Mining areas are characterized by significant changes in the natural environment. Extraction of large volumes of minerals and ore-bearing rocks, as well as underground water from the subsurface disturbs the natural conditions of rock occurrence, promoting the development of complex physical, chemical and engineering-geological processes and phenomena in the Earth's crust.

Coal seams subject to splitting there are almost in all coal basins, including Donetsk. The nature of splitting and the causes that caused it, studied by many researchers. G.F. Krasheninnikov reduced the morphological types of splitting of thick coal seams to the following main cases: 1) a seam, gradually thinning, wedges out; 2) splitting bundle; 3) splitting with the upper seam; 4) splitting with the lower seam. ...