ABSTRACT
The investment mining project is preceded by a number of administrative and political processes, and also by the lobbies that a potential investor must undertake in order to allow access to raw material reserves on a particular deposit. These processes include some “necessary environmental practices” that are a standard part of the preparation of a new mining project when it is introduced into the implementation phase. These may be for potential investors or multinational investment
1 MINING OF MINERALS AND SUPPORT OF THE STATE RAW MATERIAL POLICY
Reliable setting of the state raw materials policy (SRMP) is very problematic in Slovakia’s existing social and economic conditions. In Slovakia, there is a long-term failure to prepare a rational and practical concept of raw material policy, which would allow the realization of a selected prospective mining project. Frequently inconceivable legislative constraints shift the competence of the mining sector into almost inconceivable situations. Nevertheless, the Raw Material Policy of Slovakia represents the most appropriate tool for assessing the significance and usability of specific types of mineral resources located in our territory. Although the Slovak Republic is to a larger extent only “the poor owner of minor sources of minerals”, there are also economically significant sources of raw minerals in our territory. In the long run, uranium and talc, can bring significant economic profit, while optimally adjusting socio-economic relationships and healthy economic and environmental system are predominantly prospective for mining. The particular importance is the economic potential of talc deposit, which is expected to have a more pervasive international penetration of world’s raw materials markets.
