The problem of safety of the fields of mining industrial production of arid zone of Kazakhstan

Abstract

The urgency of the safety of the components of the natural environment of Central Kazakhstan
is due, firstly, to the long development of solid minerals and, in connection with this, the
huge expenditure of energy and water resources, and secondly, to the use of obsolete mining
technologies. The complex of works on the extraction of solid minerals leads to a change in the
entire range of environmental conditions in the mining areas and adjacent areas, which is due to
the interconnectedness of all natural components among themselves. The processes leading to the
radical reorganization of the lithogenic base include works in the mining sector, the beginning
of which was laid in the first half of the twentieth century. A prolonged mechanical intervention
in the surface subsurface structures of the earth’s crust led to the development of a number of
dangerous geodynamic processes that directly and indirectly degrade the ecological state of the
environment of the study area.