Slovak magnesite works Jelšava

Slovak magnesite works, JCS, Jelšava is one of the top Europeand and world producers of basic monolithic mixes. The company offers to its customers quality, long time tradicion reliabity and precesion to become a key market player on the market at four continents in the world.

The plant has a more than 100-year history. During that time it has undergone many changes and modernization. The emergence of the current factory dates back to 16.09 1923, which started trial operation on the warm water. In 1945, was nationalized and until 1987 was part of a national company. In 1993 the plant was converted to the reorganization of the state-owned enterprise. From 1.4.1994 the plant was privatized joint-stock company founded by employees of the state enterprise.

Magnesit

Magnesite occurs as veins in and an alteration product of ultramafic rocks, serpentinite and other magnesium rich rock types in both contact and regional metamorphic terranes. These magnesites often are cryptocrystalline and contain silica as opal or chert.

Magnesite is also present within the regolith above ultramafic rocks as a secondary carbonate within soil and subsoil, where it is deposited as a consequence of dissolution of magnesium-bearing minerals by carbon dioxide within groundwaters.                                                                 By Petra.

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