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Lower Cretaceous in the Munella Mountains (Mirdita Zone, northeastern Albania)
Peza, Luftulla Hasan ; Marku, D.
The Munella Mountain is located in the Mirdita area, in the northeastern part of Albania. Berrisian, Valanginian deep-water flysch deposits. Unsorted breccias, including large blocks of ophiolites and Triassic limestones lie at the base of the Berriasian. Marls, sandstones, conglomerates with rare limestone intercalations characterize the upper part of the Berriasian. Sandstones and marls with abundant molluscs form the base of the Barremian-Aptian deposits. The highhest part of the section consists of platform limestones in Urgonian facies. An interruption in sedimentation during the Hauterivian was caused by the Mirditean orogeny.
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An Environmental Impact of Pyritic Bauxite from the Dajti Mine, Albania
Novák, Jiří Karel ; Minařík, Luděk ; Peza, Luftulla Hasan ; Melka, Karel
The accelerated chemical weathering of bauxite due to acid atmospheric deposition and breakdown of pyrite was simulated using short-termed laboratory acid leaching at 20 o C. Pyrite-bearing gibbsite-boehmitic bauxite giving rise to a number of questions concerning ecology was tested along with oxic boehmitic bauxite from the Dajti mine and that from Mali Korites (Mali Thate Mts., SE Albania). The leachte of pyrite-bearing and sulphate-producing bauxite is enriched in the following risk elements: Cd, Be, Zn, Ni, Co, and much less Cr, Cu, As, and Pb. Toxic soluble hydroxy-alumina ions may be also released into the aquatic environment, because of high concentration in output leachate (563 mg/l). In contrast, the leachates of oxic boehmitic bauxites commonly contain much lower concentrations of toxic elements with exception of Cu (Dajti mine) and Be (new occurence of Mali Korites).
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