Management as a system, involves all planning and organizational processes to identify, assess, manage and monitor risks in order to take swiftly measures to reduce or eliminate them and additionally provide advance evaluation and timely delivery of opportunities. In the literature there are plenty of cases where risks and opportunities are seen as the same elements but with different directions. This has provided results of their management not of the expected impact.
The mapping of risk and opportunities management is an important process that is realized, concretized and updated in all the phases of management: identification, evaluation, administration and monitoring. The use of maps for managing risks and opportunities in terms of the reactivation of the abandoned mines in Albania, acquires features, the specification of which is addressed in this paper.