An analysis of the external-market prices of antimony from the viewpoint of shutting down the exploitation of antimony deposits in the area of West Carpathians
Title:
An analysis of the external-market prices of antimony from the viewpoint of shutting down the exploitation of antimony deposits in the area of West Carpathians
Author:
Slavkovský Jozef
Appeared in:
Acta Montanistica Slovaka
Paging:
Volume 2 (1997) nr. 4 pages 351-356
Year:
1997
Contents:
On the evidence of general knowledge about exploiting deposits of antimony ores in the field of West Carpathian Mountains but also of a brief evaluation of the commodity´s world production and the analysis of its prices, a recent view of fast, often rash, process of damping and liquidation of this mineral raw material in Slovakia is outlined in the paper. Restructuring our national economy in newly-created conditions of the so-called market economy at the beginning of nineties, exploitation and processing of inland antimony ores were re-evaluated under the influence of short-term evaluation of the antimony´s external-price development, just coming to a crisis. Consequently, due to the continuously reducting appropriation, the ores were considered unexploitable. In such a way, they were liquidated and the next verification of their reserves by geological prospecting stopped. Just the period of the interruption of exploiting and prospecting Sb-deposits should be used for a theoretical treatment of documents that could elucidate the problem of the role of Sb-deposits in the metallogenesis of West Carpathians but also of their further perspective and possible utilization in future.
Publisher:
Technical University of Kosice, the Faculty of Mining, Ecolo
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