Albínovská hora, sometimes also Albínovská hôrka (translated to English as ''Albinov Hill'' or ''Albinov Mountain'', in local dialect ''Baňa''—Mine from Hungarian ''Bánya'') is a hill located on the west part of Sub-Slanec Hills, division of

Eastern Slovak Hills The East(ern) Slovak Hills (Slovak: ''Východoslovenská pahorkatina''), also translated as Eastern Slovak Upland, is the higher, mountain-like part of the Eastern Slovak Lowland. It is a strip of hilly land surrounding the Eastern Slovak Flat al ...

, in eastern

Slovakia Slovakia (; sk, Slovensko ), officially the Slovak Republic ( sk, Slovenská republika, links=no ), is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is bordered by Poland to the north, Ukraine to the east, Hungary to the south, Austria to the s ...

. The hill is high and it is located in the administrative area of

Sečovce Sečovce (; hu, Gálszécs; uk, Сечівці) is a town in the Trebišov District in the Košice Region of south-eastern Slovakia. History The town was first mentioned in year 1255 on the list of king Béla IV of Hungary. In 1494, a Roman Ca ...

, north of the residential area. Remains of

Tertiary Tertiary ( ) is a widely used but obsolete term for the geologic period from 66 million to 2.6 million years ago. The period began with the demise of the non-avian dinosaurs in the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, at the start ...

volcanic activity in the area (see

Slanské Hills The Slanské Hills (in Slovak, ''Slanské vrchy'') is a range of mountains in eastern Slovakia, one segment of the Mátra-Slanec Area of the Inner Western Carpathians. Overview The area is named after the nearest town in the southern portio ...

) is

andesite Andesite () is a volcanic rock of intermediate composition. In a general sense, it is the intermediate type between silica-poor basalt and silica-rich rhyolite. It is fine-grained (aphanitic) to porphyritic in texture, and is composed predomi ...

and characteristic

tuff Tuff is a type of rock made of volcanic ash ejected from a vent during a volcanic eruption. Following ejection and deposition, the ash is lithified into a solid rock. Rock that contains greater than 75% ash is considered tuff, while rock cont ...

, covered under layers by

Neogene The Neogene ( ), informally Upper Tertiary or Late Tertiary, is a geologic period and system that spans 20.45 million years from the end of the Paleogene Period million years ago ( Mya) to the beginning of the present Quaternary Period Mya. ...

sedimentary rocks – gravel, sand,

kaolin Kaolinite ( ) is a clay mineral, with the chemical composition Al2 Si2 O5( OH)4. It is an important industrial mineral. It is a layered silicate mineral, with one tetrahedral sheet of silica () linked through oxygen atoms to one octahedral ...

etc.Magyar, Július (2009), Prírodné podmienky, in Ordoš, Ján, edi. ''Sečovce'', 2nd edition, Prešov: L.I.M., pp. 7–24, , p.13

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