Reclamation of the tailings pond # 1 of the ore processing plant at the Albazino deposit

Waste from mining and beneficiation complexes has a negative impact on the environment and incurs significant costs, including those associated with maintaining tailings storage facilities. The establishment of tailings storage facilities accompanies nearly all beneficiation processes at mining enterprises when developing primary deposits. They are primarily located in river valleys and occupy vast areas of valuable lowland landscapes. The research subject is the mining and beneficiation complex for the extraction and processing of the Albazino gold deposit. The research object is the process of restoring disturbed lands. The Albazino gold deposit is situated in the Far Eastern Federal District, in the eastern part of the Polina Osipenko District of Khabarovsk Krai. The chosen direction for reclamation is the sanitary-hygienic approach (tailings storage preservation). The article justifies and proposes a technology for reclaiming the surface of Tailings Storage Facility No. 1. Its conceptual basis is founded on principles that account for the current state of the tailings storage facility, its general and specific characteristics, geographical and climatic conditions, and the possibility of executing all types of work with maximum use of local materials, considering the best available technologies. Conclusions are drawn regarding the feasibility of conducting miningecological monitoring until the restoration of natural vegetation closely resembling a zonaltype ecosystem.

Kanakova E. V., Vdovenko A. V., Lipina L. N. Reclamation of the tailings pond # 1 of the ore processing plant at the Albazino deposit. MIAB. Mining Inf. Anal. Bull. 2023;(12-1):64—74. [In Russ]. DOI: 10.25018/0236_1493_2023_122_0_64.

Kanakova E. V., Head of the Land Management Department of the Khabarovsky branch of JSC Polymetal UK, e-mail: KanakovaEV@polymetal.ru, Khabarovsk, Russia, 680000 Muravyov-Amursky str., house 18;
Vdovenko A. V., Cand. Sci. (Eng.), Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Geodesy and Land Management, Pacific State University, e-mail: 004164@pnu.edu.ru, Khabarovsk, Russia, 680000 Pacific str., 136;
Lipina L. N., Cand. Sci. (Eng.), Associate Professor of the Department of Geodesy and Land Management, Pacific State University, e-mail: geo-lipina@rambler.ru, Khabarovsk, Russia, 680000 Pacific str., 136.

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