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Hydrogeological features of the quaternary sediments lies in different assumption for the emergence of freatic accumulations of groundwater and the ability to power or, conversely, to some extent seal underlying aquifers. Effect of the opencast mining on activities of quaternary sediments is significant and consists primarily in a drainage effect. In places, where the overburden works crossed saturated parts of the quaternary cover, there is a sudden drainage of aquifers. This water vents are regularly cause unres...

The native gold containing high silver, extracted from gold bulk of few kilograms, was comprehensively researched. The studied through the optical microscope gold samples seem homogeneous and their fineness varies from 200 to 500 ppm. The fineness deviates from the mean value about ±20-30 ppm, however zonation is not observed. When the gold samples were dissolved in nitric acid, only silver was released into solution and gold remained in the insoluble remainder as the spongy-porous skeleton, consisting of pure gol...

The paper treats aspects of revitalization and reconstruction of existing facilities – schools and kindergartens, in the context of sustainable development. The analysis of architectural opportunities is based on researching fund-building in Serbia, at first in Nis. Having in mind that existing facilities spend a great amount of energy in the phase of exploitation, the paper research the possibilities of rehabilitation schools and kindergartens in order to improve energy efficiency.

We analyze long term series of mean monthly river runoff in the period 1931–2007 to characterize drought severity in 118 gauging stations across the Czech Republic. A threshold level method is employed using Q95 discharge as the threshold to identify periods during which the flow is below limit and thus considered as drought. We use both annual and monthly variable threshold. The drought parameters are the deficit volume and the duration. We observe the relation between deficit volume and the physical and geograph...

Building industry is the most important market for energy by-products (EBP) - fossil fuel combustion products. The North West Bohemia region has been influenced by open pit coal mining. Fossil fuel combustion products are used in bulk at damaged territory reclamation. Check observation – monitoring – site of building reclamation mixtures on coal combustion product base was assembled according to preparatory documentation as a part of the solution of research task “Research of the physical and chemical properties o...

The Act on protection and conservation of cultural goods has been in force in the Republic of Croatia since 1999. It defines types of cultural goods and measures for their protection and conservation. The main authority for protection and conservation of cultural goods is the Ministry of Culture. This paper will describe geodetic works on saving a protected cultural monument. Results of the analysis of movement measurements over a longer time period will give insight into the real conditions and enable experts to ...

In this study a methodological framework is presented using tools and techniques of geoinformatics to quantify gully erosion. The study was conducted in the Fergusson catchment; a sub-catchment of the Daly river, Northern Australia. Various airborne and field based reconnaissance surveys have shown that the catchment in places is severely affected by gully erosion producing large amounts of sediment. The framework applied comprised of Cartosat-1 (2.5 m resolution) stereo imagery 2008, topographic maps 1:20,000, 1 ...

Drought is a stress factor that cause of limitation life activities and effects the vegetal production. Plants are the most important source that feeding necessity of the human population who increase rapidly. Drought stress, heat stress and heat shock, low heat and freezing, salinity and oxygen deficiency are the main stress factors that lead to plant growing. Because of these stress types, the biological mass and yield of plant usually decreases under of genetic potential at the end of growing season. Drought is...

Tunnel ’’St. Ilija’’ is on the road that connects the Makarska Riviera and a new highway through the mountain range Biokovo (Figure 1). With a length of 4250 m, it is currently fourth road tunnel in Croatia, but also the tunnel with greatest overburden of 1300 m. According to the available information this is a road tunnel with the biggest limestone overburden in Europe, and as such it represented a real challenge for all who participated in its construction. This article describes the geodetic works that are unde...

This paper reports the results of electron probe x-ray microanalysis (EPMA) aimed at identification of the modes of gold and silver occurrence in loose sediments of lithochemical stream sediments (LSS) of the Dukat gold-silver deposit in northeastern Russia. Modes of occurrence of major ore elements Ag and Au have been investigated and their chemical composition has been identified. The EPMA technique has been elaborated to measure the composition of stream sediments (minerals) containing silver and gold using the...

