REMOTE-SENSING METHODS OF INDICATOR ESTIMATIONS OF GARDENING TERRITORIES PLACED BY MINING INDUSTRY WASTE

Abstract

Today across the world there are huge areas that are occupied by badlands left after intensive mining. Breeding dumps, sludge dumps, places of storage of ash and slag often represent a biological desert, which is difficult to remediate. For example, such places are sulfur rock dumps of mines in Donbas as a result of insufficient mineral nutrition and high acidity with sulfur concentration. Such zones show a low rate of self-growth and gardening. Mining wastes that accumulated for many years contain toxic components that are priority sources of environmental pollution.