scholarly journals Justification of disturbed land reclamation after open pit mining of kimberlite pipes in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

2020 ◽  
pp. 65-69
Author(s):  
I. V. Zenkov ◽  
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A. S. Morin ◽  
V. N. Vokin ◽  
E. V. Kiryushina ◽  
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Author(s):  
T. V. Galanina ◽  
M. I. Baumgarten ◽  
T. G. Koroleva

Large-scale mining disturbs wide areas of land. The development program for the mining industry, with an expected considerable increase in production output, aggravates the problem with even vaster territories exposed to the adverse anthropogenic impact. Recovery of mining-induced ecosystems in the mineral-extracting regions becomes the top priority objective. There are many restoration mechanisms, and they should be used in integration and be highly technologically intensive as the environmental impact is many-sided. This involves pollution of water, generation of much waste and soil disturbance which is the most typical of open pit mining. Scale disturbance of land, withdrawal of farming land, land pollution and littering are critical problems to the solved in the first place. One of the way outs is highquality reclamation. This article reviews the effective rules and regulations on reclamation. The mechanism is proposed for the legal control of disturbed land reclamation on a regional and federal level. Highly technologically intensive recovery of mining-induced landscape will be backed up by the natural environment restoration strategy proposed in the Disturbed Land Reclamation Concept.


2021 ◽  
pp. 69-78
Author(s):  
Lyudmila I. Vlasyuk

In the article, according to the theory and methodology of strategizing of academician V. L. Kvinta substantiates the strategic priority of greening the economy of Kuzbass: the land reclamation fund. This strategic priority has become part of the one developed by the team of of Lomonosov Moscow state University under the leadership of academician V. L. Kvinta Strategies for socio-economic development of the Kemerovo region — Kuzbass until 2035.The most serious environmental problem of Kuzbass is a significant lag in the rate of land reclamation from the rate of their violation by open mining operations, and the lack of accurate data on the area of disturbed land. The most serious ecological problem of Kuzbass is a significant lag in the rate of land reclamation from the rate of its disturbance by open pit mining, and the lack of accurate data on the area of disturbed land. The creation of the Kuzbass land reclamation fund, as an economic mechanism of financial guarantees, will make it possible to carry out work on the restoration of disturbed lands at the expense of coal mining enterprises, the authorities of the Kemerovo region will ensure monitoring and control over the reclamation behavior.The strategic initiative reflects the interests of Russia localized in the Kemerovo region, the interests of the region and its residents, its implementation will significantly improve the environmental situation in the region, restore the value of the land and ensure the possibility of its further use, including in agriculture and forestry, compatible with comfortable living of people subsoil use in the region. The strategic priority is backed by competitive advantages and all types of resources.


2019 ◽  
Vol 105 ◽  
pp. 02006
Author(s):  
Tatiana Gvozdkova ◽  
Pawel Stefanek ◽  
Michaela Koščová

Ecological problems in the open pit mining of coal deposits are extremely hard, since mining operations are accompanied by disturbed land to a large depth with significant changes in the landscape, hydrometeorological conditions, mixing of rocks and removal of infertile or even harmful rocks with radioactive isotopes to the surface. Disturbed lands are unusable if they are not repaired. All man-made disturbances of the environment caused by open pit mining are divided into landscape (changes in terrain, vegetation and soil cover) and environmental (violation of living conditions within the allotment and adjacent lands: changes in water regime, pollution of the soil, air and water basins) onesOne of the most important areas in the field of environmental protection is the reclamation (restoration) of the earth’s surface. In accordance with the requirements of the protection of the subsoil, enterprises engaged in the development of mineral deposits are obliged at their own expense to bring disturbed lands into a state suitable form for their further use. Reclamation of ought to be carried out during open pit mining operations and must be completed after mining of mineral resources in the terms established by the authorities that provide land for use.