The phenomenon of globalization in the world, competition is increasing with each passing day. As a result of these developments, companies, to gain is competitive advantage, a in wide range of products, quickly, as a cost-effectively and producing the desired quality level has to take to market. Not only manufacture and meets the expectations of the market, but also by establishing a rational work organization get the costs under control then the optimum level of resources to use in the business of the concepts o...

The analytical results for the concentration of about 50 elements in magnetic fractions, obtained by wet low intensity magnetic separation of fly ashes from six coal burning power plants in Bulgaria, have been compared to the data previously reported [1] for the initial fly ashes. It has been found that the total content of heavy and toxic elements in magnetic fractions is lower than that in the source materials. The concentrations of Cr, Mn, Co, Ni, and, in some ashes, of V and Cu are almost proportional to the c...

Waste management is common problem for many countries in world and landfill site selection is a necessary issue for waste management in fast-growing regions. Likewise, appropriate landfill site selection should be performed for each municipality in Turkey because municipal solid wastes are major problem for especially drinking water basins. The main objective of this study is to selection of a landfill site in the Yalva\cc Basin. The basin is located at east of the Egirdir Lake which is the second largest fresh wa...

Turkey is located in a geographical region on a combination of different climatic conditions. Climatic conditions are controlled by temperature and humidity. In this study, the effect of climatic conditions on the uniaxial compressive strength of natural building stones were investigated by using 7 different types of rocks such as granite, limestone, travertine and tuff sampled from different parts of Turkey. First group of experimental studies was conducted to find out the frost resistance of some of the studied ...

The reservoirs created behind dams built on the main interior rivers of Romania as well as on the Danube have increased the country’s available volume of usable water. The reservoirs’ location and the way they were managed resulted in a decrease of the retention capacity, due to large quantities of sediments accumulated in these lakes. The reservoirs on the rivers Bistriţa, Buzău, Ialomiţa, Argeş and Olt have been affected the worst by the silting process. On average, the values range from 0 - 25\% of the lakes’ u...

Perspective conception is characterized by including of wastes assembly problems in sphere of general actions for environment protection taking into account as any nonvalorized waste or least non-used, pollute the environment. Processing of solid minerals sterile and obtaining of sub-products which are economically usable has major importance, both from economical and ecological point of view, through environment protection. Researches had followed elaboration of ecological technologies of processing the waste as ...

Today, tourism is considered in a different approach, away from classic tourism understanding. The countries which have developed their national aviation and can create alternative tourism types have been ahead and had advantages in payment balances. However, the governments of some countries which guide the world tourism today have had to give financial support to save their aviation campanies under a heavy economical crisis after the 11th. september terror events and afterwards during the economic crisis. Under ...

Being inherited from 20th century and having increasingly negative effect on our lives, environmental problem had became inevitable part of our life. However employmentand development-related issues had led several governments to defer the subject. Countries including United States, China, India, Brazil, Turkey and Australia are not eager against international environmental regulations. Private sectors of several third world countries may threat governments and non-governmental organization to cease their business...

SME is the most numerous and important business, performing multiple economic technical and social functions. After Romania joins the European Union came into force many acts and a large part of their obligation regulate business (in competition, consumer protection, labor relations, health and safety at work, environmental protection, etc.). It is therefore very important to know the level of information of the Romanian SMEs in relation to regulations introduced after 1 January 2007.

In recent years, due to advances in science and technology, environmental issues have been rising, constantly requiring additional attention. Fumes, waste water, air pollution are just some of many problems the society’s dealing with today. We are now in position to use the same technology, that threatens to destroy basic environmental resources necessary for living, for monitoring environmental parameters’ conditions and avoiding further pollution. Visualization of real time data and on-time data delivery are of ...

