Ecological State of Industrial Waste from the Kadamzhai Antimony Plant

Abstract

Sources of release of harmful substances during enrichment are emissions from ore crushing, as well as enrichment tailings. Dusty air from places of dust formation is taken by an aspiration device and purified in a dust settling chamber with wet collection. At a metallurgical plant, there are dust and gas collectors in ore-thermal furnaces. Dust and gases from furnaces are sent for sequential cleaning and collection (water-cooled cyclones, bag filters). At this stage, dust-containing gases leak. A particular danger to the environment is the storage of waste electrolyte accumulated in salt storage tanks. The area of salt storage tanks is 76.1 thousand m2. Salt storage tanks consist of 7 cards with a total volume of 249.95 thousand m3. Currently, the environmental situation in the area of salt storage tanks for industrial waste of the Kadamzhai Antimony Plant remains critical. All the existing 7 salt accumulator cards have expired, are in disrepair, and leak industrial wastewater into the soil. Salt accumulators No. 5 and No. 8, although they have not reached the end of their service life, are also in disrepair.