Occurrence of Faults in the Western Donbass at Mining Works

Abstract

The article discusses the features of the formation, distribution and manifestations of fault structures in the Western Donbass for planning mining operations in disturbed areas. As a result of the study and manifestation features of faults it was established that violations in Western Donbass mines are occurred in limited quantities by compressing tectonic stress of north-east direction with a shift of the wings and lifting pre-exploding zones in the vertical plane with the formation of sliding surfaces. Confirmation of faults formation nature is shown by the example while intersection of Fault Bogdanovskiy with vertical amplitude of 320 m by the mining operations of "Samarskaya" mine at Company “DTEK “Pavlogradygol”. According to the study of the propagation of faults, it was found that tectonic faults are not reservoirs for overflow water from the overlying aquifer, the major complicating factors are the collapse of the roof rocks and vertical convergence.