| Position: | Associate professor |
| Room: | G-426A |
| Phone: | +421 2 9014 9277 |
| e-mail: | peter.sottnik@uniba.sk |
| Publications | list of publications |
Scientific interests
- Impact of mining activities on the environment, geological survey and risk analysis of environmental burdens, remediation technologies, treatment of mining and technological waters, exploration and extraction of minerals, environmental minerals and their use, mineralogical and geochemical characteristics of mining waste.S
Pedagogical activities
My teaching activities are mainly focused on geology of ore deposits, the impact of mining on the environment and the issue of environmental burdens.
Bachelor degree:
- PriF.KLG / N-bGXX-001/15 – Basics of Geological Survey and Mining
- PriF.KLG / N-bGCH-004/15 – Mineral resources
- PriF.KLG / N-bGZL-003-3 / 3634/00 – Ore deposits
Master’s degree
- PriF.KLG / N-mGZL-020/15 – Ore raw materials of Slovakia
- PriF.KLG / N-mGZL-005/15 – Environmental legislation and technologies as a tool for sustainable development
- PriF.KLG / N-mGZL-100/15 – Impact of mining and processing of minerals on the environment
- PriF.KLG / N-mGZL-002/15 – Exploration, exploration and calculation of mineral deposits
- PriF.KLG / N-mGZL-112/15 – Application of deposit and environmental deposit geology in regional development
- PriF.KGCh / N-mEEG-135/15 – Risk analysis of polluted areas and environmental burdens
- PriF.KMP / N-mGMP-004/15 Environmental Mineralogy
- PriF.KLG / N-mGLG-103/15 – Deposit Geology Seminar
- PriF.KLG / N-mGZL-003/15 – Course of mining geological mapping and survey of deposit and environmental methods
- PriF.KGCh / N-mEEG-136/15 – Field course of survey and remediation methods of environmental loads
Doctoral degree
- PriF.KLG / N-DGLG-003/15 – Mineralogical, Geochemical and Other Research Methods in Deposit Geology
The most significant publications
Šottník, Peter – Jurkovič, Ľubomír – Hiller, Edgar – Kordík, Jozef – Slaninka, Igor: Environmentálne záťaže. – 1. vyd. – Banská Bystrica : Slovenská agentúra životného prostredia, 2015. – 301 s. [23 AH]
Frankovská, Jana – Kordík, Jozef – Slaninka, Igor – Jurkovič, Ľubomír – Greif, Vladimír – Šottník, Peter – Dananaj, Ivan – Mikita, Slavomír – Dercová, Katarína – Jánová, Vlasta: Atlas sanačných metód environmentálnych záťaží. – 1. vyd. – Bratislava : Štátny geologický ústav D. Štúra, 2010. – 360 s. [45 AH]
Hiller, Edgar – Lalinská-Voleková, Bronislava – Chovan, Martin – Jurkovič, Ľubomír – Klimko, Tomáš – Jankulár, Michal – Hovorič, Róbert – Šottník, Peter – Fľaková, Renáta – Ženišová, Zlatica – Ondrejková, Ivana: Arsenic and antimony contamination of waters, stream sediments and soils in the vicinity of abandoned antimony mines inthe Western Carpathians, Slovakia, Applied Geochemistry. – Vol. 27, No. 3 (2012), s. 598-614
Hiller, Edgar – Petrák, Marián – Tóth, Roman – Lalinská-Voleková, Bronislava – Jurkovič, Ľubomír – Kučerová, Gabriela – Radková, Anežka – Šottník, Peter – Vozár, Jaroslav: Geochemical and mineralogical characterization of a neutral, low-sulfide/high-carbonate tailings impoundment, Markušovce, eastern Slovakia, Environmental Science and Pollution Research. – Vol. 20, No. 11 (2013), s. 7627-7642
Hiller, Edgar – Tóth, Roman – Kučerová, Gabriela – Jurkovič, Ľubomír – Šottník, Peter – Lalinská-Voleková, Bronislava – Vozár, Jaroslav: Geochemistry of Mine Tailings from Processing of Siderite-Cu Ores and Mobility of Selected Metals and Metalloids Evaluated by a Pot Leaching Experiment at the Slovinky Impoundment, Eastern Slovakia, Mine Water and the Environment. – Vol. 35, No. 4 (2016), s. 447-461
Sekula, Peter – Hiller, Edgar – Šottník, Peter – Jurkovič, Ľubomír – Klimko, Tomáš – Vozár, Jaroslav: Removal of antimony and arsenic from circum-neutral mine drainage in Poproc, Slovakia: a field treatment system using low-cost iron-based material. Environmental Earth Sciences. – Roč. 77, č. 13 (2018), s. [1-14], Art. No. 518
Šottník, Peter – Lalinská-Voleková, Bronislava – Brčeková, Jana – Koděra, Peter – Jurkovič, Ľubomír: Characterization and environmental risk assessment of potential miningwaste from Detva – Biely vrch deposit
Current Projects
APVV-17-0317 Antimony – a critical element and a dangerous contaminant affecting biodiversity in sites with extractive waste. (co-researcher, project leader. Prof. RNDr. E. Hiller, PhD.)Click to Expand APVV-0344-11 Pilot implementation of mining water remediation at a selected abandoned Sb deposit (responsible researcher) APVV-VMSP-P-0115-09 Methodical procedure for a comprehensive audit of sludge containing waste after mining, APVV (responsible researcher for PRIF UK – RNDr. Ľ. Jurkovič, PhD.) APVV-VVCE-0033-07 Research and Education Center of Excellence for Solid State Research with a Focus on Nanomaterials, Environmental Mineralogy and Materials Technology (co-investigator, project leader. Prof. RNDr. M. Chovan, CSc.) APVV-0268-06 Evaluation of the impact of mining activities on the surroundings of abandoned Sb deposits of Slovakia with proposals for remediation, (co-researcher, project leader. Prof. RNDr. M. Chovan, CSc.) Project PA n ° 42 A JRC Project in Association with Central and Eastern European Countries of the Pre-Accession „Inventory, Regulations and Environmental Risks of Toxic Mining Wastes in Pre-Accession Countries“ (2002-2003) (supervisor: Giovani Bidoglio, JRC Ispra) Joint SR-US project: “Passive treatment of the acid mine drainage at Smolnik Mine, Slovakia” (1999-2000), funded by EcoLinks and Knight Piésold Denver (supervisor: prof.Šucha) Slovak coordinator of the Slovak-German-Vietnamese project: “Environmental impact of industrial waste in Nam Dinh county, Vietnam” (2000-2003) (leader: Dr. Jorn Kasbohm, University of Greifswald) SPD Obj. 3 2005 / 1-052: Improving the quality of training in the field of environmental risk of extractive industry waste (project manager) PS 2009/15 Preparation and conducting of Study tour on learning from the Slovak experience in environmental management and remediation of priority mine sites (project leader.) 2013/18 / RFP – Protected areas in EU accession context – Slovak experience (co-researcher)Completed projects (selection):
Personal competence
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