ABSTRACT
New economic, political and ecological situation which had developed in Ukraine, demands revision of priorities of development of the state since despite the declination in production among the European states it has the greatest integrated indicator of anthropogenic loads of surrounding environment practically on all territory. Officially recognized international status of our state concerning its ecological condition and level of environmental pollution is defined as a zone of “ecological disaster”. Based upon it, there is a complex problem of a harmonious combination of acceleration of growth rates of market economic development with need of technical modernization of the mine enterprises which would provide a condition of self-supporting use of natural resources and environmental protection.
