Influence of hydrogeology at Unal tailings pond on ecosystem pollution with heavy metals

ВЛИЯНИЕ ГИДРОГЕОЛОГИЧЕСКИХ ОСОБЕННОСТЕЙ УНАЛЬСКОГО ХВОСТОХРАНИЛИЩА НА ЗАГРЯЗНЕНИЕ ЭКОСИСТЕМЫ ТЯЖЕЛЫМИ МЕТАЛЛАМИ
Makovozova Z.E. Sokolov A.A. Fomenko V.A. Sarbaeva M.T.
2023 Publishing house Mining book

Mining Informational and Analytical Bulletin
2023 Issue 6 126 - 138 pp.

Transformation of a nature-and-technology system (NTS) is a multi-stage process, and it is possible that a manmade envelope of a commercial value appears at a certain time. On the one hand, this explains the secondary contamination of rivers with bottom sediments, and, on the other hand, it raises a question on the relevance of proper monitoring of NTS. The article describes the behavior and transformation of the ecosystem at Unal tailings pond for the recent ten years. The risk assessment at the complex nature-and-technology systems should use an integrated multi-factor analysis with subsequent managerial inferences. The implemented research points at the significant part taken by the complex and branched river system in the Unal hollow in spreading of heavy metals and in pollution of the local ecosystem with them. It is recommended on improvement of monitoring representativeness at such NTS, and on creation of the required data base of instrumental measurements, which can enable detection of the most affected technology and nature sites. The need for the systematic monitoring for the comprehensive exploration and evolution staging of a complex nature-and-technology system is proved as a case-study of Unal NTS.

environment , hydrogeology , migration , nature-and-technology system , pollutants , river system , tailings pond , techno genesis

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North Caucasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, State Technological University, Vladikavkaz, Russian Federation
Branch of Southern Federal University in Gelendzhik, Gelendzhik, Russian Federation
Khoja Akhmet Yassawi International Kazakh-Turkish University, Turkestan, Kazakhstan

North Caucasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
Branch of Southern Federal University in Gelendzhik
Khoja Akhmet Yassawi International Kazakh-Turkish University

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