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activities, standards and habits of citizens,
as well as the availability of energy resources
and economic - energy conditions
in the environment.
Because of known circumstances in
the past, Serbia is an example of the country,
which is forced in the short term to
harmonize not only energy development
with the business economic development,
but development of energy production
sector with the sectors of energy consumption
in order to achieve higher levels
of socio-economic development. Oil
shales, a few years ago, fell in the "unconventional"
fossil fuels, and are of worldwide
very little explored.
Interest in oil shale and testing capabilities
their use in our country dates back
to before the I World War. After the War,
research was done on several occasions,
but not systematically, so it has not been
carried out to the end.
OIL SHALE IN SERBIA
Site researches of oil shale in Serbia
are very small. On the territory of Serbia
oil shale sites were discovered in the following
regions: Niš (the Aleksinac Basin,
regions village Bovan and Prugovac,
Bubušnica and Kosanica Basin), Zaječar
(Timok zone between Knjaževac and Boljevac),
South Moravic (the Vranje basin),
Kraljevo (the Kruševac and Čačak-
Kraljevo basin) and Podrinje - Kolubara
(the Valjevo-Mionica basin).
Today, only for the oil shale deposit
around Aleksinac we can say it is better
researched than others, thanks to investigative
work that are undertaken for the
production of coal, and thereby collected
data on oil shale, on the basis of prospecting
the drillholes. However, even these
data are not sufficient for final evaluation
and exploitation of geological reserves
and their categorization.
Reserves of oil shale in Serbia, according
to estimates, are approximately 8-10
billion tons, where the Aleksinac deposit
is the most researched. Large reserves of
coal in our country are not available due
to the economic or technical reasons.
Proven coal reserves that are not suitable
for surface exploitation amounts exceeding
500 million tons, and oil shale are only
in the Aleksinac deposit, over 2 billion
tons. [1]
AIM OF RESEARCH
For the currently known oil shale reserves
in our country, put us to the task to
determine what is the energy and raw potential,
with which we can count on a certain
level of current technological reserves,
especially those to be expected in
the future.
In order to elaborate the possibility for
industrial use of oil shales while bearing
in mind the fact that our country has a
considerable oil shale reserves, and that
the coal reserves in our mining – the energy
plant ''Kolubara" and "Kostolac" limited,
made the possibility of simultaneous
analysis of coal and oil shale from the
Aleksinac basin.
RESEARCH AREA
The Aleksinac deposit of brown coal
and oil shale overtakes the area between
the River Morava and the South Moravica
offers directly from the town of Aleksinac,
in the direction of NNW, the length of 10
km and covers the area of about 20 km 2 .
It is one of the few in the world, where
the layers of oil shale stored together with
brown coal, in floor and overlie main coal
layer. In 1883, the exploitation of brown
coal was dominated by the combined,
room-pillar mining methods. Depending
on the mining-geological conditions of
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