Influences magnesite exploitation to landscape ecology

Negative influences of mining underground activities on ecology of landscape environment are presented. Mining damages on the earth surface and building structures are investigated at the magnesite mineral deposit of the mine region Ko ice-Bankov in Slovakia. Subsidence development is modelling to prediction and minimize of mining damages. The need to control deformations has stimulated extensive research on the topic of strata movement prediction in the vicinity of mine workings. In an effort to establish reliable and accurate prediction techniques dealing with the extent, magnitude and development of the characteristic parameters of surface movement, empirical, analytical and numerical methods are proposed and applied in the mine region Ko ice-Bankov. This paper reviews some of the objectives and accomplishments of a comprehensive subsidence research programme conduced by Department of Geodesy and Geophysics, Faculty of Mining, Ecology, Process Control and Geotechnologies of the Technical University of Ko ice during the past twenty years.