title: [Environmental hygiene and comprehensive processing of copper sulphate ore].
abstract: The modern comprehensive processing of copper-sulphate ores is based on using the fire, chemical and combined fire-and-hydrometallurgy processes. The existing schemes of comprehensive ore processing do not provide for a total utilization of the metallurgical cycles wastes due to the inherent technological and design shortcomings; besides, they are a source of environmental pollution. Contamination of the atmospheric air with discharge elements has unfavorable effects on the health condition of population; it worsens the natural body resistance and contributes (through the induction of chromosome aberrations) to a higher general morbidity and mortality due to malignant neoplasms. Health-improve measures are supported by modern achievements in the sphere of copper-sulphate ore processing technologies--they ensure the hygienic and ecological rational management and usage at all stages of the processing of raw materials and secondary products. Institutions of the territorial medical-and-ecological monitoring are the corner stones for ecological safety of persons residing in areas of comprehensive copper-and-sulphate ore processing.
authors.forename: B A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Petrov
mesh_terms: D019327:Copper Sulfate / Q000009:adverse effects*; D015386:Hazardous Substances / Q000009:adverse effects; D006801:Humans; D007221:Industry; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D016273:Occupational Exposure / Q000009:adverse effects*
chemical_list: D015386:Hazardous Substances; D019327:Copper Sulfate