A complex characteristic of the degree of influence of mining on the environment is given. The criteria for assessing the impact of mining on the region's ecology are substantiated. A set of measures aimed at improving the mineral resource use system with an environmental effect is proposed. It is shown that the effectiveness of resource-saving is a function of the volume of minerals extracted on the surface. A complex criterion for assessing the effectiveness of mining technologies as a ratio of the ecological and economic factors of working of mines is proposed. The analysis of the practice of applying resource-saving technologies with the transfer of mineral into the solution at the site of occurrence of ores is given. The typology of technologies for hazards prevention and measures for environmental protection has been proposed. The concept of resource-saving as a correct use of natural-man-made arrays in the process of extraction of mineral raw materials is formulated.

Regions of extraction of mineral raw materials are characterized by the proximity of powerful mining production with intensive agricultural production within the framework of the natural and man-made system. Around the quarries of open development of deposits formed a stable zone of dusting, which violates the process of self-regulation of the natural environment until irreversible degradation. The intensity of pollution of the environment by mobile dust increases due to the exceeding of the limit of energy intensity of the breakage of ores. The formation of anthropogenic anomalies is associated with the rates of correction of soil homeostasis in stochastic processes of transformation of hydrochemical conditions, and is characterized by a decrease in the yield of agricultural crops. The concept of environmental protection from dust pollution includes the task of minimizing the technogenic impact on nature and generalizes the conditions for the ecological and economic compatibility of mining and agricultural production. Reducing the volume of the formation of mobile dust is achieved due to the adjustment of the technology of breaking the ores.

The tools for improving the environment state of mining regions is the optimization of mining and technological processes based on an assessment of the state of the natural environment when the technogenic load changes. The mining industry forms tailings storages for the processing of ores, which, in specific mountain conditions, determine the level of environmental impact. Conventional ore processing technologies do not ensure the extraction of metals from tailings of beneficiation to a level that allows them to be used in the national economy. Modernization of beneficating processes is possible using new leaching technologies, for example, processing in disintegrators. The ecological efficiency of waste-free utilization of tailings of beneficiation is achieved with system management of a set of extraction and processing processes taking into account the damage from environmental chemization. The efficiency of utilization of tailings of processing consists of reducing damage from the storage of tailings, the cost of commodity products obtained during processing, as well as reducing the technogenic load on the environment.

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The metal deposit, as an object of natural leaching, is a natural and technogenic system within which processes of natural processing of metal-bearing ores take place, with the extraction of metals into solution. Modernization of mining on an environmental-based basis is possible with the use of innovative technologies for extracting metals from solutions of natural leaching. The ecological efficiency of the purification of mine drains with the capture of metals dissolved in them is described by a model linking the totality of processes up to the realization in the form of marketable products, including damage from the removal of metals and chemicals to the ecosystems of the environment. Under appropriate conditions, natural leaching processes can be corrected by technological methods.