3. Slovak mining road

Among the main objectives of the Association of Mining Clubs and Guilds of Slovakia and one of the reasons why the Association was conceived in the period of 2004-06 in the relatively advanced period of the decline of ore mining as co-operation of clubs and guilds in the mining regions is the preservation of the mining heritage and active mining activity. It ought to be projected into presentations of technical level, education and mining science, metallurgy and coinage in the territory of Slovakia and in its previous state structures, preservation of mining history and maintenance of mining traditions and customs, preservation and revitalization of mining technical works in Slovakia. It is only logical that, in addition to one of the statutory obligations to terminate the mining activity 'liquidation and securing', specified and fulfilled in the program of ore mining mines declared by the government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic in 1990 and approved by the Government of the Slovak Republic, 1991, whose final fulfilment is to return mainly the surface of mining operations to the original state for further civilian use, or reclamation as 'pure nature' is, on the other hand, an initiative to preserve and promote the idea, that not all of the recession programme deserves destruction and disappearance from the surface of the earth. These mining, technological, transport, water and other construction works incorporated in the secondary transformed landscape create in many smaller and larger areas of the mining regions an organic whole with the landscape and document the history of our territory materialized in several cases at the level of the cultural heritage of Slovakia as well as in the lists of National Cultural Monuments. (authors)