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Folia Geographica 2014, 56/1, pp. 90-100

VPLYV ŤAŽBY URÁNOVÝCH RÚD NA ŽIVOTNÉ PROSTREDIE V KOŠICKOM KRAJI

THE IMPACT OF MINING URANIUM ORES ON THE ENVIRONMENT IN THE KOSICE REGION

Eva MICHAELI A*, Vladimír SOLÁR B, Monika IVANOVÁ C, Danica FAZEKAŠOVÁ D

Received: November 10, 2013 | Revised: December 20, 2013 | Accepted: February 10, 2014

A* University of Prešov, 17. novembra 1, 080 01 Prešov, Slovakia
eva.michaeli@unipo.sk (corresponding author)
B University of Prešov, 17. novembra 1, 080 01 Prešov, Slovakia
vladimir.solar@unipo.sk
C University of Prešov, 17. novembra 1, 080 01 Prešov, Slovakia
monika.ivanova@unipo.sk
D University of Prešov, 17. novembra 1, 080 01 Prešov, Slovakia
danica.fazekasova@unipo.sk


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Abstract
At the mining over many centuries the mineral reserves especially of metallurgical and precious metals in Slovakia have exhausted. Their residues are now only mineralogical significance. The exceptions are bearings of uranium ore, where extensive geological surveys and smaller mining began on the Slovakia until in the year 1948 in the Novoveská Huta. In the last decade last century, the mining in the context attenuation of the mining industry was stopped. The bearings of uranium ore are occur in the arc of the Central Carpathians in the rocks of the Paleozoic in the Permian formations from the Nové Mesto nad Váhom after the South Zemplín (Rojkovič, Novotný 1993). About the ore of uranium on the Slovakia they have interested foreign companies and most of the exploration licenses is under the control of the companies from Canada and Australia, which exploring the bearings of uranium ore since 2005. The expanse of exploration areas is today more than 300 km2. The exploration of the uranium bearings met resistance of the local governments and citizens of the concerned areas. They fear that foreign investors do not enter into exploration projects only from the aspect of mapping geological reserves of uranium ore and do not intend uranium mine. Aim of this paper is to give a characteristic of selected bearings of uranium and point out environmental and functional and spatial implications eventual mining of uranium ore.

Key words
Bearings of Uranium Ore, Mining of Uranium Ores, Environment

SUMMARY

THE IMPACT OF MINING URANIUM ORES ON THE ENVIRONMENT IN THE KOSICE REGION
Everywhere in the world, after extraction of uranium shall remain the unquantifiable damage, degraded ecosystems, contaminated water sources, weakened immunity the inhabitant, and a high incidence of carcinogenic of diseases. Uranium mining is profitable only mining companies. On the inhabitants in the region of mining has an adverse impact. Guarantee the safety of uranium mining is impossible. Reserved deposits of uranium in Kosice I Jahodná – Kurišková are under the Mining Act, The Act on the Protection and Use of Mineral Resources No. 558/2001 Coll. the protected deposit area because they are in a state geological exploration. At the Ministry of the Environment SR despite the protests of citizens and nongovernmental organizations was prolonged exploration period for Company Ludovica – Energy Ltd. on the locality of Jahodná – Kurišková to 19. 04. 2015 m. Exploration is underway for 8 years. Preferential right to determine the mining area has an organization that has the specified territory for exploration and it performs at its own expense. Preferential right may be exercised by the application to the determination of the extraction area within six months after assessment and approval of the final report containing the calculation of reserves bearing by geological survey. On protected deposit area in Novoveska Huta was mining area Main Mining Office in Banská Štiavnica intended.

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