GOSPODARKA SUROWCAMI MINERALNYMI – MINERAL RESOURCES MANAGEMENT 2020 Volume 36 Issue 2 Pages 21–40 DOI: 10.24425/gsm.2020.132556 Martin SIVEK1, JAKUB JIRÁSEK2 Influence of the geology of coal deposits on their extraction and urbanistic development: a case study of Petřvald (Czech part of the Upper Silesian Basin) Introduction The influence of the discovery and subsequent mining of mineral deposits on the devel- opment of settlements has long been known. This relationship has been the subject of many literary works (e.g., Kirshner and Power 2015; Gold 2016), especially those that study the relationship between the development of mining and population growth. These links are usually easily explained because the development of settlements was and is even today still considered the result of increased demand for workers in mines and service sectors. Litera- ture likewise also documents the reversal of this trend that results from the exhaustion of reserves of exploited deposits, consequently causing a decline in mining. These processes lead to population decline and stagnation in the development of settlements, or even to their Corresponding Author: Jakub Jirásek; e-mail:
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