Environmental Aspects of Storing Tails of Ore Dressing in a Mountain Region

Abstract

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.