Title: Montánne podzemie južných svahov Ďumbierskych Tatier do konca 18. storočia
Mining underground on the south hillsides of Ďumbierske Tatras Mt. until the end of the 18th century
Author: Hronček Pavel
DOI: 10.17846/SHN.2019.23.1.43-66
Source: Studia Historica Nitriensia, year: 2019, vol.: 23, number: 1, pages: 43-66
Abstract: The study presents the history of excavation – the formation of the mining underground on the southern slopes of the second highest mountain in the Slovakia Ďumbierske Tatras Mt. An extreme combination of landscape features has created a difficult environment for medieval miners, so they had some problems to excavation deeper mines. On the base of terrain mining relicts we identified the first underground mining spaces from the 13th century. The real development of deep mining was started in the 16th century in the Ďumbierske Tatras Mt. The excavation of the underground spaces by manual disconnection and deep mining too stagnated in the end of the 18th century. In the studied area we identified (from the Vážna valley on the West, to the Štiavnička valley on the east) 32 mining localities with excavated historic mining underground.
Keywords: Historical Mining; Excavation; Underground Spaces; Deep Mining; Ďumbierske Tatras Mt.;
Language: Slovak
Publication order reference: Technická univerzita Košice, Fakulta baníctva, ekológie, riadenia a geotechnológií, Ústav zemských zdrojov, Oddelenie geo a montánneho turizmu, B. Němcovej 32, 042 00 Košice, mail: pavel.hroncek@tuke.sk