Geo-Resources Recycling as the Way of Mining Wastes Disposing

¹ College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Department of Earth Science, Mekelle University, P.O.Box.3066, Mekelle, Ethiopia
² Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture & Technology, Mining, Materials & Petroleum Engineering Department, P.O. Box 62000 – 00200, Nairobi, Kenya
³ Indian Institute of Technology, Mining Engineering Department, 110 016 Hauz Khas, New Delhi, India
⁴ T.F. Gorbachev Kuzbass State Technical University, Surveying and Geology Department, 650000 Vesennya st. 28, Kemerovo, Russian Federation

^* Corresponding author: asmelashby@yahoo.com

Abstract

Scientific and technological progress envisages the solving the most important problems in the main areas of mineral processing, leading to the perfection of technological processes, improving quality indicators and reducing the cost of production. Rational use of minerals at the stages of their extraction and enrichment is a single indivisible problem, the main task of which is the fullest use of basic and rare minerals. Geo-resources include mineral deposits and subsurface materials (solid, liquid, gaseous, mixtures), underground space (cavity), subsurface energy (static, geo-dynamic, geomagnetic). Geo-resources are provisionally recognized as geoinformation, characterized by various attributes and properties of subsurface material (minerals, overburden, etc.), and the other geo-resources, including streams migrating into the depths (fluids, magma, etc.). It is clear that mineral resources are part of the subsurface material. Therefore, the most important aspect of geo-resources development today is the initiation of recycling of their industrial processing.