Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The Trepča Mines (Albanian: Miniera e Trepçës, Serbian: Рудници Трепча, Rudnici 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 socialist Yugoslavia. In the 1930s, a British company gained the rights to exploit the Stari Trg mine close to Mitrovica. After World War II, under socialist management, the company expanded dramatically.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.However, with the closure of several mines and factories in the late 1980s and 1990s, the Trepça 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: Belo Brdo, Crnac and Zuta Prlina Middle Chain: Stari Trg/Stantrg Southern Chain: Ajvalija/Hajvali, Novo Brdo/Novobrde and Kisnica.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 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.Based on official reports from Germany, USA, Australia, and China in 2009, Kosovo is the 5th in the world for lignite reserves.. }
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- Trepča_Mines abstract "The Trepča Mines (Albanian: Miniera e Trepçës, Serbian: Рудници Трепча, Rudnici 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 socialist Yugoslavia. In the 1930s, a British company gained the rights to exploit the Stari Trg mine close to Mitrovica. After World War II, under socialist management, the company expanded dramatically.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.However, with the closure of several mines and factories in the late 1980s and 1990s, the Trepça 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: Belo Brdo, Crnac and Zuta Prlina Middle Chain: Stari Trg/Stantrg Southern Chain: Ajvalija/Hajvali, Novo Brdo/Novobrde and Kisnica.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 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.Based on official reports from Germany, USA, Australia, and China in 2009, Kosovo is the 5th in the world for lignite reserves.".