Environmental appraisal of the area of Kachkanar mining-and-processing plant by satellite monitoring data

The authors prove relevance of digital space data to be used for regional and local operational quantitative estimation of nature in the area of mineral mining and processing. The research findings are analyzed in terms of environmental appraisal made for the area of an open pit mine at Gusevogorskoe deposit of titano-magnetite ore with vanadium admixture (Sverdlovsk Region, Russia).