MONTENEGRIN ORES

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• Publication Date: August 29, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
COUNTRY Yugoslavia
SUBJECT Economic - Mineral resources
HOW
PUBLISHED Monthly periodical
WHERE
PUBLISHED Belgrade
DATE
PUBLISHED
LANGUAGE
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1949
DATE DIRT r1 Aug 1950
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
TH It DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL `INTENSE
OF THE UNITIC STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF 1SP101A01 ACT 90
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Tehnika, No 12, 1949
Eng Radoje..Vttkcevid:
Chief, Mining Office,
Montenegrin Ministry of Industry
Montenegro may be divided into two parts on the basis of the type of ore
found there: the southwestern part, which contains bauxite and montmorillon-
ite ores, and the northeastern part, which contains lead, zinc, silver, cop-
per, gold, manganese, iron, barite, pyrite, and other sulfide ores, as well
as coal.
The following srez belong to the southwestern part: Bar, Cetinje, Tito-
grad, Danilovgrad, Kotor, Hercegnovi,, and a large part of Niksic. In this re-
gion red and white bauxite ore, aluminum silicate ore, some iron ore, manga-
nese, barite, bituminous shale, asphalt, and also petroleum are found.
Preparations for exploitation of white bauxite have been made near Carev
Most and Trubjela, and for red bauxite near the"Kosijerevo Monastery in Zagrad
and on Kutsko Brdo (Hill). The largest deposits of red bauxite are found in
Niksic Srez, Cetinje Srez, and Bar Srez. Less significant deposits of red
bauxite are fouAd in Titograd, Srez, Danilovgrad Srez, Hercegnovi Srez, and.Ko-
tor Srez. The best red bauxite ore is located in Oblatno, Liverovic, Skori Vrh,
Kutsko Brdo, Zagrad, and Stitovo, all of which are in Niksic Zupa (Parish).
In Zagrad 31,365 tons of bauxite were dug in 1948. In the same year it
was also established that about one million tons of bauxite reserves are lo-
cated there. These bauxite deposits are 20 meters thick, and their chemical
analysis gives the following results: 60 percent A1203, 3.64 percent SiO2,
Large deposits of red bauxite are also found in the Niksic-Cevo-Grahovo
area, or more specifice y in Crvena Kit, Crveno Lokanje, and Bajov Do, where
the deposits are 30 meters thick, and where the bauxite reserves-are estimated
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to amount to 10 million tons. The chemical analysis of these deposits is as
follows: 50 to 55 percent A1203 and 12 percent S102. In Bar Srez, red bauxite
deposits contain 50 to 60 percent A1203.
The red bauxite ore found in Zivin.ia and Kobile in Hercegnovi Srez and in
Valdinos Bay in Bar Srez was found to contain 55.65 percent 6.30 per-
cent SiO2, 21.71 percent Fe2O3, and 3.12 percent TiO2. The loss from roasting
this bauxite is 13.50 percent. There are about 100,000 tons of red bauxite ore
containing 60 percent A1203 and less than 5 percent SiO2 in Montenegro; the ore
is found in Niksic Zupa. The estimated amount of red bauxite ore containing
an average of 55 percent of A1203 and from 5 to 7 percent SiO2 is about 10 mil-
lion tons. Montenegro has about 100 million tons of red bauxite containing 50
to 60 percent A1203 and up to 12 percent of Si02.
Of all the republics, Montenegro alone has large quantities of white bauxite.
Deposits of this ore are located southwest and west of Niksic and cover an area
of over 70 square kilometers.
Some of the most important deposits of white bauxite are located in the
following places:
Carey Most, Budos, Brocanac, Ljeskovi Doli, Bijele Poljane, Gostac, Trub-
jela, Malakita, Bijela Kita, and Krstac. .
The white bauxite found in Montenegro consists of boehmite, kaolin, rutile,
and limonite. Of all the areas tested for white bauxite, the deposits in Bijele
Poljane, southwest of Niksic, have been found most significant for exploitation.
The deposits here cover an area of several square kilometers. The following
agencies have tested the bauxite from Bijele Poljane: the Institute of Physi-
cal Chemistry of the Technical Faculty in Zagreb, the Ironworks in Jesenice,
the chemical laboratory of the Main Adminstration of the Federal Industry of
Refractory Material in Arandjelovac, and the chemical laboratory of the Mining
Office of Montenegro. The nalysis of the white bauxite in Bijele Poljane is
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llows:
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Chemical composition (in percent)
Minerological composition (in percent)
A1203
58.35
Boehmite
45.51
S i02
22.52
Kaolinite
49.47
Fe203
2.25
Limonite
2.25
Ti03
2.65
Rutile
2.65
Loss from roasting
14.66
A considerable number of montmorillonite deposits are located at Bijelo Polje
above Petrovac Na Moru. Tests have shown that this area has at least 20 mil-
lion tons of this ore. It is believed that 15 million additional tons of this
ore could be found here, but all the tests have not yet been completed. Smal-
ler deposits of this ore are located at Pastrovici, at Virpazar, and at Sus-
tasi in Bar Srez.
Montmorillonite from Bijelo Polje contains 69.17 percent of 5102, 14.83
percent of A1203, 2.88 percent of Fe203, 2.47 percent of CaO, 2.12 percent of
MgO, and 2.27 percent of alkali oxides. The loss from roasting is 5.76 per-
cent.
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Barite deposits have been found in the Misic-Sutomore region, where 1,600
tons of ore were dug for testing purposes. Iron deposits were found in Sozina,
and manganese ore was found in the vicinity of Petrovac and Kurilo near Stari
Bar, and in Boijevici in Crmnica.
Petroleum deposits have been discovered in Smrdez near Bukovik in Crmnica
and in Buljarica near Petrovac. Asphalt has been discovered in Ulcinj.
Coal deposits in the Pljevlja basin cover an area of 16 square kilometers.
The average thickness of the coal deposits here is 17 meters. The total coal
reserves in the Pljevlja basin are from 200 to 250 million tons.
The Ivangrad and Police coal basins are easily three times as large as the
Pljevlja basin and their coal has a higher caloric value than coal from Pljevlja,
but the seams are thinner and less pure. Several smaller coal basins are located
between Pljevlja and Ivangrad, but these have not yet been explored.
In the vicinity of the Ivangrad coal basin, large deposits of cement clay
are located near Bandovic Most near Kralj.
Deposits of bauxite were discovered on Kovac Mountain 1948. The analysis
of the ore showed that it contains 96.87 percent of BaS04 1.41 percent of 5102,
0.86 percent of Fe203 4A1203, 0.43 percent of CaO, and 0.15 percent of MgO.
The loss from roasting was 0.39 percent. The center of this deposit is 6 kilo-
meters from the nearest road, and thus is not easily accessible.
Manganese ore and iron ore are located at Klina AndniieVic region, where
Srez, in the Moraca River valley near Ljuta, and dcposits, especially of manganese, can be seen for several kilometers. The anal-
ysis of the ore in the Sinjajevina region shows that it contains 48.80 to 72.26
to
1.48 percent of M11Prcent to 15.93 3, 0.32 to percent
to 1.81.
cent of CaO, and 0.10 to 0.23 percent of P. The loss from roasting is 4.80 to
5.30 percent.
Pyrite and copper ores are located in the Konjuh, Murina, Brezovica,
Vizitor, and Maja Borit regions, all of which are in Andrijevic Srez. Krn a
Jela near Savnik, and Mratinje in the Piva River region, also claim pyrite
copper deposits.
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