The article present the results of the environmental study at the Ľubietová Podlipa dump-field. The distribution of the selectedelements and heavy metals is unequal and depend on the geochemical behaviour of the elements (mainly on their migration ability).The present natural sorbents are predominantly the clay minerals (illite, muscovite, caolinite, smectite) and hydrogoethite. The clay mineralsare good sorbents of K, Na, Li, Al, Rb, Sr, Hf, V, Cr, Ti, W, Zr, Nb, Ta a Th and at the hydrogoethite of Cu, Zn, Mo, Mn, Mg, P (± Fe, Cd,Co, Ca). In the case of the Fe, As, Sb, Ag, Pb, Zn, Mn, Mo, Bi, U was proved also the free sorption capacity.