Results of restoration of the steppe
In light of current requirements to the environmental quality restoration of steppes is more beneficial than creation of pasture lands and hayfields where only 2-3 forage pants are applied. Therefore the reclamation projects of our enterprises will be specifically focused on this technology
Eduard Alexeenko
General Director, PJSC КТК
We restore natural vegetation of the disturbed lands
Since 2012 PJSC KTK has been conducting a long-term monitoring of the condition of the vegetation cover adversely affected by open-pit coal mining.
Since 2014 the experiments have been conducted at the Vinogradovsky Open-pit Mine to restore the natural steppe vegetation of the Karakan Ridge. There was created an experimental test site on the external overburden dump of the mine.
The scientists planted 4 ha of the dump with the grass-and-seed mixture of steppe plants. Following the results of the experiment it took only two years to form the vegetation cover with the 70% projective cover and input of over than 30 species of steppe and meadow plants.
The steppe restored on the dump has evidenced the effectiveness of the technology. We have received plain evidence that it was possible to use this technology to restore the disturbed lands and we resolved to put this technology in place in corporate projects of reclamation of lands.
