Lozhnikov O., Adamova V. Technical and economic assessment of technological schemes for reclamation of watered quarry residual spaces

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Parent Category: Geo-Technical Mechanics, 2025

Category: Geo-Technical Mechanics, 2025, Issue 174

Geotech. meh. 2025, 174, 43-57

 

TECHNICAL AND ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT OF TECHNOLOGICAL SCHEMES FOR RECLAMATION OF WATERED QUARRY RESIDUAL SPACES

Lozhnikov O.

Adamova V.

Dnipro University of Technology

UDC 622.271

Language: English

Abstract. The work aims to establish effective technological schemes for reclamation when creating a coastal strip in watered mined quarry areas. The influence of the watered quarry space parameters on the technical and economic indicators of reclamation when creating a recreational zone in the watered residual space has been determined. The influence of the type of rock when forming a coastal strip by embankment on the technical and economic indicators of reclamation has been established. The total costs of applying the specified technological scheme using rocks, sands, and loams have been determined. It is established that the use of sand is the most expensive process, due to its low stability when forming watered slopes of dumps and the need to increase the volume of mining reclamation. When using sand in constructing a coastal strip with an area of 0.5 ha, the costs of reclamation increase by 1.6–1.8 times compared to rocks or loams due to the increased volume of mining and haulage works. The technical and economic indicators of the technological scheme of reclamation have been determined, in which the rock from the non-watered part of the quarry side is excavated and moved outside the quarry when creating a beach zone of given parameters. Under this scheme, an increase in the coastal strip from 0.5 ha to 1.0 ha leads to an increase in the volume of reclamation works to 392,000–496,000 m³, depending on the type of rocks from which the quarry slope is formed. When using the second scheme, the lowest costs for reclamation works are determined when developing the non-watered part of the quarry slope, composed of loamy rocks. It is determined that the reclamation of the hard rock mass according to this scheme requires an increase in costs by 3.6–4.3 times that of developing loamy rocks, depending on the height of the non-watered quarry slope. The established dependencies allow us to evaluate the choice of the technological scheme of reclamation in the presence of the parameters of the watered quarry residual space, the rocks from which the non-watered quarry slope is formed, and the available volumes of waste rocks near the quarry, which can be used to create a recreational zone in the watered quarry residual space.

Keywords: quarry, watered residual space, reclamation, recreational zone, coastal strip, technical and economic indicators.

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Lozhnikov Oleksii, Doctor of Technical Sciences (D. Sc), Professor, Professor of Department of Surface Mining, Dnipro University of Technology (DniproTech, MES of Ukraine), Dnipro, Ukraine, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Corresponding author), ORCID 0000-0003-1231-0295

Adamova Viktoriia, Graduate student of the Department of Surface Mining, Dnipro University of Technology (DniproTech , MES of Ukraine), Dnipro, Ukraine, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ORCID 0009-0000-7802-5193

 

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