Institute of Mining, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Science, Khabarovsk, Russia:

I. Yu. Rasskazov, Director, Doctor of Engineering Sciences, rasskazov@igd.khv.ru
V. G. Kryukov, Leading Researcher, Candidate of Geologo-Mineralogical Sciences

Twenty-four deposits of solid and liquid minerals are currently under mining in the Khabarovsk Territory. Coal, gold, platinum, tin, copper, constructional materials and underground waters are economic and territorially available. Resource potential of highly marketable and realizable metals is considerable to to maintain operating mines and create new mining industry objects for a rather long term. This conclusion is based on the analysis of 11 geographic areas of mineral deposits, including 3 goldbearing, 1 rare-earth and 7 complex ore mineralizations. The common features of the geographic areas are identified in accordance with the major and accompanying minerals, single mineral deposits, promising ore fields as well as mining and exploration agencies. Each area embraces a number of ore fields as a rule. Gold-bearing ore and rare-earth fields are very promising. Gold fields in long-term mining zones are especially attractive, namely, Nizhneamursk and Verkhnebureinsk (Nizhneamursk and Bureinsk-Kerbinsky localities) and gold–copper–porphyrite sites (Badzhalsk-Komsomolsk locality). Areal arrangement of mineral deposits allows cooperation of mining companies in terms of formation of a common infrastructure and optimal transport system to deliver renewals, fuels, lubricants and food. Outsourcing can be assigned to a unifi ed geological service which will provide geological studying of the whole territory and individual mine sites. The problems of public–private partnership and development of regulatory and legal framework in the field of mining within a large region of the Far East of Russia deserve particular attention.

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