sea Caucasia cent chalcopyrite cold alkaline cold carbonated source cold carbonated spring cold ferruginous cold sulphurous source cold sulphurous spring containing copper Daghestan deposits Dist district Elizabetpol Erivan exist exploitation export extracted feet ferro-manganese ferruginous and carbonated ferruginous source ferruginous spring formed galleries Georgia Georgian manganese Gori Grozny hot sulphurous sources important inches iron pyrites Kars Kuban Kutais Kvirila Kvirila River limestone main chain manganese manganese industry miles from Batum mineral source mineral springs mines mountain naphtha occurs outcrops phurous Piatigorsk places porphyry port Poti principal produced Prov Province pyrolusite quantities quartz railway Ratcha River Russia saline spring sandstone sea baths Sharopan Silica smelter Sotchi Station Sukhum Tchiaturi Tchorokh Valley temp tenour Terek thickness Thionethi Tiflis tons transport veins village Vladicaucase warm sulphurous source yards zinc
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Página 7 - The returns of the shipping of all nationalities which entered and cleared in the foreign trade of the port of Poti (during the same period) are: This shipping was exclusively devoted to the export of manganese ore.
Página 121 - Peninsula ; 5 groups of mud volcanoes, from 20 to 30 in each group; much frequented sea baths, but the muds are not used. 336. Terter, Prov.
Página 25 - Their average thickness is about 42 feet, but the largest one-encountered so far was 36 feet thick, 120 feet wide, and 600 feet long. The ore is chalcopyrite and some purple ore, mixed with iron pyrites, and its tenor varies between 3.6 and about 10 per cent ; it also contains about 4 shillings' worth of gold and silver per ton. The capacity of the smelter is 160 tons of 5 per cent ore per day. The mine produced in 1908, 1,871 tons, and in 1913, 3,735 tons of copper, the average cost being about...
Página 77 - ... quantities. The quality seems about the same as on the Suram, the carbon contents being from 50 to 60 per cent. It is used locally in foundries, and also for paints. DISTRIBUTION. As Russia herself forms an enormous market, most of the mineral and metallurgical products of Caucasia were before the war sold in that country, the exports being principally confined to manganese ore and part of the petroleum production.
Página 57 - Government advanced the enterprise about £30,000 in order to improve the working plant and to erect the patent fuel factory. Nevertheless, these collieries are quite insufficient for supplying the needs of Georgia alone, and several times there has been great scarcity of coal, with exorbitant prices, when the supply from the Don district was interrupted by ice in the Sea of Azoff. The output of Tkvibul during recent years was the following : 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 Tons.
Página 138 - The question of transport has, perhaps with the exception of the last few years, always been the greatest difficulty with which the Georgian manganese industry had to contend. The extraction and dressing of the ore are comparatively easy and cheap, but the transport from the mines to the seaports, which was under the control of the State, was by the latter made into a source of great and excessive profit, while a less rapacious policy was the obvious duty of the former Russian Government, in order...
Página 39 - ... in a very primitive state until 1904, when the first modern installation arose at Barabatum. The Synik mine is situated at a distance of 2 miles only from the latter place, and belongs now to the Societe Industrielle et Metallurgique du Caucase which also works Alaverdi. The mine contains some 20 different veins, from 7 inches to 4 feet wide, containing" chalcopyrite and some purple ore in quartz gangue, also a small proportion of precious metals. A great deal of money has been spent on this...
Página 149 - ... closing of the ^Dardanelles made an end to the prospects as well as to the difficulties. The ups and down of the export trade are reflected in the stocks of ore lying at Tchiaturi. While at the end of 1902 they amounted to 240,000 tons, they rose to 323,000 tons in 1903 and 1904; to 1,130,000 tons in 1906, being over 1,000,000 in 1907. The heavy shipments of 1912 reduced them to 645,000 tons, and in the following year even to about 400,000 tons. In 1914 the output of the mines fully covered the...
Página 111 - Province of Elizabetpol, district of Sangesur; a warm mineral spring, composition unknown. 209. Krasna Poliana, on the River Mzimta, near Sotchi, Black Sea Province, Georgia ; mountain resort, with some hotels and accommodation for special cures. Alkaline-saline and ferruginous carbonated springs, some of them tasting like Vichy water. 210. Kuapta, near Artvin, Georgia ; a ferruginous carbonated spring of bitter taste. 211. Kudara, Province of Kutais, district of Radja, Georgia; several warm sources...
Página 70 - The stone itself is transparent, with wavy lines or bands of all shades of grey, green, blue, pink and brown, producing very pretty effects. Blocks can be extracted up to 5 feet in length and 3 feet wide ; large slabs are used for mural decoration, smaller ones are cut up for clock cases, paper weights, etc., but there is no work done in the quarry at present. Another deposit...