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Hungary Mineral Resources
The Bakony and Vertes mountains contain 10 to 12
percent of
the world's known bauxite reserves and deposits of
manganese ore,
the only alloy necessary for steel production found in
Hungary.
The only iron-ore mine, located at Rudabanya, produces
ankerite
and siderite that contain only 24 to 27 percent iron and
require
lime before smelting. In the late 1980s, the country's
limestone
and dolomite reserves satisfied the needs of its pig-iron
industry. Copper mines at Recsk remained undeveloped in
1987
because of lack of financing and because of copper's low
price on
world commodity markets.
Data as of September 1989
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