Designing the database structure for an information resource on the state of the natural environment in areas affected by mining operations
A.A. Petrov, S.P. Mesyats
Mining Institute Kola Science Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Apatity, Russian Federation
Russian Mining Industry №6/ 2025 p. 150-156
Abstract: The global nature of negative human-induced changes in the biosphere forces us to pay more and more attention to the state of the Earth’s soil envelope, which is the intersection of all energy and mass transfer flows on the Earth and which performs the most important ecological functions, i.e. preserving biodiversity, maintaining the modern climate of the Earth and the existing functioning mode of all the geospheres: the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere. Soil degradation is one of the most serious consequences of the human impact on the natural environment when developing georesources. The Mining Institute of the Kola Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences has been dealing with the problem of restoring disturbed lands for more than 40 years. A methodology has been justified and a technology for restoring natural ecosystems has been developed based on analysing data from multi-year monitoring of the disturbed land restoration in different climate zones and at various sites. The methodological approach to solving this problem is to use the regeneration capacity of the natural environment based on studying the self-organizing nature of soils and the potential for self-regeneration of each specific natural ecosystem. Knowledge and experience in restoration of natural ecosystems should be formalized and presented in the form of an information resource available for the specialists when developing organizational solutions to optimize the ecological state of the natural environment in the region. The article highlights several areas of knowledge that are expected to be used in the information resource. Application of the information resource makes it possible to handle the tasks of monitoring changes in the components of the natural environment, accumulating and analyzing materials on the studied territory, assessing the state of the disturbed lands, predicting negative processes, and prioritizing both general directions and specific measures to restore natural ecosystems disrupted by the development of georesources.
Keywords: mining complex, natural environment, restoration of natural ecosystems, information resource, georepresentations, stored information
For citation: Petrov A.A., Mesyats S.P. Designing the database structure for an information resource on the state of the natural environment in areas affected by mining operations. Russian Mining Industry. 2025;(6):150–156. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.30686/1609-9192-2025-6-150-156
Article info
Received: 03.09.2025
Revised: 23.10.2025
Accepted: 24.10.2025
Information about the authors
Aleksey A. Petrov – Researcher, Mining Institute Kola Science Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Apatity, Russian Federation; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8283-9288; e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Svetlana P. Mesyats – Leading Researcher, Head of Laboratory, Mining Institute Kola Science Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Apatity, Russian Federation; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9929-8067; e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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