GEOTOUR & IRSE 2012.pdf - Fakulta BERG - TUKE

Salgótarján, 04. – 06. October 2012
THE TELKIBÁNYA FIELD TRAINING EDUCATIONAL PARK IN WORKING ORDER
Hartai Éva & Németh Norbert
Institute of Mineralogy and Geology, University of Miskolc, 3515 Miskolc-Egyetemváros
e-mail: foldshe@uni-miskolc.hu, foldnn@uni-miskolc.hu
ABSTRACT
The Institute of Mineralogy and Geology (University of Miskolc), the BERG Faculty (Technical University
of Końice) and the Local Authority of Telkibánya established the Field Training Educational Park in 2010.
The park is based on the diverse geology and the gold-silver ore mineralization around Telkibánya, on the
remnants of the ancient mining and on the existing touristic facilities (including a museum of mining) of the
locality. It consists of an educational centre attached to a youth hostel inside the village, an educational trail
in the Veres-víz mining area and an underground demonstration site in the conserved Mária Adit. The park
can be used by student groups for education, by professionals for meetings, and also by civilians for tourism,
widening the offers at Telkibánya.
Introduction
Telkibánya is an ancient mining town in the Tokaj Mts (also referred by geographers as Zemplén
Mountains), NE Hungary, close to the Slovakian border and the town Końice. It is surrounded by
forest-covered hills with outstanding medieval and later objects of industrial history (adits, shafts,
remnants of processing plants etc). Mining activity produced gold and silver from the veins of an
epithermal mineralization, which is still the potential target of prospecting projects. The village is
frequented recently by tourists, with several accommodations and recreational facilities. There is
also a museum dedicated to the history of mining and industry together with the wildlife and the
minerals in the building of a former porcelain manufacture.
In 2004–2005 a feasibility study of a common Hungarian-Slovakian field educational centre was
worked out in the frame of a PHARE CBC project lead by the Institute of Mineralogy and Geology,
University of Miskolc, in which educational programs were proposed to realize in the mining area
including the underground and open-pit mines. The partners of the institute were the BERG Faculty,
Technical University of Końice and Telkibánya Local Authority. Based on this feasibility study a
proposal for the realization was submitted and supported by the HUSK Cross-border Co-operation
Program 2007–2013. The project was implemented in 2009-2010. In this article the facilities of the
Educational Park are briefly introduced. The recent knowledge about the geology, mineralization
and mining of Telkibánya was summarized in a volume of the Publications of the University of
Miskolc in 2009, edited by the authors of the present text; in the recent paper mainly the articles of
this publication are referred.
The natural and historic background: geology and mining of Telkibánya
The Tokaj Mountains are built up by volcanic rocks of Miocene age (formed 14-10 million years
ago) such as andesite, dacite and rhyolite (Fig. 1). The thickness of the volcanic mass is cca. 3000
m. Similarly to the recent volcanoes, the volcanic complex is built up by altering lava flows and
pyroclastics. The volcanic activity lasted for about five million years, in three major phases,
partially on dry land, partially in the sea. During the volcanism sediments like clay and pebbles
were also deposited. As a result of the hydrothermal alteration of the rhyolitic tuff, „noble clay‟
deposits were also exploited e. g. at Füzérradvány (Gyarmati 1977, Zelenka et al. 2012).
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