Coal cleaning wastes as the source of profit for urban places of old industrial mining regions

The article deals with the differentiation of areas for high-volume stocking of coal cleaning wastes on the ground of the territorial approach based on the principle of subordination to Ukrainian administration supported with the corresponding maps of such places. Possible variants of the tailing pits' clustering in Donetsk Region are represented. The most expedient methods of geological and industrial assessment are proposed for by-product fuel resources due to coal cleaning wastes and their processing.