Szakáll Sándor - Jánosi Melinda: Minerals of Hungary (Topographia Mineralogica Hungariae 4. Miskolc, 1996)
This contrast explains why Hungarian mineralogists for a long while after 1920 continued to discuss rich localities in historic Hungary, and only a few studies treated present-day Hungarian territories. Besides the above mentioned still active students of Krenner the activity of Viktor Zsivny and the last representatives of the Krenner school, Mária Vendl, Sándor Koch and László Tokody (Fig. 8) deserve mention. Sándor Koch was the first to attempt in one of his shorter studies to list the minerals in present-day Hungary (KOCH, 1927). In this compilation he names 63 species (Fig. 12). In the 30s intensive search for raw materials began in order to regenerate the country. Almost all previously known ore deposits and indications were prospected again and many new explorations were made. Besides the detailed studies concentrating on particular minerals an increasing number of papers aimed at elaborating on the minerals of a particular localities. Several of these summaries were published by Béla Mauritz (Fig. 9) and Sándor Koch (Fig. 10) and by the new generation of mineralogists, Robert Reichert, Kálmán I. Sztrókay (Fig. 11), and János Erdélyi. 4. The period of geological prospecting (1950-1985) After World War II reconstructions, the development of heavy industry demanding raw material and the politics endeavouring selfreliance brought about a rapid quantitative incrase in geological research which climaxed in the 50s. In this era most of the mineralogical data are to be found in studies relating to ore prospecting (Gábor Pantó, Béla Jantsky, János Kiss, Vilma Széky-Fux) and exploration of non-metallic raw materials (József Mezősi, Ernő Nemecz). Mineralogical work strictly spoken continued to be practised by Béla Mauritz, Kálmán I. Sztrókay, János Erdélyi, László Tokody and Sándor Koch. Szeged University at this time was a distinguished research centre for the mineralogical topography of present-day Hungary:
