Economic geology

The Czech Geology Survey’s economic geologists participate in many research processes aiming at solving the chief problems as follows:

• exploration of regular allocation, emergence and significance of mineral raw resources; basic metallogenetic research on the territory of the Czech Republic
• establishing the importance of ecological risks connected with the results of exploitation and utilization of mineral raw materials; defining priorities and optimal methods for effacing them
• research of further exploitation possibilities of selected waste materials from extraction and treatment operations
• development of exploitation of mineral raw materials on the territory of the Czech Republic
• working up, verification and application of the principal purposes both of the Czech Republic raw material policy and the regional raw material policies, namely for making the qualified decision about the contemporary and future utilization of raw material resources
• development of identification methodics and of mining impact monitoring
• applied research of the possibilities of verification of prognosis resources of insufficient and perspective raw materials
• international cooperation:
  • in the area of the research of the platinoids bound to different types of geological environment (Bioshale – FP6 EU)
  • bilateral cooperation with France (Barrande programme)
  • cooperation with Russia and Uzbekistan
  • participation in the IGCP programmes

Within the CGS’s service framework, the Department of Raw Mineral Deposit Geology assures the following high priority tasks:

• professional functioning of district economic geologists for the entire territory of the Czech Republic
• creation of the basic economic geological maps at a scale of 1:25,000 accompanied with explanations
• the district economic geologists’ functioning within a certain area
• reassessing and proposing of new prognosticated mineral raw material resources of the Czech Republic
• continuous working out references and reviews for the CGS’s establisher, the Ministry of Environment of the CR, as well as for other central authorities, regional authorities, and lower levels of state control
• monitoring the conditions of the eliminated and secured areas affected by the past mining and mineral processing, namely by course of the CMA Act No. 52/1997 Coll. and its subsequent amendments
• reviewing and assessing pursuant to Art. 6 Subs. 3 Act No. 366/2000 Coll. (Act on Geological Activities), and under Art. 17 of this Act, expert interpretation of the data on protection and exploitation of natural mineral resources, which are part of territorial analytical bases, according to the appropriate provisions of Act No. 183/2006 Coll. or by course of the MMR Act No. 500/2006

Publications for download

• Mineral Commodity Summaries of the Czech Republic
• The Czech Republic mine production and mineral reserves