A man-made structure or natural phenomena like crustal movement, vertical land movements, subsidence determination, etc. is subject to deformations due to forces on them. Deformations of a structure require rigorous analysis to reflect significant movements. In general, deformation analysis relies on the reference network that is set outside the deforming area so that a comparison could be possible. However, a geodetic reference network is itself subject to movement. Therefore, the stability of the reference netwo...

The water resources of a location has determinant importance for the development strategy of all activities of population as from these factors are depending the possibilities of a location development. In this study were treated the issues of territorial definition of Peja’s Puddle Lumbardhi as well as the net of running water and water sources of the Puddle and the average bringing water of these flows and resources. It was treated as well the issues which concerns the orografi, pedological elements and climacti...

The Republic of Croatia, as any other country in the world that has been faced with the war consequences is burdened with one of the most difficult consequences – mine contamination. Therefore the most sophisticated Mine Information System (MIS) has been established in the Croatian Mine Action Centre (CROMAC). Mine Information System of the Croatian Mine Action Centre applied in the system of anti-mine activity in the Republic of Croatia. Geodetic measurements of searched and demined areas is one of the actions th...

The Makran coast of Iran is exposed to the long waves generated in the Indian Ocean. The coast experienced huge waves induced by tsunami and cyclone during the past decades. Using the impact of the past events we present potential inundation areas for the great waves on the Makran coast. Based on the value of long wave height, three flood zones are specified on the inundation map. The first zone associated with no considerable inundation on uplifted rocky shore, the second zone would experience up to a few kilomet...

Several important characteristics such as suitable parent rocks, hydrodynamics system for carrying uranium complexes and pervious sedimentary layers play key role for transportation and deposition of soluble uranium. In this paper, we present the results of investigations of parent rocks and host rock of sedimentary uranium in Razgah region to examine intrusive of nepheline syenite in Razgah together with surrounding sedimentary units with regard of sedimentary uranium mineralization. Razgah nepheline syenite loca...

It is known, that there are two qualitatively different sources of supply of Tbilisi by potable water - underground (artesian wells near settlements Natakhtari, Bulachauri, Mukhrani) and surface (Tbilisi reservoir filled with waters of the rivers Aragvi and Iori). The work gives the values of the main ions (Ca2+, Mg2+, SO4 2-, Cl-, HCO3-, CO3 2-) and water hardness in drinking (tap) water in different districts of Tbilisi city (the largest settlement in Georgia). There have been received the values of concentratio...

In the present study collection rate constant (kc) was modeled as a function of the most significant operating variables which affect gas dispersion in a flotation column (i.e. superficial gas velocity, slurry density (solids\%) and frother dosage/type) using artificial neural network (ANN) and statistical techniques. Experiments were performed in an industrial flotation column (4 m in diameter and 12 m in height) in rougher circuit of a copper concentrator. RTD studies using a radioactive tracer have already conf...

A new practice has started to be implemented in Kosovo, in this south-eastern region of Europe, and it is 24-hour monitoring of vehicles and facilities with strategy for the development of mines in Kosovo with the help of GPS system. These vehicles and static facilities (the explosive storage) have a sophisticated system, which enables a precise monitoring of movements in and around them. Global Positioning System (GPS) currently presents the greatest achievements and application in the communication technology. B...

The monitoring of gravity changes in a region enables the investigation of regional structural elements depending upon the changes in mass compensation. Especially the microgravity method, which is preferred in recent years, yields good results from different part of the world. With the addition of GPS/GNSS monitoring to microgravity studies, the behavior of a region both in the lateral and vertical directions can be estimated. Besides, the main fault system and the mechanical links can be determined owing to this...

Middle and Upper Jurassic deposits from the area of Piatra Craiului are part of the Piatra Craiului Formation [5] and are made up of deep facies appearing at the surface, especially on the western side of the massif. On the eastern side, these facies appear sporadically, thinned due to tectonic effects. Also, they may be accompanied aby lowdepth carbonatic facies corresponding to the shelf. Lithologically, it is possible to highlight microconglomerates, quartzitic gritstones, silts, reef limestone, brown-reddish l...

