MINERAL COMMODITY SUMMARIES OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC (STATE TO 2006) (Data deadline: August 31, 2007) Ministry of the Environment Czech Geological Survey – Geofond October 2007 Reviewed by: Phillip C.F. Crowson Arnošt Dudek (except the chapters Geological evolution of the area of the Czech Republic and Regional geological terms) Dušan Ďurica Philippe Gentilhomme Miloš Kužvart Jiří Pešek Marian Radetzki Vladimír Sattran Martin Sivek Miroslav Šedina Friedrich-Wilhelm Wellmer Compiled by: Jaromír Starý Pavel Kavina Mirko Vaněček Ivo Sitenský Jana Kotková Tereza Nekutová Graphic design: Ludmila Richterová
[email protected] www.geofond.cz ISSN 1801-6693 CONTENTS page EXPLANAtoRY NOTES ..................................................................................... .5 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS, SYMBOLS AND TECHNICAL UNITS ……………………………..... .6 EXCHANGE AND INFLATION RATES OF CURRENCIES IN WHICH MINERALS ARE PRICED.......... .10 INTRODUCTION................................................................................................. .11 MINERAL BASE OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC AND ITS DEVELOPMENT IN 2006.................................................................... .15 ECONOMY AND MINERALS.............................................................................. .23 DEVELOPMENT OF THE CZECH AND WORLD ECONOMY AND IMPORTANCE OF RAW MATERIALS .................................................................... 24 LEGEND TO SELECTED ECONOMIC TERMS ............................................................... 38 THE ECONOMIC SITUATION OF DOMESTIC