It is highly uncertain as to the potential risk of toxic metal(loid)s in abandoned mine soil. In this study, random forest was used to predict the risk of cadmium pollution in the soils of an abandoned lead/zinc mine. The results showed that the random forest model is stable and precise for the pollution risk prediction of toxic metal(loid)s. The mean of Cd, Cu, Tl, Zn, and Pb was 6.02, 1.30, 1.18, 2.03, and 2.08 times higher than the soil background values of China, respectively, and their coefficients of variation were above 30%. As a case study, cadmium in the mine soil had “slope” hazard characteristics while the ore sorting area was the major source area of cadmium. The theoretical values of the random forest model are similar to the practical values for the ore sorting area, metallogenic belt, riparian zone, smelting area, hazardous waste landfill, and mining area. The potential risk of soil Cd in the ore sorting area, metallogenic belt, and riparian zone are extremely high. The tendency of pollution risk migrates significantly both from the ore sorting area to the smelting area and the mining area, and to the hazardous waste landfill. The correlation of soil pollution risk is significant between the mining area, the smelting area, and the riparian zone. The results suggested that the random forest model can effectively evaluate and predict the potential risk of the spatial heterogeneity of toxic metal(loid)s in abandoned mine soils.

To accurately and quantitatively analyze the pollutant gas concentration in tunneling roadways, a prediction model of the pollutant gas concentration was proposed and established. Through downhole gas composition data acquisition and correlation analysis, the prediction variables of downhole gas pollution are obtained with both short-term and long-term memory neural network prediction methods and random forest regression modeling methods, making full use of historical target gas concentration data for the future in a short period of time to evaluate the model performance and prediction results. Compared with the results of the stochastic forest regression prediction and the long- and short-term memory neural network prediction, the stochastic forest regression prediction model has a good prediction effect and better generalization effect and is a reliable method with excellent performance for downhole gas concentration prediction. The analysis of the predicted results shows that the change in CO concentration is strongly correlated with CH₄ and CO₂ and strongly correlated with N₂, making it possible to obtain the potential influencing factors of the target gas. These results provide a scientific basis for the prediction of underground pollution gas concentration and the protection and treatment of the atmospheric environment in mining areas.

The fruit fly optimization algorithm‐general regression neural network (FOA‐GRNN) coupled model and the Finite Element Method‐Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (FEM‐SPH) numerical calculation method are comprehensively used. The control problem of blasting vibration in the process of mining hidden resources under complex environmental conditions has been studied. Taking a lead‐zinc mine as the engineering background, the development of hidden resources in the collapse area due to unreasonable mining was studied. Based on the establishment of the first mining stope and its mining method in this area, biosimulation and generalized neural networks were introduced to solve this problem, the coupling of blasting parameters was analyzed, and the 3D nonlinear dynamic coupling model was constructed for numerical simulation. The results show that the blasting parameters of deep‐hole mining were optimized, including the values of six output quantities: hole distance, row spacing, side hole distance, explosive unit consumption, minimum resistance line, and interval ratio (the Root Mean Squared Error value is only 0.051). The error between the network optimization parameters and the empirically obtained values was controlled to within 0.05; five possible edge‐hole charge structures were designed (the interval ratio is 0.696), and the vibration velocity peak and pressure peak variations with time after detonation are reflected by the simulation results. The dynamic evolution law of the rock mass velocity vector and the damage of the rock damage was revealed. According to the analysis in this paper, the smallest and optimal edge‐hole charge structure of the surrounding rock was obtained.