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DOI: 10.21467/abstracts.93
Interdisciplinary Risk Research: Remote Sensing, Radar Altimetry, GIS, etc
Integration of the Electrical Resistivity Tomography and Seismic
Refraction Survey Data to Identify the Structure of Oxidized
Waterlogged Zones of the Mine Tailings (Western Siberia, Russia)
Sofiya Grakhova, Petr Dergach, Nikolay Yurkevich, Dmitry Kucher
IPGG SB RAS, 630090, Novosibirsk, Russia
doi: https://doi.org/10.21467/abstracts.93.69
ABSTRACT
Introduction. The current situation of mine wastes, ore dressing tailings, and slag from the metallurgical
industry in direct access to oxidizing and transporting factors has radically changed the environmental
conditions in mining regions, not only in Russia but also throughout the world. Water transport of
potentially toxic elements from dumps is gaining momentum over time due to the destruction of the tailings
mineral matrix and the transition of elements to mobile forms. The formation of highly mineralized
solutions inside the body of dumps and the direction of their subsequent migration in the external
environment are issues without which it is impossible to develop protective measures against the harmful
effects of acidic drainage water [1]. To assess damage and monitor such objects, it is necessary to develop
methods for continuous monitoring and testing. For several years we carried out electrotomography and
geochemical studies on the Ur dump, and in 2019 the seismic tomography technique was tested.
Study object located in the Barit village, Kemerovo region, it was formed in the 1930s. (Fig. 1). It is
composed of barite-pyrite granularity from
the oxidized zone of the Novo-Ursk deposit
pyrite after gold extraction by cyanidation.
The total iron content (in terms of Fe2O3) is
15%, sulfur (in terms of SO3) is 10%. A
natural stream flows near its foot, becoming
after a dump an acidic sulphate highly
mineralizedsolutionwith pH 2.1, specific
conductivity 3.9 mS/cm and high
concentrations of metals and metalloids [2].
Methods. The electrical resistivity
tomography (ERT) and Seismic refraction
survey were carried out at the Ur dump in
2019.
ERT was carried out by the multi-electrode electrical resistivity and induced polarization imaging
instruments «SibER-48»(LLC«KB Electrometry», Novosibirsk) in cloudless weather with a slight wind. A
single braid was used in the profile, the step between the electrodes was 5 m, the total length of the profile
was 120 m, so the most informative depth is 5-10 m.
Seismic observations were carried out along a 180-meter linear section with a distance of 1 m between
adjacent geophones. Excitation was carried out using a sledgehammer on a metal plate with a step of 5 m.
Figure 1. The layout of the Ur dump relative to the Ursk village.