223-0909/02 – Elimination of Mining Activities Effects (HGF)

The consequences of mining activities may be diverse and vary both the manner and extent of mining as well as interventions in the landscape, infrastructure and human settlements. Student will gain theoretical and practical knowledge for designing and implementing the reconstruction of the surface area (landscape), but also insight into mitigating the effects of socio-demographic. An integral part is also re-use of mine brownfields.

Mining activities in the Middle Ages has a vested impact on cities and their surrounding areas where the mining was done or in progress. The consequences of mining activities can then be reflected both in the actual implementation of mining, as well as the time after extraction. The course is divided into several thematic sections. The first is the impact of deep mining in the Ostrava-Karvina mining district with a focus onrecalmation of heaps and the reconstruction of the country needed to maintain their functions (for example, affected rivers). Another section is devoted mainly surface mining in the Most Sokolov coal basin and examples of successful regeneration. A separate chapter is also the consequences of mining in the form of piles of burning or pollution of surface waterways. Mining activity is also fraught with demands for labor, or their surplus at the termination of mining (examples of socio-economic impacts on some of the historic mining towns) Mining succession also leaves a number of operating buildings that are becoming so called brownfields. These areas are also needed to pay attention, because their recovery is a significant contributor to change the image of the entire region.

1] Brownfields Handbook – cross-disciplinary education tool focused on the issue of brownfields regeneration – http://fast10.vsb.cz/bribast [2] Martinec, P. and comp.: Termination of underground coal mining and its impact on th environment, ANGRAM s.r.o. 2006