IMPROVING THE NORMATIVE LEGAL FRAMEWORK FOR ENSURING ENVIRONMENTAL AND INDUSTRIAL SAFETY OF MINING - THE BASIS OF INTRODUCTION OF INNOVATIVE GEOTECHNOLOGIES
The increase of environmental impact during the mineral resources exploitation as well as the increase of environmental payments and requirements for industrial safety determine the improvement of the regulatory framework for mining operations, which regulates the safe and efficient exploitation of mineral resources, including the use of innovative geotechnologies. The current regulations for environmental and industrial safety in mining operations, developed primarily in the last century, limited the involvement of mineral reserves located in particularly difficult mining, geomechanical and natural climatic conditions, and impede the introduction of new technological solutions, the use of which by regulatory documents not considered. Thus, the current regulatory documentation, which regulates the procedure for calculating the stability of the edges and benches of ore open-pits at their positioning at the limiting contour, was released several decades ago. Over the past decades, the mining and geomechanical situation has changed dramatically in the open mining operations, many new software complexes and computer developments have appeared, the possibilities of experimental methods for collecting initial data, their processing, justifying permissible parameters of the quarries edges have fundamentally changed, and the developed methods for assessing risks have been improved. For this reason, IPKON RAS, with the support of Rostekhnadzor, assumed the role of the initiator of the project for the development of Federal rules and regulations in the field of industrial safety "Rules for ensuring the stability of the edges and benches of pits, open-pits and dumps", which contribute to improving the economic efficiency and safety of open pit mining, and ensuring the competitiveness of Russian enterprises at the world level. This first initiative will be the basis for further improvement of the regulatory and methodological and legislative framework in the field of design, construction and operation of mineral resources. Similar studies in coordination with Rostekhnadzor will continue in other directions.