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Olkusz

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Olkusz 

city in Poland, in Katowice Województwo. Population, 21,000 (1973). Olkusz has been an important mining center since the 13th century. There are lead and zinc mines within the city limits and in nearby Bukowo. The city has a large metal-working plant.



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Although the manual machines have been replaced by automatic ones, the Frania still continues to sell at a rate of about 40,000 units per year," according to Magda Kwiatkowska, a sales manager for the Emalia Olkusz company which makes them.
Since the 12th century, galena ores have been excavated and used to extract silver and lead in the area of Olkusz near Krakow, whereas gold and hard coal have been excavated in the west of the country, in Lower Silesia.
 
 
 
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