Mineral Resources of Georgia and Caucasia: Manganese Industry of Georgia

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G. Allen & Unwin, 1919 - 182 páginas
 

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Página 7 - The returns of shipping of all nationalities which entered and cleared in the foreign trade of the port of Batum from 1893 to 1914 are : The traffic of the port of Batum is therefore considerable.
Página 91 - Was known in antiquity, as a bath hewn in the rock has been discovered, dating from the time of the Argonauts. Kursebi, 8 miles from Kutais, Georgia, on the railway to Tkvibuli, possesses a cold alkaline sulphurous source, used locally against rheumatism and skin diseases. Khressili, in the neighbourhood of Kursebi, and with a similar spring, used in the same manner. Utsera, 24 miles from Kutais, on the left bank of the River Rion, and 3,420 feet above sea level ; contains eleven alkaline sources,...
Página 31 - ... so that a further zigzag road about 6 miles long and adapted for wheel traffic had to be constructed. The transport of the ore from the mine down to the works is, however, effected by an aerial ropeway of about 2£ miles in length. The mine is said to have been worked in prehistoric times...
Página 116 - Prov. Batum, Dist. Artvin, Georgia, at altitude 6,250 ft. ; a chemically neutral spring, of temp. 33° C. 274. Oshora, Prov. Tiflis, Dist. Akhaltzik, Georgia ; a carbonated spring. 275. Panakethi, same District, on the left bank of the Kura River ; a mineral source of unknown composition. 276.
Página 111 - Prov. Elizabetpol, Dist. Sangesur ; a warm mineral spring, composition unknown. 209. Krasna Poliana, on the River Mzimta, near Sotchi, Black Sea Prov., 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, Prov. Kutais, Dist. Radja, Georgia ; several warm sources of carbonated water....
Página 113 - Lake ; twelve cold springs, ferruginous and strongly carbonated. 232. Likoki, Prov. Tiflis, Dist. Thionethi, Georgia ; a cold carbonated source. 233. Lonjin, Prov. Terek, Dist. Sunja ; a cold ferruginous spring. 234. Lopota, Prov. Tiflis, Dist. Telaw, Georgia ; a cold mineral spring of unknown composition. 235. Luspek, Prov. Kars, Dist. Kagisman ; a ferruginous spring. 236. Lissogorsk, Prov. Terek, Dist. Piatigorsk ; a bitter saline source which has been capted and is being used in the establishments...
Página 88 - ... efficacy against anaemia and neurasthenia. They are used for baths and for drinking, and before the war they were also bottled and shipped abroad with such good success that the bottling establishment had to be enlarged. 3. Near the village Libani, about 6 miles from Borjom, at approximate altitude...
Página 153 - The war, of course, upset all these values, and while, for instance, Brazilian ore cost 9d. per unit cif USA in the beginning of 1914, it had to be paid 2s. 4d. per unit in 1915, and up to 4s. in May 1917. A detailed picture of the Georgian Export Trade in manganese ore is given by the following Tables Nos. XIV to XVIII.
Página 133 - The ore is pyrolusite, partly of crystalline fibrous structure of somewhat greyish-black metallic lustre, partly amorphous of dull black or brownish-black aspect. It forms compact and rather hard masses in the continuous beds, and also occurs in granular (oolitic) form mixed with the sandstone, or in more friable masses mixed with the strata of sand and clay. The following analyses show the great purity of the ore and the almost total absence of obnoxious elements. TABLE I.
Página 129 - English engineer who proposed to supply the greater part of Caucasia with electrical current from two generating stations of large dimensions, one of them situated near the Kasbek Mountain and the other in the south near Lake Gokcha, for which purpose concessions were granted to him in 1912. The Kasbek...

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