Dust Pollution in Open Field Development

Abstract

Regions of extraction of mineral raw materials are characterized by the proximity of powerful mining production with intensive agricultural production within the framework of the natural and man-made system. Around the quarries of open development of deposits formed a stable zone of dusting, which violates the process of self-regulation of the natural environment until irreversible degradation. The intensity of pollution of the environment by mobile dust increases due to the exceeding of the limit of energy intensity of the breakage of ores. The formation of anthropogenic anomalies is associated with the rates of correction of soil homeostasis in stochastic processes of transformation of hydrochemical conditions, and is characterized by a decrease in the yield of agricultural crops. The concept of environmental protection from dust pollution includes the task of minimizing the technogenic impact on nature and generalizes the conditions for the ecological and economic compatibility of mining and agricultural production. Reducing the volume of the formation of mobile dust is achieved due to the adjustment of the technology of breaking the ores.