Disposal of Mining Waste and its Impact on the Environment

Abstract

The activities of mining enterprises are inextricably linked with the formation of a large amount of industrial waste, which harms the environment. Another important factor in emergency pollution is the deterioration of com-munications and equipment obsolescence, which in some mining enterprises reaches 70%. The problem of waste management and management, despite a large number of scientific works and developments in this area, in the conditions of modern Russia is extremely relevant and requires the latest research from an economic point of view on waste, minimizing its impact on the environment, and safely storing it in specially equipped storage facilities to attract it as secondary raw materials. One of the biggest problems associated with mining waste is a significant burden on emergencies as a result of irrational and unorganized management of some of the waste. Most of this waste is generated in the processes of ore extraction and processing. In economic terms, waste is considered to be unused residues of raw materials, semi-finished products, heat carriers, and other types of unused material resources that appeared in the production process, lost their consumer properties, and, accordingly, cannot be used for their intended purpose.