Nechunaev V. N., Senior Researcher, Joint Stock Company “Scientific and Technical Center of Mining Industry on Quarries – Research and Desing Institute on Open-Pit Mining Operations”; Tsvetova E. A., Engineer-Ecologist, e-mail: info@ustup.ru, “Scientific and Technical Center Geotechnology”, Ltd.

On the base of conditions and technologies analysis of formation of automobile-logging blades of stripping soils, the technique of evaluation of the most popular methods of its development, such as peripheral and layer by layer, has been presented. The basis criteria of method choosing of spoil dump formation have been defined.