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The studied area Central Spi? is located in Rud?any - Gelnica area, which is according to environmental regionalization included in the environmentally loaded and unhealthy areas in Slovakia. As a result of long and intensive mining and processing of minerals, the area is polluted with heavy metals and the landscape was altered by extensive anthropogenic forms. In the context of mining activity, surface water acts as a transport medium of pollution, thus expanding the area of the impact of old mining activities on...

The work is focused to study the impact of alkaline and metallic deposition on soil phosphatase activity. Area JelпїЅava - LubenпїЅk with specific alkaline pollutants is one of the most devastated regions of Slovakia. Mining and processing of magnesite is accompanied by enormous emissions of particulate matter of MgO into the air. The heavy metals Cd, Pb, Zn, Mn and Cr are also found in the dust particles. Seven research sites in the agrarian country of the problem area JelпїЅava and LubenпїЅk were monitored. Midd...