2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 1612 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wu Xiao ◽  
Xinyu Deng ◽  
Tingting He ◽  
Wenqi Chen

The development and utilization of mining resources are basic requirements for social and economic development. Both open-pit mining and underground mining have impacts on land, ecology, and the environment. Of these, open-pit mining is considered to have the greatest impact due to the drastic changes wrought on the original landform and the disturbance to vegetation. As awareness of environmental protection has grown, land reclamation has been included in the mining process. In this study, we used the Shengli Coalfield in the eastern steppe region of Inner Mongolia to demonstrate a mining and reclamation monitoring process. We combined the Google Earth Engine platform with time series Landsat images and the LandTrendr algorithm to identify and monitor mining disturbances to grassland and land reclamation in open-pit mining areas of the coalfield between 2003 and 2019. Pixel-based trajectories were used to reconstruct the temporal evolution of vegetation, and sequential Landsat archive data were used to achieve accurate measures of disturbances to vegetation. The results show that: (1) the proposed method can be used to determine the years in which vegetation disturbance and recovery occurred with accuracies of 86.53% and 78.57%, respectively; (2) mining in the Shengli mining area resulted in the conversion of 89.98 km2 of land from grassland, water, etc., to barren earth, and only 23.54 km2 was reclaimed, for a reclamation rate of 26.16%; and (3) the method proposed in this paper can achieve fast, efficient identification of surface mining land disturbances and reclamation, and has the potential to be applied to other similar areas.


Author(s):  
Hisni Rahmi ◽  
Didik Susetyo ◽  
Restu Juniah

Event open-pit mining methods in the exploitation of limestone by PT Semen Baturaja (Persero) Tbk cause depletion of water, air, and soil. At the end of mining activities will leave ex-mine land in the form of void and non void (empty land). Reclamation and Postmining must be carried out by the company according to the mandate of Government Regulation No. 78 year 2010. Reclamation and post-harvest activities on ex-non void mines can be revegetation activities, while void can be used as reservoirs for raw water sources. The aim is to maintain the sustainability of natural resources and water in the limestone mining environment. The research aims to determine the condition of void water produced from limestone mining activities for a sustainable environment. The method used in this study is using the pollution index method. The results showed that the water in the sump inlet and quarry outlet experienced mild pollution. Pollution index at the location of the limestone mine sump inlet worth 2.14 and for oulet quarry worth 2.07. This shows that mine void water is not feasible to be used as raw water, so water treatment needs to be done so that it meets the established quality standards. If void water comply the prescribed quality standards, environmental sustainability in the limestone mining sector can be achieved during during the life of the mine, post mining, until after the post-mining period.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksandr Ishkov ◽  
Mihail Vikulov ◽  
Yuriy Bochkarev

The textbook discusses the features of the operation of mining and transport machines in open-pit mining in a cold climate zone, highlights previously unexplored problems of operation of this type of equipment, and describes methods for determining the operational reliability of equipment. The proposed methods of operation are based on the analysis of a significant amount of statistical material on failures of equipment operating at large mining enterprises of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The influence of low temperatures on the reliability indicators and technical and economic results of the operation of mining and transport machines was determined quantitatively and qualitatively. Meets the requirements of the federal state educational standards of higher education of the latest generation. It is intended for students of higher educational institutions studying in the specialty 21.05.04 "Mining", it can also be useful for graduate students, researchers and practitioners specializing in the technical operation of mining and transport machines.


2021 ◽  
Vol 942 (1) ◽  
pp. 012027
Author(s):  
P Kozińska ◽  
J Górniak-Zimroz

Abstract Illegal open pit mining might be a very dangerous activity both for the environment and also for the people living in its neighbourhood. This kind of activity is connected with environmental degradation, disruption of sustainable development and lack of the most critical last stage of the mine’s “life”, i.e. land reclamation. An additional element connected with illegal exploitation is the fact of breaking the law and stealing mineral resources. Monitoring of illegal exploitation is therefore an important aspect. The presented here review was intended to investigate which methods can be used directly to detect open pit mining sites and to evaluate their effectiveness. In the reviewed works a wide variety of methods have been used, ranging from manual methods, such as photo-interpretation, to a combination of automatic methods and photo-interpretation, to fully automatic methods. Based on the analysis, it was indicated that different types of classification (supervised, unsupervised, hybrid) are the most commonly u sed. Besides, radar interferometry, image fusion techniques, or images spectral similarity are also used.


2021 ◽  
Vol 280 ◽  
pp. 11002
Author(s):  
Yevheniy Babets ◽  
Yevheniy Terekhov ◽  
Taras Mormul ◽  
Iryna Melnikova ◽  
Vitalina Komirna

Conditions of the planning of open-pit mining objects have been identified, making it possible to reduce the need in the allotted land area during mineral extraction. The research results have allowed proposing a methodological approach to determine economic expediency of the increase in the technogenic land reclamation level under conditions of open-pit mining, being the reserves to expand the technogenic land areas returned to the economic use.


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