Academician Melnikov Research Institute of Comprehensive Exploitation of Mineral Resources, Moscow, Russia:

D. R. Kaplunov, Chief Researcher, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
M. V. Rylnikova, Head of Department, Professor, Doctor of Engineering Sciences, rylnikova@mail.ru

Kazgidromed, Karaganda, Kazakhstan:
A. B. Yun, Chief Executive Officer, Doctor of Engineering Sciences
I. V. Terenteva, Chief Geologist, Candidate of Engineering Sciences

Extensive mineral mining leads to quantitative and qualitative depletion of mineral reserves and resources. At the same time, application of integrated subsoil management principles calls for a new technological policy of mineral mining and processing, which is understood as a set of interconnected industries having the same production level and developing synchronously. The formation of a new technological policy of integrated subsoil management is considered in terms of the largest copper deposit Zhezkazgan. The audit of mineral reserves and resources shows replenishment potential of the raw material base through extraction of copper-bearing material previously assumed as nonprocessible. The international experience review and the implemented lab tests identify the most promising technologies for mineral and waste processing at the final operation stage of the Zhezkazgan field. A new scheme of ore haulage from faces to ground surface is evaluated. The Kazgidromed Research Center has developed innovation technologies for each type of raw materials: mixed and oxidized ore, as well as low-grade sulfide ores and tailings. In the course of development, a special research and semicommercial tests were carried out, production procedures were worked out, and feasibility studies of efficiency of the proposed technologies were performed. The developed innovative technologies provide high through extraction of target components, which allows significant reduction in the production cost and ensures profitability of any copper-bearing material production and processing. Thus, for operating mines, the modification of technological policy of mineral mining and processing replenishes depleting reserves and resources thanks to overall extraction of all mineral types with introduction of innovative methods for processing and recovery of all valuable components.
The study was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, Grant No. 18–05–00114.

1. Trubetskoy K. N., Kaplunov D. R., Rylnikova M. V., Radchenko D. N., Lukichev S. V. et al. Development of resource-saving and resource-reproducing geotechnologies of complex mastering of mineral deposits. Moscow : IPKON RAN, 2014. 196 p.
2. Pimentel B. S., Gonzalez E. S., Barbosa G. N. O. Decision-support models for sustainable mining networks: fundamentals and challenges. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2016. Vol. 112. pp. 2145–2157.
3. Espinoza R. D., Rojo J. Towards sustainable mining (Part I): Valuing investment opportunities in the mining sector. Resources Policy. 2017. Vol. 52. pp. 7–18.
4. Reyes-Bozo L., Godoy-Faúndez A., Herrera-Urbina R., Higueras P., Salazar J. L. et al. Greening Chilean copper mining operations through industrial ecology strategies. Journal of Cleaner Production. 2014. Vol. 84. pp. 671–679.
5. Kurneva M. V., Vishnyakov J. D., Kiseleva S. P. Methodological approach to assessment of ecological and economic efficiency of reproduction of mineral raw material base of diamonds. Eurasian Mining. 2015. No. 2. pp. 21–25. DOI: 10.17580/em.2015.02.06
6. Karpov Yu. A., Baranovskaya V. B., Loleyt S. I., Belyaev V. N. Analytical control of secondary metal-bearing raw materials. Tsvetnye Metally. 2015. No. 12. pp. 36–41. DOI: 10.17580/tsm.2015.12.06
7. Gu R., Ozbay U. Distinct element analysis of unstable shear failure of rock discontinuities in underground mining conditions. International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences. 2014. Vol. 68. pp. 44–54.
8. Xia K., Chen C., Deng Y, Xiao G., Zheng Y. et al. In situ monitoring and analysis of the mining-induced deep ground movement in a metal mine. International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences. 2018. Vol. 109. pp. 32–51.
9. Trubetzkoy K. N., Kornilkov S. V., Yakovlev V. L. On new view points for ensuring stable development of mining production. Gornyi Zhurnal. 2012. No. 1. pp. 15–19.
10. Kaplunov D. R., Rylnikova M. V., Radchenko D. N. Implementing the concept of sustainable development of mountain territories – expansion basis of mineral resources sector of the Russian Federation. Ustoychivoe razvitie gornykh territoriy. 2015. No. 3(25). pp. 46–50.
11. Kaplunov D. R., Radchenko D. N. Design philosophy and choice of technologies for sustainable development of underground mines. Gornyi Zhurnal. 2017. No. 11. pp. 52–59. DOI: 10.17580/gzh.2017.11.10
12. Lvov D. S., Glaziev S. Yu. Scientific and technical advance management: Theory and applications. Ekonomika i matematicheskie metody. 1987. Vol. 23, No. 5. pp. 793–804.
13. Rylnikova M. V., Yun A. B., Terentyeva I. V., Esina E. N. Completion of the disposed capacities of mines at the stage of completion of balance sheet field reserves – the condition of ecologically balanced development of the Zhezkazgan region. Marksheyderskiy vestnik. 2016. No. 5(114). pp. 6–10.
14. Sokolov I. V., Gobov N. V., Antipin Yu. G., Smirnov A. A., Nikitin I. V., Solomein Yu. M. Systematization and assessment procedure for alternative strategies of iron ore mining with underground processing plants. GIAB. 2015. No. 7. pp. 101–108.
15. Radchenko D. N., Lavenkov V. S., Gavrilenko V. V., Yemelyanenko E. A. Joint recycling of mineral dressing and chemical production waste in integrated multi-component ore mining. Gornyi Zhurnal. 2016. No. 12. pp. 87–93. DOI: 10.17580/gzh.2016.12.18
16. Volkov Yu. V., Sokolov I. V. Basic ways of development of geotechnology and geotechnics of underground mining of ore deposit. GIAB. 2007. No. 3. pp. 270–272.