Mining sites in Serbia - Bor and Majdanpek |
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 Tailings deposit at Bor (total: 450 million tons) |
 Seepage water from Bor tailings running into Borska "black river" (receives effluents from mine, metallurgical plant and communal sewage). |
 Confluence of "black river" (pH 2-4) with greenish Krivelj river (pH 5-7; polluted by mine and tailings waters, running into Timok river (border with BG) |
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 Majdanpek: Deposit of 7 mio. tons tailings at Saska potok (dam collapsed in 1996) |
 The Majdanpek copper mine pit. |
 Pek creek is diverted around the mine pit; at right polluted by seepage water from another mine. |
| Mining sites in Bosnia & Hercegovina: Srebrenica and Vares |
 Srebrenica's Sase mine (lead and zinc) waters are polluting Majdanski stream and small-scale farming along-side. |
 Mine waters from acid rock drainage emerge at a valley slope upstream the tailings pond. |
 Talings deposit (over 50 m high) of Sase mine. |
 Small farm at the edge of polluted tailings. |
Vares mine area near Sarajevo |
 The Vares-Smreka ore mine, once the largest open pit in the former Yugoslavia, is used today as a fishing pond. |
 The milling plant of Smreka mine (in the back) was destroyed during the Bosnian war. |
 Veovaca tailing pond near Vares is considered a risk site: Cracks show that the dam is not stable. |
 Veovaca tailings dam: erosion gulleys and sink holes on the downstream side |
 Dozens of toads crawl up the Veovaca tailings dam. |
 The abandoned Przici lead and zinc mine is upstream the Veovaca pond. |
