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The Trepca Mines (, (セルビア語:Рудник Трепча)/''Rudnik Trepča'') is a large industrial complex in Kosovo, located in Mitrovica. With up to 23,000 employees, Trepča was once one of the biggest companies in Yugoslavia. In the 1930s, a British company gained the rights to exploit the Stanterg mine close to Mitrovica. After World War II, under socialist management, the company further expanded. == General Information == The enterprise known as Trepča was a conglomerate of 40 mines and factories, located mostly in Kosovo but also in other locations in Serbia and Montenegro. But the heart of its operations, and the source of most of its raw material, is the vast mining complex to the east of Mitrovica in the north of Kosovo, famous since Roman times.〔("TREPCA: Making Sense of the Labyrinth-ICG Balkans Report N° 82, 26 November 1999- Retrieved 2/24/2013" )〕 However, with the closure of several mines and factories in the late 1980s and 1990s, the Trepča mining complex in Kosovo now comprises only seven lead and zinc mines, three concentrators, one smelter, and one zinc plant. Mines are categorized according to their geographic location: * Northern Chain: Bardhas/Belo Brdo, Zias/Crnac and Verdhëzas/Zuta Prlina * Middle Chain: Stanterg/Stari Trg * Southern Chain: Hajvali/Ajvalija, Artana/Novo Brdo and Kishnica.〔Trepca Kosovo under UNMIK Administration, 2005, Summary Description of the Lead Zinc Silver Resources and the Trepča Mines in Kosovo〕 The mines now are only what stands of the huge complex that during the 1980s employed 20,000 workers, and accounted for 70% of all Yugoslavia’s mineral wealth.〔("The Trepça mining complex: How Kosovo’s spoils were distributed by Paul Stuart 28 June 2002" )〕 The mines still have a reserve of 60.5 million tonnes of ore grading 4.96% lead, 3.3% zinc and 74.4 gr/tonne silver, thus resulting three million tonnes of lead, two million tonnes of zinc and 4,500 tonnes of silver.〔http://www.spathfluor.com/_open/open_us/us_op_mines/us_trepca_kosovo_mine.htm "THE TREPCA MINE - by Jean Feraud- Retrieved 2/23/2013".〕 Based on official reports from Germany, USA, Australia, and China in 2009, Kosovo is the 5th in the world for lignite reserves.〔("CNN World Report 14–17 March, 2009- Retrieved 2/23/2013" )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Trepča Mines」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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