The Presidium of RAS, Moscow, Russia:

K. N. Trubetskoy, Adviser of Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician, e-mail: trubetsk@ipkonran.ru

IM UB RAS, Yekaterinburg, Russia:

S. V. Kornilkov, Director, D. Eng., e-mail: direct@igduran.ru

V. L. Yakovlev, Chief Researcher, the Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, phone: +7 (343) 350-50-51

Russia is the large-scale mineral raw material power of the world. The country is the world leader in explored reserves of natural gas, iron ore, titanium, tin, tungsten, silver, apatites, diamonds, and is in the triple of leaders in copper reserves, molybdenum, gold, platinoids, potassium salts. Russia takes high stands in volumes and costs of mined mineral raw material (over 8%), solid mineral resources (the 5th place in the world) including. The contribution of mineral raw material complex to the country’s internal gross product (IGP) constitutes about 20% and to the Federal budget income share — about 50%.
Mining-metallurgical complex is the base of the Ural region social-economic development. At the same time the shortage of mineral raw materials of many sorts has sprung up in the Urals as a result of intensive deposits exploitation and reducing the volumes of geodetic-surveying works especially in the last ten years.
The distinguishing feature of composite estimation is the purpose search for mineral resources, providing the realization of priority programs in the territory being developed; grounding the volumes and directions of step-by-step speeded up survey, accompanied by proximate geodetic, technologic, economical and ecologic calculations; geoinformational aid of design-technological support of composite mineral resources development and territories development with maximum-useful involvement all resources sorts in the inspected region; drawing up solutions or formulating basic limiting conditions of nature management with employment the results of scientific investigations.
The results of the latest estimations carried out for 7 sorts of mineral resources, being proposed for development in the Khanti-Manci autonomous region (KMAR) within the bounds of realization the project “The Urals Industrial — the Urals Polar” confirm the principles formulated in the process of studies that should be realized forming strategies of mineral raw material base in the regions with complex conditions. Pointed out methods of approach are to a great extent true for the districts of Yakutiya, Far East, the Kolar Peninsular, since their regional features are similar.

The article is made ready on the results of investigations performed within the framework of the RAS Earth Science Department (ESD) Program “The prognosis of technological progress in mining branches in terms of energy saving and modernization the technique and technologies of mining production”.

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