page_title: Trepča Mines
section_title: Overview
hierarchical_section_title: Trepča Mines / Overview
caption_attribution_description: English: inside The Trepca Mine
context_page_description: The Trepça Mines is a large industrial complex in Kosovo, located 9 km northeast of Mitrovica. The mine is located on the southern slopes of the Kopaonik mountain, between the peaks of Crni Vrh and Majdan 1,268 m, and it is Europe's largest lead-zinc and silver ore mine.
  With up to 23,000 employees, Trepça was once one of the biggest companies in 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 further expanded.
context_section_description: The enterprise known as Trepça was a conglomerate of 40 mines and factories, located mostly in Kosovo but also in locations in 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 mine, Crnac mine and Žuta Prlina
  Middle Chain: Stari Trg mine
  Southern Chain: Hajvalia mine, Novo Brdo mine and Kišnica mine
  This is all that remains 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, which translates as three million tonnes of lead, two million tonnes of zinc and 4,500 tonnes of silver.
caption: Inside The Trepça Mine
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