Anthropogenic pollution of the southern part of the Khibiny mountain massif and foothills

4th International Scientific Conference "Arctic: History and Modernity"

生态环境科学;历史学

Slipenchuk, M.^1 ; Kirillov, S.^1 ; Vorobievskaya, E.^1 ; Sedova, N.^1

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia^1

关键词: Anthropogenic impacts;    Anthropogenic pollution;    Integrated use;    Local populations;    Mechanical disturbance;    Mineral fertilizers;    Mining companies;    Priority pollutants;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/302/1/012024/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/302/1/012024

学科分类：环境科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

The article deals with the problems associated with the anthropogenic impact of the mining and consentrating of apatite-nepheline ores on the environment in the Khibiny mountain massif, located in the central part of the Murmansk region. Mining company is one of the largest enterprises of the region and the largest European producer of phosphate raw materials for production of mineral fertilizers, but it is necessary to remember the fact that the activity of this enterprise causes significant damage to the environment, and the impact is complex. This impact is compounded by the low resilience of local ecosystems to human impacts. Mining leads to mechanical disturbance of soils, pollution of groundwater and surface water, atmosphere, soil and vegetation, and affectes negatively on the health of the local population. Negative features of production are low level of integrated use and consentrating of extracted ores, the presence of large amounts of unused waste of mining and consentrating industries. Priority pollutants are dust particles, strontium, lead, zinc, phosphorus, iron, etc. In this paper special attention is paid to bioindication research methods using Baltic sphagnum (Sphagnum balticum) and brown sphagnum (Sphagnum fuscum), due to their ability to accumulate aerotechnogenic pollutants.