PRINCIPAL PHOSPHATE DEPOSITS. 



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But the English superphosphate industry is almost entirely stopped, 

 < owing to • the competition of other countries that possess more 

 readily workahle deposits. (See footnote p. 5 and context.) 



IV. Sweden a.nd Norway. — Sweden. Apatite with 36 to 41 

 per cent P.2O5 is found in quartz at Horesjobera. 



Norivaif. — In the Kragero schists, near Christiania, likewise 

 in the granite and gneiss, crystalline apatite is met with rarely in 

 crystals. Its colour is yellowish-white or greenish-grey or red. 

 The crystals have the following composition 1 — 



TABLE XVIII.— ANALYSIS OF NORWEGIAN APATITE (CRYSTALS). 



V. Germany. — Germany possesses almost no deposits of phos- 

 phate of lime industrially utilizable, and the recent geological exam- 

 inations that have been made have hardly given any result. 



VI. Austria-Hungary. — ^Deposits of poor phosphates exist in 

 Bohemia, at Kostic and at Teplitz, the composition of w^hich is 

 as follows : — 



TABLE XIX.— ANALYSIS OF BOHEMIAN PHOSPHATES. 



Moreover, vast deposits of phosphorite are ^found in Galicia and 

 Bukovina, which are connected with those of Central Russia, as 

 ^will be seen further on. 



VII. Russia. — There are two deposits of phosphorite in Russia 

 ,of considerable extent, one of which, part of Podolia, 500,000 

 hectares (1,250,000 acres), and of Bessarabia, 70,000 hectares 

 (175,000 acres), extends into Austria. Its most important centre is 

 in the basin of the Dneister, between St. Urzica and Nozileu. The 



