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Barbara Radwanek-Bak Polish Geological
Institute-Carpathian Branch Polias Geological
Survey
Some problems of sustainable management of
mineral resources in Poland



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• Polish mineral resources over centuries

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Mile stones of the polish mining and prospection
geology

• 1253 rock salt underground Bochnia mine
• 1290 - rock salt Wieliczka mine
• 1415 - native sulphur mining in Swoszowice near
  Krakow
• 1740 - lignite mine in the Turoszów area
• 1822 - Zn-Pb Boleslaw mine
• 1947 - discovery of Klodawa salt dome deposit
• 1953 - discovery of huge native sulphur deposits
  in the Tarnobrzeg area
• 1954 - discovery of lignite deposits by Konin and
  Belchatów
• 1957 discovery of Cu ore deposits in the
  Lubin-Polkowice area
• 1959 KGHM Cu ores mining and processing plant
• 1959 - opencast sulphur mine in Piaseczno
• 1967 - discovery of hard coal deposit Leczna in
  the Lublin Basin
• 1974 - Zn-Pb mine at Olkusz
• 1975 - lignite Belchatów mine
• 1982 - hard coal mine Bogdanka in the Lublin
  Basin

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The main mineral resources and the amount of
their extraction in 2005in million tonnes,
natural gas in billions m3
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Future forecast of the mining development in
Poland
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Environmental and spatial planning conditioning
of mining activity

• 1. A neccessity of keeping a number of
  environmental standards (water and air pollution,
  noise,
• waste management)
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• 2. Minimization of anthropogenic impacts of
  mining industry to the environment
• 3. Growing of nature protected areas and objects
• 4. Development of housing and growing of
  spatial-planning conflicts
• 5. Decreasing of a mineral deposits and mineral
  resources accessibility, causing possible future
  lack of raw materials

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Housing development / mining activity conflict.
Sandstone quarry at Klikuszowa
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Housing and public facilities / deposit
accessibility conflict. Natural aggregate
deposits of the Dunajec valley.
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Natura 2000 Net/deposits accessibitity
conflict.Natural aggregate deposits of the Sola
river valley
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Ecological conflict of the mineral deposits in
the polish part of the Carpathians
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Reasons of ecological and spatial-planning
conflicts of mineral deposits exploited
in the polish part of
the Carpathians
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Future mining sustainable mining sustainable
management of mineral resources

• Sustainable mining - conducting mineral activity
  according to
• sustainable development principles. It relates
  to all stages of mining
• and processing activities.
• In the field of geology
• 1. Elaboration of environmental management
  principles in the areas where minerals are
  exploited
• - preparing geological studies
  and pre-feasibility studies with respect to the
  environmental factors
• - preparing the environmental
  impact assessments.
• 2. Balancing mineral deposits and mineral
  resources and keeping the mining areas register.
• 3. Classifying and valorisation of the deposits
• - for the sake of their protection
  (accessibility)
• - to show the possible conflicts
  between their management, environment and land
  use-planning
• 4. Preparing the geological-economic-
  environmental maps of Poland in 150 000
• 5. Keeping activities for mineral waste
  utilization (investigations and tests, preparing
  maps showing location dumps of mineral waste
  useful for road construction)
• 6. Identification and assessment of the
  anthropopgenic mineral deposits.

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Future miningsustainable mining

• In the field of mining activity
• 1. Decreasing of negative impacts of mining
• 2. Reasonable management and utilization of
  mineral resources
• 3. Securing the unutilized mineral reserves in
  abandoned deposits
• 4. Reclamation and redevelopment of mining sites
  and post mining areas
• 5. Geodiversity protection
• - development of geoparks in post
  mining areas
• - elaboration geotourist attractions
  and/or geosities studies.

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THANK YOU
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Conclusions

• Future development of mining have to be realized
  according to the sustainable development rules.
• The pointed fields of the activity are realized
  with different intensity by the Polish Geological
  Survey.
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Stan zasobów wegla kamiennego, brunatnego i torfu
w latach 1954-1960
Stan zasobów gazu ziemnego i metanu pokladów
wegla w latach 1955-2000
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Resources of main metal raw materialsin 1954-2002
Resources of chemical raw materialsin 1954-2002