It rises from the western Smokuč mountain pasture (Slovene: Smokuška planina) to St. Anne (Sv.

The Martuljek Group with Škrlatica, Stol, Vrtača and Košuta can be seen to the north.

On the eastern side lie the Kamnik Savinja Alps with Storžič prominent, and the Ljubljana Basin can be seen to the south.

These mines contributed to 79% of all Slovene manganese ores processed in the ironworks of Jesenice.

They were used in 1872 by the engineer Lambert von Pantz to make ferromanganese, a manganese and iron alloy, in a blast furnace, with significantly higher manganese content than was previously possible (37% instead of the previous 12%).