Word: mineraria
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...rescue work continued, authorities ordered inquiries into the dams' collapse. The structures, built 24 years ago, had been sold by one mining company to another before being taken over by the present owner, the Prealpi Mineraria company of Bergamo, in 1980. The dam complex had consisted of two earthen dams that had created wash basins for filtering and extracting fluorite, a mineral used in making glass. Recent heavy thunderstorms were blamed for the immediate collapse of the dams, but some experts alleged that there might have been an excessive buildup of mud in the lakes from the mineral-extraction process...
...Since first striking Sicilian oil in 1954 at Ragusa (where ENI had tried and failed), he pointed out that Gulf has drilled 34 holes, and that 31 of them are now producing 22,000 bbl. a day-only half of eventual capacity. In contrast, ENI's subsidiary, AGIP Mineraria, has moved into Gela, 30 miles away, in hopes of matching Gulf: there it has a 56,000-acre concession, but only four wells producing. Daily take: about 1,540 bbl. of crude so sulphurous that it has to be treated before refining...
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