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IBERO-AMERICAN NETWORK OF UNDERGROUND ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY. O meio ambiente subterrâneo, definição e utilidade na mineração do futuro/ underground environment, concept and utility of the future mining Vidal Navarro Torres. REV. MAMYM [online]. 2024, vol.9, n.2, pp.28-36. ISSN 2519-5352.

Abstract The general trend of mineral reserves will be of a lower grade in quality and be located deeper in the ground, this situation suggests that the future mining industry is including the exploitation of ever deeper deposits and the aspiration for an invisible, safe and environmental zero impact mine, that means deep underground sustainable mining. In this future situation the new concept of the underground environment may be very important to contribute to an efficient and effective underground environment control of impacts and therefore contribute to sustainable management of the future deep mines. Similarly to global or exterior environment, the underground environment is defined as the medium with non-biological environmental components (underground atmosphere air, groundwater and rock) and biological components(viruses, bacteria, including the man himself). The future deep mining wil be characyerized by critical economic, health, safety and environmental situations, in this context the new underground environment concept can contribute decisively to achieve zero accidents, and underground environment protection. Other important contribution of undegorund environmental concept is in sustainable future deep mining, based in the quatitative model called Envrionmental Sustainabiliy Index.

Palabras clave : Undergorund; environment,; deep; future; mining; sustainability.

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