原苏联的采矿部门已达到巨大的规模,同时也成为巨大的废料生产者,其数量超出主要产品3～4倍。根据苏联黑色冶金工业部一些采选公司的报导,到1988年1月1日累计已生产40亿吨细磨铁砂,其中约5亿吨铁。每年产出的废料约3亿吨。到2000年,废料 The former Soviet Union’s mining sector has reached a huge scale and has also become a huge waste producer, which is three to four times larger than the major products. According to reports by some mining companies in the Soviet Union’s Black Metallurgical Industry, cumulatively, 1 billion tons of fine iron ore have been produced by January 1, 1988, of which about 500 million tons of iron have been produced. The annual output of about 300 million tons of waste. By 2000, scrap