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IT is announced by “Russia Today” Press Service that large molybdenum and tungsten works have been opened recently in Kabardino-Balkaria, in the Caucasian mountains. The plant is situated at the foot of Mount Tyrny-Auz. Soviet geologists began to prospect for ores on this mountain in 1934. At an altitude of 9,850 ft. they discovered large deposits of rich molybdenum and tungsten ores. Owing to the situation of the Tyrny-Auz deposits, however, the extraction of the ores has presented a difficult problem, and local weather is severe. Everything about the workings is mechanized. The ore, which is extracted by means of electric drills, is brought away from the face by electric trains, sent to the surface by conveyer belt and lowered to the works at the foot of the mountain by cable hoists. The ore mine has four electric power stations and a central air-compressing station. There is an electric sub-station underground. The nearest centre to the new works is Nalchik, capital of Kabardino-Balkaria.
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Molybdenum and Tungsten in the Caucasus. Nature 147, 264–265 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147264e0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/147264e0