Geological factors influencing the possibilities of deformations in the shafts of the Legnica-Głogów Copper Area (LGOM)

Abstract

On 23$^{rd}$ March 1957 the information appeared that in the Sieroszowice region copper rich shale had been discovered. Probably nobody realized how difficult the conditions of copper ores exploitation would be. On 4$^{th}$ April 1959 the team lead by Jan Wyżykowski presented the first geologic documentation of the Lubin-Sieroszowice deposit. Based on the results from 24 boreholes, the reserves of the deposit were estimated as more than one billion tons of the ore (Błądek et al. 2005). Decision to build a mining enterprise, consisting of four mines, was taken immediately.