THE ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS OF URANIUM OXIDE EXTRACTION USING GEOTECHNOLOGICAL METHOD IN UNDERGROUND CONDITIONS OF THE VATUTINSKY DEPOSIT FOR THE POOR AND EXTREMELY POOR ORES

Details

Parent Category: Geo-Technical Mechanics, 2015

Category: Geo-Technical Mechanics, 2015, Issue 123

UDC[622.277:622.349.5].003.13

Authors:

MaltsevD.V., Ph.D. (Tech.), Associate Professor (State HEI «NMU»)

Vladyko O.B., Ph.D. (Tech.), Associate Professor (State HEI «NMU»)

Abstract.

A methodological approach to economic evaluation of producing uranium oxides from deposits with underground mining is presented for poor and extremely poor ores. Source data were determined for preliminary economic evaluation of leaching in underground conditions. A calculation scheme was adapted to the Vatutinsky deposit in terms of feasibility of uranium ore producing, which was based on the approbated world practices for evaluating economics of mineral deposits and analyzing effectiveness of investments into the mineral mining. According to the algorithm of calculating the stages of uranium ore mining the following indices were defined: preliminary costs of drilling and blasting operations for weakening ore massif in sandwiched  zone; costs of drilling operations and equipping of feeding and receiving boreholes-injectors with the cost of materials; cost of leacheable agents with taking into account their concentration and possible losses; pipelines and their construction cost, number and type of pump equipment for transporting leaching and productive solutions to the surface and into the chamber, respectively; cost of construction of an underground tank contour for productive solutions; cost of structures and works on the surface; the construction of underground protective walls that would prevent sulfuric acid fumes leaking from the drilling rooms into mine atmosphere; labor costs, and so on. The resulted cost of the uranium oxides producing was compared with the similar technological indicators, which are used  at the Vatutinsky deposits. Conclusions made concerns a possibility to use the proposed technology for the conditions under the consideration.

Key words:

cost of uranium mining by a geotechnological method, uranium ore, uranium oxide, calculation of leaching technology economic efficiency, leaching of ores.

References:

1. Maltsev, D.V. and Vladyko, A.B. (2015), “New approach to the booty of uranium for the Novokostyantynivka deposit”, Geotekhnicheskaya Mekhanika [Geo-Technical Mechanics], no. 120, pp. 202 – 212.

2. Maltsev, D.V. (2013), “Substantiation of blast-hole drilling parameters during destruction of massif that contains uranium ore”, Abstract of Ph.D. Dissertation, 05.15.02, SHEI «NMU», Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine.

3. Chernova, A.P., Babak, M.I., Koshyk, Y.E.,  Andreev, O.K. (and at) (2001), Dobycha i pererabotka uranovykh rud v Ukraine [Miningand processing of uranium ore in Ukraine], АDЕF-Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine.

4. Tabachenko, М.М., Vladyko, О.B., Khomenko, О.E. and Maltsev, D.V. (2012), Fizyko-khimichna technologiya [Physico-chemical geotechnology], SHEI “National Mining University», Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine.

5. Arens, V.Zh., Gridin, O.M., Kreynin, Ye.V. (and at) (2010), Fiziko-khimicheskaya geotechnologiya [Physico-chemical geotechnology], Publisher MSU, Moscow, Russia.

6. Sharovar, I.I. (1999), Geotekhnologicheskie sposoby razrabotki plastovykh mestorozhdeniy [Geotechnological methods development of layered deposits], Publisher MSU, Moscow, Russia.

7. Utkina, S.I. (2003), Ekonomika gornogo predprjyatiya [Economy mining enterprise], MMTU, Moscow, Russia.

8. Kononenko, М.М., Khomenko, О.E. and Usatyi, V.U. (2013), Vybir i rozrakhunok system pidzemnoy rozrobky rudnykh rodovychsh [Selection and calculation of underground mining of ore deposits], SHEI “National Mining University», Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine.

9. Karaman, G.V., Djakov, L.P., Shkola, I.N. and Grigorev, N.V. (1977), Ekonomika, organizatsiya proizvodstva i  planirovaniya v gornorudnoy  promyshlennosti [Economy and planning organization of production in mining industry], Nedra, Moskow, USSR.

10. Skipochka, S.I. and Vojtovich, T.G. (2013), “Assessment of mining and geological conditions of Novokonstantinovsk uranium deposit development”, Geotekhnicheskaya Mekhanika [Geo-Technical Mechanics], no. 107, pp. 19 – 26.

11. Vladyko, O. (2013), “Technological parameters of cutoff curtains, created with the help of inkjet technology”, “Underground Mining-2013”», Geomechnikal processes during underground mining, CRC Press, Netherlands, pp. 135 – 140.

About the authors:

Maltsev Dmytro Valeriyovich, Candidate of Technical Sciences (Ph.D), Associate Professor, Associate Professor of Underground Mining Department,  State higher educational institution “National Mining University” (SHEI “NMU”), Dnipropetrovs’k, Ukraine, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

Vladyko Oleksandr Borysovych, Candidate of Technical Sciences (Ph.D), Associate Professor, Associate Professor of Underground Mining Department, State higher educational institution “National Mining University” (SHEI “NMU”), Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .

• < Prev
• Next >