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Nonferrous extractive metallurgy in Japan

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In a sense the saying “Japan is a museum of minerals” may be transformed to “Japan is a museum of extractive metallurgy”. This review of some of the exhibits on display has been written especially for Journal of Metals by one of Japan’s leading authorities in this field.

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  1. University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Yoshiki Ogawa (Former president of the Mining and Metallurgical Institute of Japan, professor of metallurgy)

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Ogawa, Y. Nonferrous extractive metallurgy in Japan. JOM 11, 175–177 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03397815

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