As the population of our planet grows, the degree of negative impact on the biosphere steadily increases. This is due to the fact that, on the one hand, more and more minerals are extracted, more plant and animal products are harvested, more and more natural water is used for industrial, residential and agricultural purposes (Table 1), reclaimed land is brought into agricultural turnover, cities and settlements, production facilities are built, etc. On the other hand, the economic activity of mankind is steadily accompanied by an increase in the volume of various kinds of industrial and municipal wastes. For example, such components as garbage, waste and refuse are accumulated on a global scale in the amount of more than 20 10 tons per year.
The comparative analysis of available technologies for handling generated waste made it possible to develop a fundamentally new, more effective technology based on the principle of technogenic reproduction of resources introduced by us. When developing such technology a number of regularities related to the existing competitiveness of the Russian mineral resource base of polymetals were revealed; a mathematical model of the processes of technogenic reproduction of mineral raw materials; factors determining the rational degree of mineral waste processing; determination of the values of threshold values of the degree of their integrated processing and assessment of its efficiency.
The criteria are substantiated and the methodology for the development of environmentally friendly technologies for integrated development of poor and off-balance deposits by methods of geotechnology is proposed. The principles of creation of environmentally friendly technologies of complex development of deposits of strategically important mineral raw materials on the basis of their deep processing are described.
