Western Balkans Environment Programe

UNDP Montenegro organized in frame of the Western Balkan Environmental Programme for 2009 a study tour to Slovak Republic from 25^th- 31^st October. The subject of the study tour was “Learning from Slovak experience in environmental management and remediation of priority mine sites”.

During the study tour, the participants had in the first day a presentations session with the emphasize at a) the legislative framework and policy framework of mining waste management, identification and prioritization process of mining waste, and b) at application of remediation technologies. In the next four days the participants have visited next sites: Pezinok – Kolarsky vrch, Trojarova  and Augustin adits- these adits are abandoned Sb, Au and pyrite deposits; Dubrava –  the biggest Sb deposit in Slovakia; Rudnany – a mine site with Fe, Cu, Hg and other metals; Porac mine area, the last active part of mining area with barite exploitation, and tailing impoundments; Smolnik – abandoned Cu deposit; Jelsava – the magnesite deposit  “Dubravsky masiv” and the biggest magnesite mine in Slovakia; Hodrusa – Hamre – the participants have visited the historical gold (and Pb-Zn) mine from 14^th century “Vsech svatych”; Sobov, locality Sobov near Banska Stiavnica – an open pit used for exploitation of metasomatic quartzite and heaps with waste material from the pit.

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