Economic geology | Project 6355
Security construction control
of old mining works
Investigator: Czech Geological Survez
Responsible project investigator: RNDr. Petr Rambousek, ČGS
Coinvestigator: Czech Geological Survey – Geofond, Kostelní 26, 170 06 Prague 7
Responsible project coinvestigator : RNDr. Vít Štrupl, ČGS – Geofond
Other coinvestigators:
RNDr. Michal Poňavič, ČGS
RNDr. Josef Večeřa, CGS
RNDr. Pavel Šír, CGS – Geofond
Ing. Anna Horáková, CGS – Geofond
Abstract: The old mining works according to the Czech Mining Act is a legal term for an orphan mining site. The Ministry of Environment is responsible for public security of these works. The security construction of the old mining work must have periodical control system, which could not be provided by present mining company for long time. The Ministry of Environment delegated the Czech Geological Survey and Czech Geological Survey – Geofond for the pilot project, which brings apart from field revisions of the old mining works the new methodology that fulfills the mining directions and security for people.
Keywords: mining risks, old mining works, Mining Act, methodology, database processing, state body