EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING OF MINERALS (IN YUGOSLAVIA IN LATE 1930s AND 1960s)
EXTRACTION AND PROCESSING OF MINERALS (IN YUGOSLAVIA IN LATE 1930s AND 1960s)

Summary/Abstract: Mineral wealth has played an important part in Yugoslavia’s economic development. Enterprises engaged in the extraction of power-generating raw materials have in recent years accounted for about 25 per cent of the productive fixed assets of, and contributed about 16 per cent of income generated by, mining and industry. In the postwar period extraction of major minerals has recorded substantial gains over the prewar level, notably: output of coal has increased 4 times, of iron 5.5 times, copper ore 9.6, lead and zinc ore 4, bauxite 3, zinc 13 and aluminium ingots 27 times. Output of crude oil, production of which only started after the war, has increased many times over. (Table I).

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