Evaluation of Economic and Environmental Efficiency of Iron Ore Enterprises in Ukraine

The author's vision of the key role of the metallurgical complex in the economic system and significant systemic anthropogenic impact on the environment underlies the mining processing production monitoring and ecologization. The purpose of this paper is to develop the integrated index of economic and environmental performance as the information basis of analysis and decisionmaking of mining processin g production in the context of environmental activities. The review of scientific sources for defining the essence of the ecological efficiency of iron ore mining production was considered. The structure of informational basis for the economic analysis of mining production economic efficiency of iron ore mining plants was given. The means for improving the information basis for analysis and evaluation of mining processing and production in the context economicecological monit oring is suggested. Keywords: efficiency of environmental activities, information basis, mining production, management, economic analysis, index of economic and environmental performance.