Mining Enterprises Development as a Financial Source of Environmental Activities in Mining Regions

Abstract

The analysis of using the production capacity and other economic indicators of mining enterprises is given and the structure of goals of a development strategy in mining industry is shown. An example of mining effective methods that do not cause environmental damage to the regions is described. The authors emphasize that the development of regions and their ecology are in close interdependence with the participation of extractive companies in economic and social infrastructure development, their costs for environmental protection. They substantiate the methodology for the growth rates analysis of mining companies' costs for environmental protection measures. It is carried out separately for each type of expenditure, average for the year and cumulative over a period of time to optimize the sources of financing for targeted development programs for mining regions and improve their ecology.