Trends of Landscaping Formation and Recultivation in Quarries for Breakstone Manufacturing

Abstract

Economy development of Russia is suggested growth of mining of commonly occurred mineral resources, including granite macadam and crushed limestone for application in civil engineering and industrial construction, as well as for erection of roadway for railway and highway construction. On the land of Krasnoyarsk Kray there is large quantity of deposits of such mineral resources, which are abandoning or so far depleted in the course of open-pit mining. As a rule, depleted quarries remain abandoned and formation without consideration geoecological purposes. There were presented new knowledge on general trends of mining landscape formation in depletion quarry of granite and limestone in the process of manufacturing constructive and road stone. There were revealed facts, testified on absence of work performance’s results on recultivation of disturbed lands in abandoned depleted quarries.