UDC 556.3:504.61:622.016 • Issue 7 (35) / 2022 • 51-56 pages
Z. Кhevpa, V. Dolin, E. Yakovlev, E. Kuzmenko, S. Bagriy
Кhevpa Z.Z., PhD (Geol.), Senior research fellow, State Institution “The Institute of Environmental Geochemistry of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine”, ORCID: 0000-0002-6759-9850, zenonzxv@gmail.com
Dolin V.V., D. Sc. (Geol.), Prof., Research Director, State Institution “The Institute of Environmental Geochemistry of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine”, ORCID:0000-0001-6174-2962, vdolin@ukr.net
Yakovlev E.A., D. Sc. (Eng.), Chief Researcher, Institute of Telecommunications and Global Information Space of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, ORCID.org/0000-0001-6934- 618x, yakovlevhydro@gmail.com
Kuzmenko E.D., D. Sc. (Geol.), Prof., Head of the Sub-Faculty of Geotechnogenic Security and Geoinformatics, Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas, ORCID: 0000-0002-1994-0970, gbg@nung.edu.ua
Bagriy S.M., PhD (Geol.), Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas, ORCID: 0000-0003-1190-6222, gbg2020@ukr.net
Abstract
Water and environmental problems are caused by the systematic inflow of unsaturated drainage waters and low-mineralized brines into the mine No 2 of the Stebnyk potash deposit. Filling the mine workings with unsaturated brines caused the risk of losing the stability of the interchamber pillars and ceilings in the spent chambers, rock separation, intensification of karst-breaking processes. The paper analyzes the development of the ecological emergency in chronological terms. Hydrogeological, hydrochemical, seismic and geophysical data of monitoring, visual and instrumental observation of the deformation of the earth’s surface were used to solve the set tasks. The dynamics of flooding of the mine № 2 was analyzed. In the mining massif of mine No 2, the decompaction of rocks along the formation 10 in the Northern-Eastern direction towards the spent chamber 115 was recorded, the infiltration supply zone, the transportation zone and the groundwater discharge zone were established. The presence of intensive filtration of surface waters in the massif of rocks indicates the process of karst formation, which is confirmed by the inflow of formation waters into the mine workings and the decomposition of interchamber pillars. The zone of decompaction extends towards the mine, where the development of karst is maximum. The destruction of the inter-chamber columns and the ceiling led to a significant increase in the level of brine in the chambers of the second horizon at the end of 2014. It is estimated that the volume of broken pillars is ~ 473,540 m3. The correlation between the long uncontrolled growth of increase in the amount of unsaturated drainage water in the mining area in 1978-2013 and the formation of karst dips over the spent chambers of the first horizon was found. There was a breakthrough of supersalt low-mineralized aggressive waters to this horizon in October 1978.
Key words: mine, mine workings, rock, horizon, mineral, mineralization, potassium salts, brines, disintegration of interchamber pillars, karst failure.
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