In Kryvyi Rih, 10 hectares of rye were planted on the tailings of the Northern Mining and Processing Plant (GOK), which belongs to the Metinvest group.
The plant barrier, which is also called the green shield, is part of the dust suppression measures, because the roots and stems of the plants fix the dry surface, reports Metinvest.Media.
The material said that for the first time rye was sown on 2 hectares of tailings in 2021 for research and industrial trials. The ecologists of the enterprise had to make sure that the plant would take root.
Oleksiy Stepanenko, head of the environmental protection department of the Northern GOK, emphasized that in 2023, fertilizers were added to the soil to improve germination.
"Under favorable weather conditions, young rye will soon sprout and by autumn will reliably fix the loose surface of the tailings with roots and stems," he said.
It is noted that in addition to green technologies, the enterprise continues to use traditional dust suppression measures, namely:
- at the tailings storage facility, they carry out uniform washing of dry maps and maintain the design level of water in the hydraulic structure;
- irrigation of operational and service roads;
- areas of the tailings storage facility, which are not planned to be used for two or more years, are loaded with rock or active binding reagents are used to compact the surface.
Earlier, EcoPolitic wrote, that in the spring of 2022 on the territory of the tailings storage facility of the Ingulets Mining and Processing Plant (InGZK), which is part of the Metinvest group, rye was sown.
As EcoPolitic previously reported, in Kryvyi Rih at the Northern Mining and Processing Plant (GOK) despite the war in its entirety implemented the city environmental program.
