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2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
9. Conclusions
Author : Renata Dulias
Published in: The Impact of Mining on the Landscape
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
In a thousand-year period of mining in the Upper Silesian Coal Basin, more than 13 billion tonnes of mineral resources and approximately 2–4 billion tonnes of waste rock were extracted from the bedrock. Most of these rock masses (98 %), however, were extracted in the past 100 years, and 94 % of them were associated with the exploitation of coal and stowing sand.