Forecast of environmental response to mining in the KMA basin

Abstract

The relevance of the research is due to the importance of the mining industry in the country’s economy. In addition to the fact that the Kursk magnetic anomaly is a powerful iron ore basin, it is also one of the largest in the world in terms of iron ore reserves. It plays an important economic and strategic role for the country in terms of the resource base for the development of the primary (mining industry; development of mine deposits) and secondary (manufacturing industry; industrial and civil construction) sectors of the economy. At the same time, one needs to take into account the level of environmental pollution associated with the activities of mining enterprises and the risks of a negative impact on the state and health of the population directly residing in the region. The purpose of the research is to assess the expected reaction of the natural environment to the direct or indirect impact of the planned activity, to solve the problems of rational nature management in accordance with the expected state of the natural environment. Research method. The predictive design assessment of the environmental impact was determined as the total of the forecast baseline assessment and the impact assessment of the planned activity. Results. The authors made a number of calculations, including the impact of the mining enterprise on the air environment around the deposit; the main pollutants in comparison with MPC in the basin of the Kursk magnetic anomaly (KMA); the impact of the enterprise’s activities on the water environment in the KMA basin; the volume of waste from vehicles and quarry equipment in the KMA basin. Conclusions. The obtained data testify to significant changes in the state of the natural environment in the region of activity of subsoil use enterprises using the example of the KMA basin.