CHEMICAL FOOTPRINT OF SERBIAN LIGNITE IN THE ENVIRONMENT AND IN TIME – DOES IT EXIST? (a brief guide through time and space)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.30544/rudar3Keywords:
lignite, soil, sediments, chemical footprint, time footprintAbstract
The thermal energy capacities of the Electric Power Company of Serbia (EPS) are based on lignite, which is concentrated in two large coal/mining basins. The first is the Kostolac-Kovin basin with a total area of about 320 km2 and has about 5.7 billion tons of geological resources and lignite reserves. Coal mining has been going on for more than 150 years. Also, the Kolubara basin has an exploitable area of about 200 km2 and a total of about 4.1 billion tons of geological resources and lignite reserves. Coal mining has been going on for more than 130 years. In total, in previous years, EPS had almost 10B t of geological resources and lignite reserves in both coal mining areas. Of this, a good part of about 1.9B t has already been mined. And furthermore, there are huge amounts of coal left to be mined. In this work, we deal with the geochemical characteristics of coal seams in both coal basins and perform a comparative analysis with selected examples from Serbia and the World. What we as authors and you as readers are most interested in is whether heavy metals from coal cause a chemical footprint on the immediate or distant environment and whether they leave a mark in time. We will deal with this issue in the following chapters.
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