Overburden management towards higher safety in coal mining regions

Coal mining is on the list of top ten industries producing the most adverse impact on the environment. This impact includes water withdrawal from natural sources, discharge of polluted mine effluents in water bodies, emission of harmful substances in air, land withdrawal and disturbance, as well as placement of mine waste in external dump storages. Ecological safety of coal mining and friendly environment in coal mining areas is a challenging problem calling for an appropriate campaign to be developed and undertaken. Open pit mining of coal results in considerable accumulation of hard overburden and half-rock. Dumping is confined to limited areas above ground and inside mined-out pit voids. With persistently increasing size of open pit mines, the volume of pit effluents to be treated also grows. One of the promising ways of this problem solution is a low-cost technology of coal mine waste water treatment using mining rejects, namely, overburden rocks.

Makridin E. V., Tyulenev M. A., Markov S. O., Lesin Yu. V., Murko E. V. Overburden management towards higher safety in coal mining regions. MIAB. Mining Inf. Anal. Bull. 2020;(12):89-102. [In Russ]. DOI: 10.25018/0236-1493-2020-12-0-89-102.

E.V. Makridin¹, Graduate Student; Deputy of Technical Director (for Perspective Development) of Surface Mining Office, SUEK-Kuzbass JSC, 652507, Leninsk-Kuznetskiy, Russia,
M.A. Tyulenev¹, Cand. Sci. (Eng.), Assistant Professor, Professor, e-mail: tma.geolog@kuzstu.ru,
S.O. Markov¹, Cand. Sci. (Eng.), Assistant Professor,
Yu.V. Lesin¹, Dr. Sci. (Eng.), Professor,
E.V. Murko¹, Cand. Sci. (Eng.), Assistant Professor, Chief of Graduate and Doctoral Studies Department,
¹ T. Gorbachev Kuzbass State Technical University, 650000, Kemerovo, Russia.

M.A. Tyulenev, e-mail: tma.geolog@kuzstu.ru

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