The Choice of the Technical Liquidation of Underground Mine Workings

Authors: Dvořáček, J; Štěrba, J Download Paper

DOI https://doi.org/10.36487/ACG_repo/605_18

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Dvořáček, J & Štěrba, J 2006, 'The Choice of the Technical Liquidation of Underground Mine Workings', in AB Fourie & M Tibbett (eds), Mine Closure 2006: Proceedings of the First International Seminar on Mine Closure, Australian Centre for Geomechanics, Perth, pp. 257-260, https://doi.org/10.36487/ACG_repo/605_18



Abstract:
The mining legislation in the Czech Lands is more than seven centuries old and the development of mining has been marked by ups and downs during the whole period. The 1990s were characterised by the closing down and liquidation of underground mines, which, under new conditions, failed to cope with the economic and environmental criteria introduced. The fast initial liquidation of underground mines led to surface faults and destruction of mine workings, collapses of shaft tops, escape of methane to the surface and resultant explosions, and contamination of mine water discharging from or pumped out of flooded mine workings, as a result of improper liquidation of the mines. The fact of the matter has prompted the state mining authority to seek the method of technical liquidation of underground mines, which would be a final solution to the issue without any impact on the society or the environment.

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