Perspectives for the Mining of Oil Shale and Limestone with Surface Miner

ABSTRACT: The paper introduces a mining of two most important mineral resources in Estonia. The goal is to present main factors which play an important role for perspectives of the mining of oil shale and limestone with a surface miner. Detailed overview of oil shale mining will be given because in Estonia is situated one of the world’s largest oil shale mining area. Comparing with oil shale is limestone more common mineral re-source and therefore will be limestone mining introduced briefly.