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In a thousand-year period of mining in the Upper Silesian Coal Basin , more than 13 billion tonnes of mineral resources and approximately 2–4 billion tonnes of waste rock were extracted from the bedrock. Most of these rock masses (98 %), however, were extracted in the past 100 years, and 94 % of them were associated with the exploitation of coal and stowing sand.
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Dulias, R. (2016). Conclusions. In: The Impact of Mining on the Landscape. Environmental Science and Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29541-1_9
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