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IT’S not for nothing that the south of Luxembourg is known as the Terre Rouge — or, in English, the land of the red rocks.
The discovery of iron ore deposits known as “minette” in 1842 led to an industrial boom in landlocked grand duchy.
By the time of the first world war, Luxembourg was the sixth-largest producer of cast iron in the world. And despite a population of only 260,000, it was the eighth-largest producer of steel.
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