IM23: : Looking for growth in the downturn

• Autores: Industrial Minerals
• Localización: Industrial Minerals, ISSN 0019-8544, Nº. 585, 2016 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Julio/Agosto)
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • "The Czech Republic has a long history of mining, mainly gold and silver, but also industries like Czech glass and porcelain are well-known and built on the resources of industrial minerals," [Pavel Kavina] outlined.

    Production of feldspar and silica sand has stabilised meanwhile at 400,000-450,000 tonnes and 1.3m tonnes respectively. Other important resources include carbornates, with the Czech Republic producing 4.5m tonnes high purity limestone and 5-6m tonnes other carbonates and dolomite and diatomite, which was produced at a rate of 30,000-40,000 tonnes.

    Although the country hosts 14.2m tonnes of geological reserves and 1.1m tonnes exploitable resources of graphite, no graphite has been produced for the last seven years, instead 5,000 tonnes have been imported. While Kavina described Czech graphite reserves as limited, he said that there were "promising resources"