ABSTRACT
The refuse stock-piles formed as a product of the coal exploitation represent an “ideal” place for laying off communal waste. Flexible mining technology enables depositing of toxic material as well if safety measures have been performed. The examinations of the physical-mechanical features of the discarded rock material and of hydrogeological conditions have shown that even larger masses of the waste might be deposited without endangering mining technology. With the technology adapted to the discarding of rock masses, the conditions for continuous laying off communal waste have been created. The example of the waste depot formed on the mining object is given by the brown coal mine Mostar, P.K. “Vihovići” where during the Native war an uncontrolled depot of waste occurred and which asks for an urgent sanation.
