As early as 1914 Tvonica Karbida I Ferolegura Dalmacija owned a
ferrochromium smelter in
Dugi Rat.
The
Boris Kidric
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aluminum smelter at
Sibenik was completely destroyed as a result of the
war for independence that erupted in 1991.
History
The town of
Rude in the
Samoborska Gora Mountains was a source of
copper as early as the 16th century. In fact, its copper production at the time "was twice the amount of the total copper production in England and four times that of Norway, reaching one third of the production of the famous Swedish mine in
Falun."
[
There was a metallic ore mine in Zrinski.][
Kraševi Zviri was the site of a zinc mine.][
Trgovska Gora is "a mining area highly significant in Croatian history".][
Pyritised bauxites were mined in ]Istria
Istria ( ; Croatian language, Croatian and Slovene language, Slovene: ; ist, Eîstria; Istro-Romanian language, Istro-Romanian, Italian language, Italian and Venetian language, Venetian: ; formerly in Latin and in Ancient Greek) is the larges ...
's Mirna valley
MicroRNA (miRNA) are small, single-stranded, non-coding RNA molecules containing 21 to 23 nucleotides. Found in plants, animals and some viruses, miRNAs are involved in RNA silencing and post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression. miRN ...
at Minjera from the 16th century, in order to obtain vitriol and alum
An alum () is a type of chemical compound, usually a hydrated double salt, double sulfate salt (chemistry), salt of aluminium with the general chemical formula, formula , where is a valence (chemistry), monovalent cation such as potassium or a ...
.sulfur
Sulfur (or sulphur in British English) is a chemical element with the symbol S and atomic number 16. It is abundant, multivalent and nonmetallic. Under normal conditions, sulfur atoms form cyclic octatomic molecules with a chemical formula ...
mine in Radoboj.[
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References
Mining in Croatia
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