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Government Committee for Tourism in Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia, now known as the two separate countries of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, has a long tradition of mining. One of these minerals is…
Directorate of Overseas Surveys - Survey Production Centre
Swaziland
Like red ochre, yellow ochre is an earth pigment, mined worldwide. Yellow ochre was mined from Swaziland's Bomvu Ridge as long as forth thousand years…
Mario Ruspoli
Lascaux Cave Drawings
These paintings were made tens of thousands of years ago on the walls of caves in what is now France. The paintings in the Cave of Lascaux rely…
National Geographic Society (U.S.) Cartographic Division
Mediterranean, Sepia Pigment
The cuttlefish is known to inhabit the shallows of the Mediterranean Sea where it has long been a popular source for extracting the grey-brown pigment…