Academician Melnikov Institute of Comprehensive Exploitation of Mineral Resources—IPKON, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Yu. P. Galchenko, Chief Researcher, Doctor of Engineering Sciences, Professor, schtrek33@mail.ru

The unresolved antagonistic confrontation between the Techno- and Biosphere led to the transformation of the systemic ecological crisis into a crisis of the Geosphere, associated with the almost uncontrollable destruction of the upper horizons of the Lithosphere in order to provide material and energy for a society of ‘unlimited consumption.’ It is shown that it is at this level of the problem that there is an obvious systemic contradiction between the ever-growing immediate need for mineral raw materials and energy resources and the prospect of the need to preserve, within the framework of the accepted Sustainable Development Concept, the possibility of full use of natural resources for future generations. The most important structural component of this contradiction is the growing discrepancy between the intensive growth of the geomechanical consequences of mining operations and the extensive form of technology development designed to compensate for these consequences, as geological and geotechnical conditions of field development become more complex. The scientific direction is substantiated and a methodology for eliminating this discrepancy is proposed based on the transformation of the provisions of the theory of bifurcation in biosystems into the Technosphere. For the first time, a hypothesis has been developed about the possibility of controlling the secondary stress state of rock mass, in the structure of technogenically modified subsurface, due to the purposeful spatial localization and time separation of mining operations and ground control activities. A general methodological approach to the formation of the structure of convergent mining technology is substantiated, based on ensuring protection from the effects of geomechanical disturbance of the lithosphere by anticipating the construction of a system of dividing massifs. Using the results of theoretical and model studies of the patterns of fragmentation of the secondary stress field in the geophysical structure of the technogenically altered subsurface allowed us to develop a methodology for determining the quantitative ratios of the volumes of artificial and natural components of the proposed geotechnology, in which the subsequent development of reserves of excavation units does not violate the geophysical stability of the formed mining system.

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