Analyzing effects of dust from mining enterprises on the environment

Abstract

Abstract The relevance of research is due to the widespread intensification of mining processes in the territory of the Irkutsk Region and our country. The issue of assessing the negative impact on the environment is primarily due to the limitations of individual methods, which give only a partial and concise insight into the actual state of violations. The assessment procedure consists of the primary determination of the causes and sources of dust emissions, followed by the identification of areas of dust distribution during mining and zoning. In our case, we used the method for estimating the index of air pollution using dust fraction indicators, assessing the dust load on the main employees of mining enterprises, and by means of economic assessment of environmental damage. As a result of the atmosphere pollution index estimation, it was established that the total value of pollution from dust was higher than the “average” indicator. The research results prove the special effect of dust in environmental pollution. The damage from dust emissions is caused to all components of the environment on large areas, including human health.