Acta Montanistica Slovaca

Acta Montanistica Slovaca publishes high quality articles on basic and applied research in the following fields:geology and geological survey;mining;Earth resources;underground engineering and geotechnics;mining mechanization, mining transport, deep hole drilling;ecotechnology and mineralurgy;process control, automation and applied informatics in raw materials extraction, utilization and processing;other similar fields.Acta Montanistica Slovaca is the only scientific journal of this kind in Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe.The submitted manuscripts should contribute significantly to the international literature, even if the focus can be regional. Manuscripts should cite the extant and relevant international literature, should clearly state what the wider contribution is (e.g. a novel discovery, application of a new technique or methodology, application of an existing methodology to a new problem), and should discuss the importance of the work in the international context.