Case study: Historical mining in the Ore mountains

Goals of case study writing

• Demonstrate diversity of natural resources (minerals & other raw materials) – mining possibilities of the region and consequences for development in the historical perspective:
  • Interesting localities for excursions
• Comparative study
  • Comparison of the two perspectives: history vs contemporary mining

Resources

• Database of geological localities http://www.geology.cz/extranet/geodata/databaze/geologicke-lokality (cz)
  • http://lokality.geology.cz/2311
  • http://lokality.geology.cz/2310
  • http://www.geology.cz/app/glok/glok_an.pl, select district Most or some area according to the map below
• Geology of the region http://geologie.vsb.cz/reg_geol_cr/4_kapitola.htm (cz)

Maps

• Czech Geological Service location application http://www.geology.cz/app/ciselniky/lokalizace/
• Geological and geo-scientific maps http://www.geologicke-mapy.cz/
• Geological and geo-scientific maps of the Most region http://www.geologicke-mapy.cz/regiony/okres-CZ0425/
• Map of brown coal mines in Northern Bohemia 1 : 100 000 http://www.geology.cz/extranet/sluzby/vydavatelstvi/mapy/geomapyregionalni
• Maps - Ministry of Environment - http://geoportal.gov.cz/web/guest/home
• geological maps - all Czech Republic 1:50 000 - http://www.gweb.cz/clanky.asp?cmd=show&id=10

Historical mining

• Historical subsurface mining works in the Czech Republic as technical monuments http://www.velebil.net/en/czech-mines/ (en)
• Historical photos - Mining in the Ore Mountains http://www.geology.cz/aplikace/fotoarchiv/fotoarchiv.php?region=29 or http://www.geology.cz/aplikace/fotoarchiv/galerie.php?galerie=25
• History of mining near Jezeří Castle http://litvinov.sator.eu/kategorie/zanikle-obce/jezeri/historie-tezby-zelezne-rudy-u-zamku-jezeri (cz with automatic translation)
• Mine near Jezeří and mining history http://rangiroa.sweb.cz/jezeri/stola.html (cz)
• Illustrations from Wikipedia http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Norbert_Kaiser/mining
• Historical mining in the Czech Republic (whole country) http://geologie.vsb.cz/loziska/loziska/historie.html & literature at the bottom (cz)
• Majer, J.: Rudné hornictví v Čechách, na Moravě a ve Slezsku. Praha: Libri, 2004. 256 s. (cz)

Historical mines

• Mikulášská štola Hora Svaté Kateřiny (cz)
• štola Veselé mysli Hora Svaté Kateřiny (cz)
• štola Kateřinská Hora Svaté Kateřiny(cz)
• Near Měděnec or http://www.krusnohorsky.cz/view.php?cisloclanku=2009100301 (cz)
• Sv.Kryštof mine near Hřebečná (cz)
• Institute of Geophysics http://www.ig.cas.cz/cz/struktura/observatore/gravimetricke-observatore/ (cz, en) - gravity and tidal observatories of the Geophysical Institute, including a complex investigation of the Ore Mountain slopes under Jezeří Castle with the aim of controlling the stability of the slopes of the nearby Czechoslovak Army Mine open-pit coal mine.
  
• New mines near Jezeří (cz)
  

Geopark

• Geopark - all CZ localities http://apdm.cz/file_download/2/CBG_prehled-opernych-lokalit_KKcast.pdf
• Geopark http://www.geopark.cz/ (cz)