DESIGNING OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT ALGORITHM FOR UNDERGROUND MINING PROJECTS

7th International Scientific Conference - SGEM2007, www.sgem.org, SGEM2007 Conference Proceedings/ ISBN: 954-918181-2, June 11-15, 2007

ABSTRACT

In current paper the purposes of an environmental assessment are described
and the method, through which the “Impacting Factors” and “Environmental
Components” are determined, is also outlined. Then, according to the
definition, possible scenarios, and matrixes of weighting factors, the algorithm
which shows the relation between Impacting Factors and Environmental
Components is determined. Furthermore, the derivation of matrixes and the
method of environmental assessment are described. In order to compare the
existing situation of Environmental Components with standards, the standard
diagrams of Environmental Components are derived and introduced. As the
main advantage, this new algorithm takes several environmental issues and
their interaction into consideration.

Keywords: underground mining, environmental assessment, environmental
components, impacting factors.