Along with the Drava Valley (about 400 km2), chemical analyses of 160 soil samples and stream sediments have been performed in order to determine a critical soil pollution as a consequence of river transport. The Valley has been a place of mining and smelting activities since the Antique period that reaches its maximum in the middle of last century. Long lasting operation of mining and smelting (such as Bleiberg/Plajberg in Austria, Cave del Predil/Rabelj in Italy and Mežica in Slovenia) left high levels of Cadmium, Zinc and Lead in alluvial sediments, only in Slovenia is 85 km2 of alluvial sediments is critically polluted.
F.30 Professional assessment of the situation
COBISS.SI-ID: 2597973Basically, the major goals of GeoZS are strengthening an international scientific cooperation network and partnership with other former Yugoslav countries, improvement of material research standards, exploiting the research and technological demonstration results as well promoting the GeoZS to regional centers of excellence. Our researches are mainly focused on mining and metallurgical processes which are obviously the biggest destructors of environment: B&H (Ironworks Zenica; Ironworks Vareš and Fe mines - Smreka, Droškovac, Brezik, Pb-Zn-Ba mine Veovača); Slovenia and Croatia (the Drava valley; Experimental geochemical map of Slovenia and Croatia); Kosovo (Pb- Zn mine Trepča and Pb smelter Zvečan–Kosovska Mitrovica); Macedonia (Cu mine Bučim, Pb-Zn mines SASA and Toranica, As-Sb-Tl mine Alšar), Pb smelter Veles; FeNi – Kavadarci; thermoelectric power plants (Kičevo and Bitola), alluvial deposits of the Vardar River, Skopje); Serbia (Mine and flotation Bor).
B.03 Paper at an international scientific conference
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