The study provides a methodology for 3D model processing of historic mining landscape, and its features as mining digital cultural heritage with the possibility of using new visualization means in mining tourism. Historic mining landscapes around the towns of Gelnica (eastern Slovakia) had been chosen for the case study. The underground mining spaces around Gelnica, which are currently inaccessible to clients of mining tourism, were processed using 3D modeling. Historically, correctly processed 3D models of mining spaces enable customers of mining tourism to virtually travel not only in space, but what is most important, in time as well. The up-to-date computer-generated virtual mining heritage in the form of 3D models can be viewed via the Internet from different perspectives and angles. The models created this way are currently the latest trend in developing mining tourism.

Historical maps represent a unique and irreplaceable source of information about the history of a country, be it large (historical) regions, individual geomorphological units or specifically defined sites. Using a methodologically correct, critical historical analysis, old maps provide both the horizontal and vertical analysis of a landscape and its transformation in different time periods. These maps represent some of the oldest, but relatively easily accessible, historical pictorial documents (plausibly) depicting historical landscapes. This study provides the methodology for processing and georeferencing old mine maps with the possibility of their further use for the purposes of mining tourism. The 1696 Marsigli mine map has been chosen for the case study in question. It depicts a cross-section of the copper mines in Smolník and shows in detail the process of cementation water mining. Through an analysis and a detailed study, two-dimensional parts of a georeferenced historical map have been plotted in Google Earth’s three-dimensional space.

Prispevek se osredotoča na prepoznavanje razvojnega potenciala naravnih vrednot kot gradnikov geoturizma na severozahodu Slovaške (Kysuce). Naravne vrednote so predstavljene kot preostanki geološke in geomorfološke preteklosti v današnji pokrajini. Ključne naravne vrednote so kronološko sistematizirane in analizirane. Avtorji ugotavljajo, da je tovrstna pokrajina zaradi avtentičnosti in velike doživljajske zmožnosti izjemno zanimiva za geoturiste.

The article deals with two important sites of the copper cementation process in historical mine deposits, namely Spania Dolina and Smolník in Slovakia. It analyzes these two historical mining sites from several points of view, such as their significance at the time, applied technologies and philosophers interested on it. For comparison, simple presentation methods were used based on graphic and animation software. The methods show historical mining in a broader context making it possible to combine its developments with other historical facts. The paper used presentation methods for comparing technologies and knowledge about cementation waters in two Slovak historical mining locations - Smolník and Spania Dolina. // Artykuł przedstawia dwa ważne, historyczne ośrodki górnictwa rud metali: Dolinę Szpanią i Smolnik na Słowacji, w których zastosowano cementacyjną metodę odzysku miedzi. Oba ośrodki historycznego górnictwa analizowano z różnych punktów widzenia, np. ze względu na ich znaczenie w porządku chronologicznym, zastosowane technologie i zainteresowanie ze strony uczonych filozofów. Do celów porównawczych zastosowano metody prostej prezentacji oparte na oprogramowaniu graficznym i animacyjnym. Takie metody pozwoliły na ukazanie historycznego górnictwa rud w szerszym kontekście, tak by połączyć opis jego rozwoju z innymi faktami historycznymi. Zastosowano metody prezentacyjne do porównania technologii i wiedzy na temat roztworów cementacyjnych w obu słowackich historycznych okręgach górniczych: Smolniku i Dolinie Szpaniej.