Mozambique is one of the most vulnerable countries to natural catastrophes in the world with second highest annual per capita death rate from disasters, 328 deaths per million, ranking only below the P.D.R of Korea; Flood disasters are responsible for half the fatalities and a third of the economical losses from natural disasters worldwide (UNDP, 2004). The Limpopo basin, one of the nine international rivers shared by Mozambique is the second large within the country and it benefits about 5\% of the national popul...

Various heavy metals contained in fuel are released to environment at fossil fuels use. Mercury has come to front of public interest recently. The North West Bohemia region is an area with high potential concentration of Hg emission sources (open pit brown coal mines) and large combustion facilities (power and heat stations) combusting fossil fuels. Mercury is taken for one of the most environment loading matters because its stability and bioaccumulation potential of itself and its compounds. More detailed regulat...

The Earth climate has been changing during recent decades towards increase of global surface average temperatures. The process is known as “global warming”. The causes for this climate phenomenon have been globally disputed but most of world scientists participating in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change agreed on the fact that human industrialization has a major impact on this process by emitting additional quantities of greenhouse gasses (GHG) called anthropogenic emissions. The world nations have agre...

Nickel-copper (Ni-Cu) mining and smelting activities within Selebi Phikwe area, Botswana is suspected to be having negative impact on the biophysical environment; thereby influencing the health of residents of this growing urbanised settlement. This paper focuses on relating the biophysical environmental hazards emanating from mining activities to human health status of residents of the study area. Mineralogical analysis of samples of tailings dump, soils, and particulate air matter (PAM) were conducted. Concentra...

Ulukisla (Nigde/Turkey) evaporites that compose the study area are situated in Ulukisla Basin at the east of Nigde, South of Central Anatolia. The aim of the study is to investigate the geological, mineralogical and geochemical properties of the gypsum and anhydrites in Ulukisla Evaporites and to determine usage area of the evaporites as an industrial material. For this scope, 50 anhydrite and gypsum samples were collected systematically from the Ulukisla evaporites in 900 m thick area. By XRD (X - Ray Diffraction...

Slovak republic committed to implement into legislative direction of European parliament and European Council 2006/21/ES from March of 15th of 2006. The direction contains conditions about disposal with wastes of mining industry, which changes and adds direction 2004/35/ES. This legislative required creation of complex evaluation methodology of different types of mining wastes. Tailing pond represents area for permanently or temporary deposition of mainly hydraulically consigned mud/sediment (waste). Consigned mud...

The pre-Caspian basin has been formed from Paleozoic to Cenozoic time and the Kashagan field is situated in the southern part of Pre-Caspian depression in the Southern flung of Astrakhan-Aktyubinsk elevation system of basal complex and associated with Tengiz- Kashagan interbasin carbonate platform. The platform is composed of separate carbonate early Carboniferous blocks resting on the common Devonian (late Fransian-Fammenian) carbonate base. Four of them are: Kashagan, Kashagan South-West, Aktote and Kairan are l...

The accurate determination of the platinum group elements (PGEs) in environmental samples has become a particularly important in the past few years with the introduction of new legislation regulating the fitting of catalytic converters to petrol vehicles [1]. The emission of PGEs autocatalysts represents a potentially, highly mobile source of environmental contamination. Pt, Pd and Rh from catalyst degradation are deposited along roadways. Although inert in metallic form, platinum salts pose a real health risk. Th...

Fly dusts creates by steel and cast iron melting. Their properties depends on a type of melting aggregate. For steel it is first of all a fly dust from electric arc furnace, its chemical composition is depended on the kind of produced steel. A cupola furnace is the most used furnace for cast iron production. Fly dusts from steel and cast iron production contain some part of FeO that is reducible in a cupola and blast furnace. It is a very fine material and it has to be pelletized or briquetted before its next use....

The importance of understanding Social Intelligence (SI) skills has gravitated form the business management to training activities. Social intelligence skills that students have affect the academic performance of the students. This study aimed at exploring the relationship between one of those well-known concepts, job satisfaction, and emotional intelligence. To this end, a research has been conducted on the students who are attending at school of vocational studies (n=150) of a private university in Istanbul. In ...

