Today, Wednesday, June 18, 2025, Reporting House will unveil a special installation made from 500 original mineral crystals brought from the Trep\u00e7a Mine, marking the first anniversary of Reporting House.<\/p>\n
Titled 100<\/em>, the installation also commemorates 100 years since the beginning of Trep\u00e7a\u2019s modern industrial era.<\/p>\n Reporting House announced that the minerals featured in 100<\/em>, curated by Gazmend Ejupi, come from the Stant\u00ebrg Mine, the oldest mine within the vast Trep\u00e7a complex, located a few kilometres from Mitrovica and around 45 kilometres north of Prishtina.<\/p>\n The minerals were extracted from a depth of 750 metres by miners who continue to work in extremely difficult conditions, facing temperatures of up to 50 degrees Celsius, high humidity, dirt and dust, often without adequate protective equipment.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd yet, the lead and zinc ores contained in these rocks, extracted under primitive and arduous conditions, ultimately find their way into our pockets through modern technologies such as the mobile phones we use every day. Trep\u00e7a\u2019s lead and zinc are also used in car batteries. These raw, luminous and striking crystals are more than a geological wonder. They are a calendar of history, silent witnesses to labour, their ancient geological timeline now intertwined with the recent decades of our resistance and liberation,\u201d the announcement states.<\/p>\n According to Reporting House, the Stant\u00ebrg Mine, one of the oldest within the Trep\u00e7a industrial complex, was developed by a British mining company in the 1920s, several years after Kosovo came under Serbian rule. During the Second World War, Nazi Germany took control of Trep\u00e7a and retained it until 1944, when the Yugoslav Partisans came to power. A new era of mining followed, focused on extracting large quantities of ore with minimal investment.<\/p>\n During what became known as Trep\u00e7a\u2019s golden age, from 1960 to 1981, employment expanded significantly, eventually reaching 22,885 workers in 1988, compared with around 8,000 at the beginning of the period. As Slobodan Milo\u0161evi\u0107 moved to abolish Kosovo\u2019s autonomy within Yugoslavia, Trep\u00e7a became one of the centres of resistance.<\/p>\n \u201cIn 1989, 1,200 miners staged an eight-day hunger strike underground, seeking to defend the constitutional position established by the 1974 Yugoslav Constitution. Although the strike assumed historic proportions, it failed to halt the suppression of Kosovo\u2019s autonomy and became a warning of the violent dissolution of Yugoslavia that was to follow,\u201d the announcement states.<\/p>\n Mining at Trep\u00e7a has a much longer history, with evidence of activity dating back to the Roman period. The name Trep\u00e7a itself appears in a papal document dating from 1303.<\/p>\n \u201cLead, zinc, silver and gold ores were extracted at Stant\u00ebrg. The Ottomans took control of the mine in 1455. Following the destruction caused during the War of the Holy League, mining activity ceased toward the end of the seventeenth century,\u201d Reporting House states.<\/p>\n Trep\u00e7a\u2019s modern industrial revival began with assessments of its lead and zinc deposits during the 1920s, an initiative associated with Yugoslav Prime Minister Nikola Pa\u0161i\u0107 and his son Rade. After exploratory work was completed in 1925, a 50-year concession agreement was reached with Selection Trust, a British mining finance company.<\/p>\n In 1927, Selection Trust established a London-based subsidiary called Trep\u00e7a Mines Limited. Production began in 1930, and the company operated the mine until the Second World War.<\/p>\n Reporting House opened on June 10, 2024, in Prishtina\u2019s former G\u00ebrmia department store.<\/p>\n Through its exhibitions and programmes, Reporting House documents and presents the extensive work of local and international journalists who reported on the war in Kosovo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today, Wednesday, June 18, 2025, Reporting House will unveil a special installation made from 500 original mineral crystals brought from the Trep\u00e7a Mine, marking the first anniversary of Reporting House. Titled 100, the installation also commemorates 100 years since the beginning of Trep\u00e7a\u2019s modern industrial era. 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