The main directions of technologic modernization in the field of subsurface resources management

• Published in: Economy of Region
• Main Authors: Vyacheslav Petrovich Pakhomov, Elena Aleksandrovna Atamanova
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Russian
• Published: Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch 2011
• Subjects: technological modernization; mineral-raw sector of the economy; subsurface resources management; Regional economics. Space in economics; HT388; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.17059/2011-3-22; https://doaj.org/article/416c23485c4f4dd18cf570669d24d085

One of the priorities of Russia's transition to post-industrial development is the upgrade of mineral resources sector as a major system-building industry which includes exploration, extraction, refining, transportation and processing of minerals. The main directions of modernization in the subsoil resources management are improvement of methods and technologies under exploration, automation and computerization of work and equipment at the stages of production and transportation of mineral resources, improvement of equipment and technology with the use of nanotechnology in the stages of enrichment and processing of mineral raw materials. Actual direction of modernization in the ore mining industry today is creation and improvement of techniques and technologies to work in the northern climate according to the Program of subsoil resources development of the North and the Arctic shelf. Due to the exhaustion of large raw mineral deposits and geological complexity of the conditions of mining, there is a need for new types of mining and extraction equipment in the industry and development of processes to extract minerals from the non-traditional raw materials.