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ABSTRACT
The article addresses the proposal for remediation and reclamation of quarry operations in the Czech and Slovak Republic, and it is the subject of the implementation of the reclamation works in areas affected by mining. This proposal is an example of solving the reclamation works, including the calculation of the cost of remediation and reclamation of agricultural land and forest land.
Remediation and reclamation includes all work intended to eliminate landscape damage as well as damage caused to the land of natural and legal entities due to mining activities (Act No. 44/1988 Coll. On the protection and utilization of mineral resources (the Mining Act), as amended). These works include the reclamation of land under special regulations on protection of agricultural and forest land.
The ultimate goal of reclamation work is the creation of terrain relief under the plan of remediation and reclamation, which is supposed to be environmentally balanced and economically valuable environment required by social needs. Therefore, in addition to land and forests, the result of reclamation work is new quality of lithosphere, hydrosphere, relief, pedosphere, atmosphere, etc. Besides the improvement of ecological and socio-economic conditions, improving territorial and technical conditions also represents an important result of the reclamation work. They are both crucial for assessing proposals of individual types of reclamation under the current plan for opening, preparation and mining. In particular, the need for careful selection of proposal and implementation requires the population in the affected areas, as well as the need for industrial and agricultural production. Proposals will be supported by calculations according to indicative orientation prices in the pricelist for reclamation issued in 2016 by the organization Cenekon s.r.o. Bratislava.
Keywords: Remediation, Reclamation, Landscape Damage
INTRODUCTION
The level and sophistication of every country has been and will be judged by what it has created to satisfy the respective generation, and also what it has created or could create for future generations. This applies to standard of living, culture and the protection and creation of environment. This question is particularly prevalent in the restoration of land affected by mining and quarrying.
Each opening of commercial mineral deposits and its gradual exploitation in the time horizon of decades (in some quarries even more than a hundred years) is interference in...