ČETIRI STOLJEĆA RUDARSTVA BOKSITA

In the paper the results of many years of archival and field investigations in the history of bauxite mining of the three authors are presented. It was established that in Istria in the valley of the river Mirna beneath the Castle of Sovinjak bauxite was exploited already 400 years ago, and that 1808 about this ore the first scientific account was published. Accordingly, the statements in the professional literature that the first bauxite mine opened 1873 in the French Provence and that the bauxite ore for the first time was scientifically described 1821 have to be revised. About this necessary revision here the essential proofs are produced.U radu se iznose rezultati višegodišnjeg arhivskog i terenskog istraživanja historije boksitnog rudarstva trojice autora. Utvrđeno je da se u Istri u dolini rijeke Mirne pod Sovinjakom boksit otkopavao još prije 400 godina te da je o toj rudi 1808 objavljen prvi naučni prikaz. Prema tome, treba revidirati podatke u stručnoj literaturi o tome da je prvi rudnik boksita otvoren 1873 u francuskoj Provansi i da je ruda boksit prvi put naučno opisana 1821. O toj potrebnoj reviziji prioriteta izneseni su ovdje neophodni dokazi