The Institute of Geology of Ore Deposits, Petrography, Mineralogy, and Geochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences (IGEM RAS)

A. E. Samonov, Senior Researcher, e-mail: aesam@igem.ru

In the current global conjecture production and consumption of rare earth metals (REM), Russia will have a beautiful and unique opportunities. To revive domestic production of rare-earth should be resolved in a short time, the issues of priority primary sources and the creation of dividing power. As a promising priority sources that can not only restore but also to ensure sustainable development for the foreseeable 40–50 years in a tough global competition and growth, we consider three objects — sources of REM: Lovozero loparite-eudialyte ore, rich in content and in the super volume of ore deposits Tomtorskoe, as well as technological rare metal resources associated with processing Khibina apatite mineral fertilizer by two methods (sulfuric acid and nitric acid). In all the three resources in the ores in industrial amounts of the scarce and expensive metals ittrovoy group, associated rare metal (Nb, Ta, Zr, Hf, Sr, etc.), and the Tomtor — a rare scandium, which are virtually absent in the known ore abroad. Application of rare earth and rare metals will produce a high-tech. high technology products, to raise the level of various sectors to the world and to compete successfully with foreign producers on domestic and foreign markets.

1. Rubanov I. A. Ekspert – Expert. 2010. No. 44. pp. 40–46.

2. Samonov A. E. Perspektivy razvitiya proizvodstva i potrebleniya redkozemelnoy produktsii v Rossii. Trudy Vserossiyskoy nauchnoy konferentsii RMO (Prospects of the development of production and consumption of Russian rare earth production. Works of All-Russian scientific Conference “RMO”). Ekaterinburg, 2008. pp. 134–138.

3. Samonov A. E., Melentev G. B. Khimiya i Biznes – Chemistry and Business. 2007. No. 5. pp. 36–38.

4. Melentev G. B., Samonov A. E. Khimiya i Biznes – Chemistry and Business. 2009. No. 2 (98). pp. 17–21.

5. Melentev G. B., Samonov A. E. Khimiya i Biznes – Chemistry and Business. 2009. No. 3/4 (99/100). pp. 49–54.

6. Melentev G. B., Samonov A. E. Khimiya i Biznes – Chemistry and Business. 2009. No. 6 (102). pp. 52–57.

7. Samonov A. E., Melentev G. B. Sovremennye perspektivy promyshlennogo izvlecheniya redkozemelnykh metallov iz mineralnogo i tekhnogennogo syrya. Tez. dokl. «Redkie metally: mineralno-syrevaya baza, osvoenie, proizvodstvo, potreblenie» (Modern prospects of the commercial extraction of rare earth metals from mineral and anthropogenic raw materials. Thesis of a report «Rare metals: mineral resources base, developing, production, consumption»). Moscow : IMGRE, 2011. pp. 138–141.

8. Tolstov A. V., Konoplev A. D., Kuzmin V. I. Tomtor: syrevaya baza, otsenka perspektiv i vozmozhnosti osvoeniya. Tez. dokl. «Redkie metally: mineralno-syrevaya baza, osvoenie, proizvodstvo, potreblenie» (Tomtor: raw materials base, prospects estimation and possibility of development. Thesis of a report «Rare metals: mineral resources base, developing, production, consumption»). Moscow : IMGRE, 2011. pp. 158–161.

9. Samonov A. E., Melentev G. B. Innovatsionnyy potentsial Tomtora. Materialy XXI Mezhdunarodnoy nauchnoy konferentsii, posvyashchennoy 100-letiyu so dnya rozhdeniya V. I. Smirnova «Fundamentalnye problemy geologii, mestorozhdeniy poleznykh iskopaemykh i metallogenii» (Tomtor`s innovative potential. Materials of the XXI International scientific Conference, devoted to the 100-th anniversary of V. I. Smirnov «Fundamental problems of geology, mineral deposits and metallogeny»). Moscow : MGU, 2010. pp. 56–57.

10. Mashkovtsev G. A., Bykhovskiy L. Z., Rogozhin A. A., Temnov A. V. Perspektivy ratsionalnogo osvoeniya kompleksnykh tantal-niobiy-redkozemelnykh mestorozhdeniy Rossii. Tez. Dokl. «Redkie metally: mineralno-syrevaya baza, osvoenie, proizvodstvo, potreblenie» (Prospects of the rational development of complex Russian tantalum-niobium-rare earth deposits. Thesis of a report «Rare metals: mineral resources base, developing, production, consumption»). Moscow : IMGRE, 2011. pp. 106–107

11. Korotkiy V. M., Melentev G. B., Samonov A. E. Khimiya i Biznes – Chemistry and Business. 2010. No. 1/2 (105/106). pp. 60–65.

12. Samonov A. E., Samonov A. A. Khimiya i Biznes – Chemistry and Business. 2006. No. 6. pp. 57–61.

13. Samonov A. E., Melentev G. B., Vanshin Yu. V. Perspektivy kompleksnoy pererabotki fosfogipsa na OOO «Balakovskie mineralnye udobreniya» s polucheniem vysokolikvidnoy tovarnoy produktsii. Materialy Vserossiyskoy nauchno-prakticheskoy konferentsii «Ekologiya: sintez estestvenno-nauchnogo, tekhnicheskogo i gumanitarnogo znaniya» (Prospects of a complex processing of a phosphogypsum at the LLC “Balakovsk chemical fertilizers” with obtaining the highly liquid marketable products. Materials of All-Russian research and practice Conference «Ecology: synthesis of natural-science, technical and humanitarian knowledge»). Saratov : SGTU, 2010. pp. 55–61.

14. Samonov A. E. Formy kontsentratsii redkikh metallov v fosfogipsovykh otkhodakh promyshlennoy pererabotki khibinskogo apatita. Tez. dokl. «Redkie metally: mineralno-syrevaya baza, osvoenie, proizvodstvo, potreblenie» (Forms of rare metals` concentration in the phosphogypsum wastes of the industrial processing of Chibinen apatite. Thesis of a report «Rare metals: mineral resources base, developing, production, consumption»). Moscow : IMGRE, 2011. pp. 134–137.