Priargunsky Industrial Mining and Chemical Union, Krasnokamensk, Russia:

Svyatetskiy V. S., Chief Executive Officer

Litvinenko V. G., Chief Technologist, Doctor of Engineering Sciences, phone: +7 (30245) 3-31-59

Morozov A. A., Head of the Geotechnical Laboratory, Candidate of Engineering Sciences

On the basis of the analysis of scientific and technical developments, and experimental and industrial application of uranium block underground leaching on several Russian and foreign deposits, there were considered the possibilities and criteria conditions of industrial application of this geotechnology on uranium deposits of Streltsovskoe ore field (Priargunsky Industrial Mining and Chemical Union).

For the purpose of large-scale industrial application of the block underground leaching on Streltsovskoe ore field deposits, it is necessary to research and estimate the combination of the basic criteria factors (conditions), which provide the efficient difference of this geotechnology, such as mining and geological, and mining and technological conditions.

However, the decision about the large-scale application of the block underground leaching could be made only after the estimated technical and economical calculations for identification of the prospective sources and deposits of Streltsovskoe ore field with the analysis of its state and comparison of area development indices by traditional method, according to the block underground leaching technology.

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