This paper presents an approach to dust and noise environmental impact assessment and control in Serbian mine planning theory and practice. Mine planning defines the model of mining operations, production and processing rates, and ore excavation and dumping scheduling, including spatial positioning for all these activities. The planning process then needs to assess the impact of these mining activities on environmental quality. This task can be successfully completed with contemporary models for assessment of suspended particles dispersion and noise propagation. In addition to that, this approach enables verification of the efficiency of suggested protection measures for reduction or elimination of identified impact. A case study of dust and noise management at the Bor copper mine is presented, including the analysis of the efficiency of planned protection measures from dust and noise, within long-term mine planning at the Veliki Krivelj and Cerovo open pits of the Bor copper mine.

Noise emissions are a significant environmental impact caused by the mining industry in all technological phases of surface mining, mineral processing, and waste disposal. This paper presents the role of noise impact assessment and control in large-scale surface mining operations. Mine planning develops the model of mining operations, ore excavation, and waste dumping scheduling and processing rates, including spatial distribution of mining activities. Such a level of mine planning requires an environmental impact assessment study. This can be achieved by applying noise impact assessment models. The described approach can be used to verify the effectiveness of the proposed protection measures to reduce or eliminate the identified negative impacts. This paper presents a case study of environmental noise impact assessment and control at the Serbia Zijin Copper DOO Bor mine, encompassing the analysis of the noise protection measures efficiency within the planning of large-scale mining operations at the open-pit mine Veliki Krivelj.

This paper presents the development of a WebGIS application aimed at providing safe and reliable data needed for reclamation of abandoned mines in national parks and other protected areas in Vojvodina in compliance with existing legal regulations. The geodatabase model for this application has been developed using UML and the CASE tool Microsoft Visio featuring an interface with ArcGIS. The WebGIS application was developed using GeoServer, an open source tool in the Java programming language, with integrated PostgreSQL DB and the possibility of generating and publishing WMS, WFS and KML services. The WebGIS application is publicly available, based on an appropriate central database, which for the first time encompasses all available data on abandoned mines in Vojvodina, and as such may serve as a model for similar databases on the territory of the Republic of Serbia.

Environmental noise constitutes a threat regarding disturbance and deterioration of quality of living. There are numerous sources of environmental noise, among others mine objects, traffic roads etc. In Serbian practice open cast mines are commonly in vicinity of residential areas, which is the case of the Field C open cast coal mine and the Barosevac settlement. More complexity is added to noise management in such conditions through additional noise sources, not directly linked to mine objects and activities, such as local or regional roads. This paper describes an approach to noise management for the purpose of environmental noise impact reduction, from both traffic and industrial sources, related to the project Environmental Improvement Project in Kolubara Mine Basin in Barosevac settlement, as a part of acquisition of new Excavator-belt Conveyor-Stacker (ECS) system.

Modern underground mining, including Serbia, is characterized by three general trends: deeper mines, mechanized mining activities and more rigorous standards of safety and health at work. Ventilation of mines in such conditions is one of the most important components of energy costs, having in mind aircooling requirements, the quality of the mine atmosphere and the required climatic conditions from the aspect of safety and health of workers. The Rulebook of technical norms for underground exploitation of ferrous and non-ferrous raw materials regulates the issue of climate conditions very conservatively and largely out-dated compared to the international experience and even compared to the Serbian norms for the underground exploitation of coal. This paper provides analysis of limits related to working conditions in underground mines, carried out from the aspect of different thermal load and climatic condition indices in different countries, and comparison with the solutions of Serbian regulations. After reviewing and analyzing world experiences and domestic practices, it has been proposed to amend the Rulebook so that climate conditions in underground mines of ferrous and non-ferrous raw materials are evaluated through effective temperatures, which will enable the more economical exploitation, while ensuring the necessary level of safety and health of workers.

In modern mining complexes, the amount of available information on the performance of occupational health and safety systems is constantly increasing. Measurement and evaluation of system performance, as well as the need to develop a better measurement model, arises primarily due to necessity of the improvement of occupational health and safety. The scope of the model aiming to maturity analysis of safety performance measurement, which was applied in the research whose results are presented in this paper, included the performance measurement practice, the commitment and culture of performance measurement and the use of measurement results. In addition to the three basic topics mentioned, an assessment related to the state of the occupational health and safety system was added. As a result of the application of the proposed model, an overall maturity score was obtained. This paper presents the results of the maturity analysis of occupational health and safety system performance measurement in the company TE-KO "Kostolac", which identifies areas that will be given special attention in the future in terms of improving the management of occupational health and safety.