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BEYOND 2010, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN KOLUBARA COAL MINES, SERBIA

Bogoljub Vučković

Abstract

This paper represent a short review of non-metallic resourceses (NMR) on few selected lignite deposits in Kolubara Coal Mines (KCM) and estimate thems potential in material and economic aspects. The further discussions are in preliminary mean and looks like an preliminary case study estimation. The paper is in agrement with the principles of sustainable development and the principles of complete and complex utilisation of mineral resourceses potential of the coal deposits. A timing of open pit works on ’’E’’ and ’’G’’ deposits are rappidlly incoming, accord ing to that the all types of designig are accelerate. The senior mineral resource in KCM is low ranked brown coal – lignite, which exploitation gave a dom inant features of mining ac tivities. In earlier years, digged lignite provide all the economic inco me to the mine. Additional, folowing the lignite, in deposits there are a numerous no n-metallic types of resourceses such as gravels, quartz sands and sands, low ranked clays and diatomea earth. Lignite is well geologicaly explored, so we can talk of about 2,5B t of it’s quantities. More than 1,5B t are exploatible; the rest of 1B t is stil under resourceses mean. The huge non-metalic quantities are, according to it’s poor geologicaly explorations, still resourceses. On open pit ’’D’’ and ’’Veliki Crljeni’’ they are under economic exploitation and valorisation.

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DOI resolver: doi.org/10.5593/sgem2011/s03.110

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