Mevlida Operta

Žunić Nihad

Senaid Salihović

 

DOI: 10.35666/28310438.2008.2.471

UDC: 622.013:502.174(497.6Banovići)

  

Abstract: The Law on Mining provides for re-cultivation of the areas where the exploitation of mineral resources has been finished. However, timely decrease of the impact on the environment can be achieved by immediate re-cultivation of devastated surfaces in certain parts of the mineral resources deposit in order to integrate the area into the existing environment. The example of a successful re-cultivation is a Brown Coal Mine Banovići where from 1974. about 40 ha of degraded surface have been re-cultivated by agricultural commodities. Besides these, certain devastated areas have, following technical re-cultivation, been handed over to the inhabitants of surrounding villages who carried out the re-cultivation by agricultural commodities. New settlements, which were moved from the exploitation field, have also been built. In this way, new standards have been set in mining and ecology, which show that it is not only important to unearth the resources but also to invest in recovery as well as useful management of unearthed and recovered area.

Key words: mineral resources, Law on Mining, surface and subterranean explitation, re-cultivation, devastated surfaces, agricultural commodities.

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