1654 or 391 kg per capita, which is 11 kg more than the year before [7]. In 2024, 386 facilities for waste recycling (52.3% of all waste generated in Slovenia), 180 facilities for waste recovery (23.8% of all waste generated in Slovenia), 10 facilities for waste to energy recovery (4.2% of all waste generated in Slovenia) and 3 facilities for waste incineration operated in Slovenia (0.7% of all waste generated in Slovenia). Waste was still disposed of and landfilled at 17 landfill sites (19.0% of all waste generated in Slovenia), 14 landfill sites for non-hazardous waste, 2 for inert and 1 for hazardous waste. In the future, the principles of landfill mining will gradually be introduced for the exploitation of old landfills. In the period 2000-2024, the Slovenian Regulation on Mining Rights for Exploration or Commercial Exploitation of Mineral Resources, to keep a record 20 exploration areas and 393 exploitation areas, of which 322 were the basic exploitation areas and 71 were enlargements of the basic exploitation areas. Number of exploitation areas of mineral resource deposits with a certain exploitation area and concluded concession contract/acquired mining right in 2024 is as follows [14]: - lignite: 1 - pozzolan-tuff: 1 - building stone-other: 6 - oil + gas: 1 + 1 - chert: 1 - limestone for cement and lime: 5 - geothermal energy: 1 - ceramic (ball) clay: 1 - cement marl: 2 - bentonite: 1 - fire-resistant clay: 1 - crushed stone-limestone: 21 - calcite: 1 - brick clay: 4 - crushed stone -dolomite: 56 - chalk: 1 - brick marl: 1 - crushed stone-silicate: 4 - quartz sand: 4 - building stone-limestone: 9 - sand and gravel: 17 - industrial dolomite: 1 - building stone-tonalite: 2 - sea salt: 2. Table 2 Types of mineral commodities with number of Slovenian exploitation sites in year 2023. Types of mineral commodities Number of mineral commodities Number of exploitation sites Energy resources: 4 4 Metal raw minerals: - - Non-metal raw minerals: - industrial minerals and rocks - materials for construction industry - construction materials – aggregates. 18 7 7 4 137 10 29 98 Minerals – others: 1 2 Total 23 143 In 2024 there were 134 mineral deposit in Slovenia with 147 exploitation areas with a concession contract (mining right for exploitation), where 23 different types of mineral raw materials were exploitated, and extracted about 2.17 million tons of energy resources and 15.45 million tons of non-metallic mineral resources (Figure 6). For the exploitation in these exploitation areas, concession contracts were concluded with 104 concessionaires. In most of the exploitation areas, exploitation is taking place, some of which are in a state of hibernation, in preparation for exploitation or on the abandonment process of exploitation. In 2024, only 1 concession for geological exploration of mineral resources was active in Slovenia, which expired at the end of 2025.
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