Mineral Resources of Georgia and Caucasia: Manganese Industry of Georgia

Abstract

THIS little book is interesting as being the outcome of the reorganisation of national boundaries after the war and as evidence of the political and economic independence of the new Republic of Georgia; this was an independent kingdom until it was forcibly annexed by Russia in 1801, and only recommenced its autonomous existence in 1917. The object of the work now published by Mr. Ghambashidze is to make British readers acquainted with the industrial importance of Georgia and Caucasia so far as the mineral wealth of this region is concerned. The author gives a long list of the various mineral substances of economic value known to occur therein, although relatively few have been worked on an industrial scale. Mineral Resources of Georgia and Caucasia: Manganese Industry of Georgia. By D. Ghambashidze. Pp. 182. (London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd.; New York: The Macmillan Co., 1919.) Price 8s. 6d. net.