Author:
Name & Surname: Kozlovsky E. A.
Company: Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (Moscow, Russia)
Work Position: Vice-President
Scientific Degree: Professor, Doctor of Engineering Sciences
Contacts: igepraen@ya.ru

Natural mineral, especial fuel-and-power, resources are the dynamic portion in the economy of any country–user while some countries, such as Russia, build their business activity and politics upon them. This article gives an analysis of use of natural resources in Russia against the global tendency toward development of the worldwide supply of natural resources. The point is that mining industry has to deal with poor quality minerals that occur in weakly developed areas. This results in higher cost of geological exploration and imposes more stringent requirements on reliability of evaluation data obtained. The author proposes some measures in the field of concept, technology, finance, management and legislation aimed at effectivization of geological exploration in Russia. In particular, it is suggested to raise government budget financing of basic geological exploration (initial prospecting stage), to create special bank for target-oriented crediting of mining and processing industry, to amend taxation policy in the country to stimulate prospecting of new sources of minerals and raw materials, to form a council on national subsoil use policy vested with specific authority under the President of Russian Federation, to modify the concept of the Federal Law on Natural Resources, and to expand geological mapping of uncovered territories.

1. Kozlovskiy E. A. Mineralno-syrevye resursy v ekonomike mira i Rossii (Mineral resources in global and Russian economics). Moscow : VNIIgeosistem, 2014. 700 p.
2. Polozhenie Rossii v mineralno-syrevom komplekse mira (Russian state in global mineral complex). Gosudarstvennyy doklad «O sostoyanii i ispolzovanii mineralno-syrevykh resursov Rossiyskoy Federatsii v 2012 godu» (State report «About the state and usage of mineral resources of Russian Federation in 2012»). Moscow : Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation, 2013. (in Russian)
3. Puchkov L. A. Mineralno-syrevoe potreblenie i mirovye ekonomicheskie krizisy (Mineral consumption and global economic crisis). Gornyi Zhurnal = Mining Journal. 2013. No. 2. pp. 4–7.
4. Puchkov L. A. Prognoz mineralno-energeticheskogo potrebleniya pri beskrizisnom razvitii ekonomiki (Forecast of mineral-energetic consumption during non-crisis development of economics). Gornyi Zhurnal = Mining Journal. 2014. No. 7. pp. 45–48.
5. Kleshchev K. A., Lodozhevskaya M. I., Golov A. A. Osnovnye pokazateli sostoyaniya toplivno-energeticheskogo kompleksa stran – proizvoditeley nefti i gaza (Basic indices of the state of thermal-energetic complex of oil and gas production countries). Gornyi Zhurnal = Mining Journal. 2009. No. 3. pp. 18–24.
6. Vercheba A. A. Problemy osvoeniya mineralno-syrevoy bazy tverdykh poleznykh iskopaemykh Rossii (Problems of mastering of raw material base of Russian solid minerals). Gornyi Zhurnal = Mining Journal. 2009. No. 3. pp. 25–29.
7. Rudakov V. V. Problemy razvitiya i osvoeniya syrevoy bazy zolota v Rossii (Problems of development and mastering of gold raw materials base in Russia). Gornyi Zhurnal = Mining Journal. 2010. No. 1. pp. 4– .
8. Chanturiya V. A., Bondar S. S., Godun K. V., Goryachev B. E. Sovremennoe sostoyanie almazodobyvayushchey otrasli Rossii i osnovnykh almazodobyvayushchikh stran mira (Modern state of diamond-mining branch in Russia and basic diamond-mining countries of the world). Gornyi Zhurnal = Mining Journal. 2015. No. 2. pp. 55–58.
9. Yushina T. I., Petrov I. M., Avdeev G. I., Valavin V. S. Analiz sovremennogo sostoyaniya dobychi i pererabotki zheleznykh rud i zhelezorudnogo syrya v Rossiyskoy Federatsii (Analysis of modern state of extraction and processing of iron ores and iron-ore raw materials in Russian Federation). Gornyi Zhurnal = Mining Journal. 2015. No. 1. pp. 41–47.
10. Kozyrev V. S., Nechaev A. V. Tsvetnaya metallurgiya v gorno-metallurgicheskom komplekse stran SNG (obzor po itogam 2013 goda) (Non-ferrous metallurgy in mining-metallurgical complex of CIS countries (review on the basis of the results of 2013)). Gornyi Zhurnal = Mining Journal. 2014. No. 12. pp. 17–26.
11. Mashkovtsev G. A., Korotkov V. V. Mineralno-syrevoy potentsial metallurgii Urala, Sibiri i Dalnego Vostoka (Mineral potential of Ural, Siberian and Far Eastern metallurgy). Gornyi Zhurnal = Mining Journal. 2009. No. 3. pp. 29–33.
12. Egorov E. G. Modernizatsiya i innovatsionnoe razvitie gornopromyshlennogo kompleksa severo-vostoka Rossii (Modernization and innovation development of mining complex of Russian North-East). Gornyi Zhurnal = Mining Journal. 2015. No. 3. pp. 52–55.
13. Kozlovskiy E. A. K probleme nedropolzovaniya v Rossii (To the problem of subsoil use in Russia). Marksheyderiya i nedropolzovanie = Mine surveying and subsoil use. 2013. No. 4. pp. 15–22.
14. Boyarko G. Yu. Kapitalizatsiya geologorazvedochnykh rabot (Capitalization of mine surveying). Mineralnye resursy Rossii. Ekonomika i upravlenie = Mineral resources of Russia. Economics and management. 2000. No. 4. pp. 40–43.
15. Zolotenkov Ya. V., Boyarko G. Yu. Pravovye i ekonomicheskie problemy geologorazvedochnykh rabot i puti ikh resheniya (Legal and economic problems of mine surveying and ways of their solving). Gornyi Zhurnal = Mining Journal. 2015. No. 2. pp. 4–8.