Forgotten constructions erected for mining and salt-works activities in Zlatá Baňa

摘要

Village Zlatá Baňa is known for the mining activities for gold, silver, mercury and antimony in the past. This article is devoted not to mining activities but to forgotten 2 dams, which were erected on the Delňa brook. The first was constructed above Zlatá Baňa from wood in 1691 and does not exist presently. The second one was erected beneath Zlatá Baňa between 1802 – 1807 from stone and cement mortar. It exists up to this day but it is not working. The mentioned dams enabled to create water reservoirs. The first one enabled the water transport of wood trunksfrom ?latá Baňa to So?ná Baňa in 1691 for a mining output of a salt-stone (or stone-salt). In the years 1807-1917, water from the second reservoir enabled the water transport of wood by a wooden flume 18,9 km long from Zlatá Baňa to the salt-works in Solivar. The mentioned dams and their water reservoirs enabled the high economical effectivity of the mining output of salt and salt-production of the salt-works in Solivar.