Liubija iron ore deposits
The iron ore deposits of Ljubija are a deposit of Paleozoic siderite - barite - polysulphide ores in the Dinarides in what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina . It extends over 1,200 km² in the vicinity of Prijedor .
history
The mining began in the time before the birth of Christ by the Phoenicians and Illyrians . Due to the shortage of iron ore during World War I, Austria-Hungary built an 18 km long narrow-gauge railway and began mining in the first modern mine in Ljubija in 1916 . The Tomašica mine was opened in 1967 and the Omarska mine in 1985 . Operations had to be stopped in 1992 due to the Bosnian War . In 2004, LNM (now ArcelorMittal ) bought the mines and resumed production in Omarska. The iron ore concentrate is supplied to the ArcelorMittal steelworks in Eastern Europe.
More than 80 million tons of ore have been mined since 1916.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ladislav Palinkaš, Sibila Borojević Šoštarić, Sabina Strmić Palinkaš, Walter Prochaska, Zoltan Pécskay, Franz Neubauer, Jorge E. Spangenberg: The Ljubija geothermal field: A herald of the Pangea break-up (NW Bosnia and Herzegovina) . In: Geologia Croatica . tape 69 , no. 1 , 2016, p. 3–30 , doi : 10.4154 / GC.2016.02 .
- ^ Koechlin, R. Mineralogisch-petrographische Mitteilungen (1922) 35: 1. doi: 10.1007 / BF02993650
- ↑ a b arcelormittalprijedor.net: History ( Memento of the original from September 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
