The restoration of consumption of goods and services leads to an aggravation of the problem of improving geotechnologies in the field of transition to sustainable mining. In addition, the primary mining of rich and disseminated ores, as well as the decrease in the profitability of mining enterprises in the increasingly difficult mining conditions for the development of reserves, do not allow using the advantages of the circular economy. In the context of the creation of new barriers to access to global markets, the low level of «greening» of production, as well as high levels of carbon footprint, can become a significant problem for the sale of domestic raw materials.
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The practical significance of the totality of the results obtained consists in determining the technological parameters of an environmentally friendly in-situ leaching technology based on gas control points in combination with a suction method for supplying a leaching solution.
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