When infrastructural routes pass through sites with a long-term natural balance, landslide processes may be instigated. The reason is the human intervention. The scale of this intervention is usually sufficient to break the balance border between the admissible human intervention and nature. Crossing this frontier is followed by increased expenditures and termination of construction activities. The subject of this paper covers not only the measures for the ecological balance to be efficiently restored. Attention i...

In the given work statistical processing of the existing base of long-term historical data of the River Kura «Mtkvari» water quality parameters (some biogenic substances: nitrate NO3 and nitrite NO2 ions) for the period of 1980 – 1989 in some large settlements is carried out, in particular, above and below cities Borjomi, Gori, Tbilisi and Rustavi. Results for the small settlement Khertvisi located close to border with Turkey were also used as the representative data. There is offered the simple methodology of a q...

For all territory of Kosova during 1966 – 1982 were compiled geological map sheets at scale 1:100 000 and description texts. During 2005 – 2006 ICMM had projects on compiling Geological map at scale 1:200 000 and digitalization of geological map sheets at scale 1:100 000. Projects were realized by Beak Consultants GmbH and in close corporation with geology staff of ICMM. During map digitalization were observed some discrepancies between some map sheets. In order to verify exacts description, during 2005 were organ...

Major environmental problem worldwide, air pollution gains our particular attention, especially in the case of industrial emission. Among such concerns, SO2 generated by combustion flue gas requires profound analysis, mostly because it is known to cause acid rains. In time, many mathematical models gave both quantification and prediction of pollution level. This work aims to compare several SO2 dispersion equations (i.e. Sutton equation, Bosanquet-Pearson equation and diffusion equation, derived from the plume dis...

Recent advances in remote sensing have changed conventional ways of collecting and processing elevation data. Especially Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) has become one of the leading technologies for rapid acquisition of elevation data. In this paper we present a system for digital elevation model (DEM) construction from LiDAR data. First, we present a visualization technique that allows efficient representation for LiDAR data processing. This makes the data segmentation, which is the key step in DEM generatio...

Konyaaltı coast area is a famous touristic region with its 9 km long beach at the west side of Antalya City. Nowadays, the region is subjected to multi - storey and dense constructioning activities due to its touristic charm. Lagoony and alluvial mechanisms in its development, the soil profile presents a considerably complex structure as a result of sea level and vertical ground movements. In this study, geotechnical and mineralogical characteristics of blue – green clays of the Harbour District existing inside th...

Petrophysics (physics of rocks) is a branch of Natural Science which studies physical properties and behavior of rocks, their change regularity and mechanism, and properties interrelationship. Determination of thermal conductivity, thermal diffusivity and heat capacity is one of the most significant problems in petrophysics. It is necessary for solving a wide range of issues related to natural and artificial thermal fields in the Earth crust: predictions of abyssal temperatures, oil and gas exploration and prospec...

The general trend of GIS development seems to indicate that it will continue to become easier to use, more intuitive, more analytic, more embedded within a variety of technologies. The latest development in GIS application added an extra dimension to a conventional GIS by using technology of multimedia and virtual reality. The interactive form of decision making taps the widely recognized trend of GIS application from an operational support system to a strategic decision support system.

Froth flotation is an effective process for separating valuable from gangue minerals. Studies show that the performance of froth flotation is affected by the froth structure, and has a strong relationship with visual information of the froth surface. The determination of the froth structure, therefore, plays a vital role for controlling the process. Extensive studies have shown that computer-based vision technology is a robust, non-intrusive and cost effective approach for monitoring and controlling of flotation c...

Geoenvironmental analyses of tailing dams of Norilsk region, typification of hydrotechnical constructions on safety requirements and recommendations for stability providing were carried out. The results of investigations permitted to provide safety exploitation of tailing dams, improve the environmental situation in region and increase the efficiency of production.