The protection of the surface flows from the impact of the mine waters of the ore deposit Koporić-Žuta Prlina-Jelakce Šatorica

In this paper there is presented the issue of degradation of the natural balance of the environment, concrete pollution of the mountain rivers in the ore deposits zone as a result of the lead-zinc ores exploitation in the mines of the ore field Koporic-Žuta Prlina-Jelakce-Satorica. Under the actual conditions, when there is no ore exploitation in these sites, the unsatisfied quality mine waters appear on the mine works, on the undermines and run off with no control  and pollute the mountain rivers. In this paper there are showed the syntese of all explorations until today as well as the suggestions, or directions for further research to overcome  present problems.