Prospects for the development of a mining territory of a developed mineral deposit

There are currently over 1,500 worked-out deposits of solid minerals in the Ural mining region. The total area of mining territories of worked-out deposits using open-pit mining alone is over 31 thousand hectares. The issue of involving worked-out deposits in national economic activity and the life of the population becomes obvious. The research has established that when the right to use subsoil resources is terminated and the objects related to subsoil use are liquidated in this case, the latter lose their production function and turn into natural and man-made objects of mining landscapes. A theoretical analysis of further development of such objects is carried out. The possibilities of using subsoil use waste located on the mining territory of worked-out deposits as man-made mineral deposits are considered. The types of self-development of mining landscape objects are classified. The paper considers the features of practical use of one of the objects of mining landscapes – flooded quarries. It has been shown that for this purpose it is necessary to form a land plot that includes a flooded quarry, with its subsequent registration in the Unified State Register of Real Estate. Recommendations are given for the involvement of territories of depleted deposits of solid minerals in national economic activity, including tourism and the life of the population living in this territory.

Konovalov V. E., Pochechun V. A., Kolchina M. E., Semyachkov A. I. Prospects for the development of a mining territory of a developed mineral deposit. MIAB. Mining Inf. Anal. Bull. 2025;(12-1):131-142. [In Russ]. DOI: 10.25018/0236_1493_2025_121_0_131.

V.E. Konovalov¹, Cand. Sci. (Eng.), Assistant Professor, e-mail: vek-1951@mail.ru, ORCID ID: 0009-0005-3217-7681,
V.A. Pochechun¹, Dr. Sci. (Geogr.), Assistant Professor, e-mail: viktoriyapochechun@mail.ru, ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2838-1162,
M.E. Kolchina¹, Cand. Sci. (Econ.), Assistant Professor, e-mail: m.e.kolchina@mail.ru, ORCID ID: 0009-0003-2985-0092,
A.I. Semyachkov, Dr. Sci. (Geol. Mineral.), Professor, Institute of Economics, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 620014, Ekaterinburg, Russia, e-mail: a.semyachkov@mail.ru, ORCID ID: 0000-0002-3352-2863,
¹ Ural State Mining University, 620144, Ekaterinburg, Russia.

V.A. Pochechun, e-mail: viktoriyapochechun@mail.ru.

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