State Management of Mineral Resource Potential Based on Geological and Economic Monitoring

Abstract

The relevance of the study is to develop a geological and economic model for calculating the exploration work volume for reproducing mineral resource base of non-ferrous metals, covering the base levels and management functions of the subsoil Fund, all stages of the exploration process. The subjects of the study are methodological approaches to calculating reserve shortage by types of metal minerals, substantiating optimal production and reproduction volume of the mineral resource base. The geological and economic model for calculating the exploration volume for reproducing mineral resource base, developed in the framework of the study, has been tested and used in the Central Federal district (in the Federal budget institution “Territorial Fund of geological information for the Central Federal district” (Moscow); in the Department of subsoil use in the Central Federal district (Moscow) and the far Eastern Federal district in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in the geological information funds, at the enterprise JSC “Polyus Aldan” and others. As the result of the research, a four-stage geological and economic model of the mineral resource base reproduction process was developed, on the basis of which methodological justification of geological and economic zoning of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) was prepared on the level of mineral resource potential of reserves of non-ferrous metals and forecast resources, the geological exploration volume for reproducing the mineral resource base of non-ferrous metals.