Sustainable development of Estonian mineral resources for economical usage in roads construction

Today the situation has been sharply changed in the production and use of construction materials in Estonia compared with the needs of a decade ago. This fact is explained mainly by Estonia's entry into the European Union community. This has led to new demands and constraints associated with the extraction of minerals and their further use. Doubtless, it is important to consider the impact on the environment, as well as new technological opportunities in this sector that is growing and changing rapidly. The situation could not affect the construction of roads, which is quite costly procedure. The idea of this paper is to analyse possible ways for sustainable mining of local minerals resources for national roads construction without importing expensive materials from abroad.