M.B.KUZMIN, A.G.KRASAVIN, L.P.RYZHOVA

Russia

 

The ways to and perspectives

of the rational use of mineral resources

 

 

     The interests for scientifically based rational use of the earth and of its resources predetermine the necessity to focus the efforts on clearing up:

-         conditions for preparations of developing mineral resources basis of countries in the world,

-         experience with exploitation in countries with progressive mining industry, maximally disclosing geological values of ore deposits,

-         consistent (consecutive) analysis of prospecting oriented to estimate potential exploitation possibilities.

 

     The analysis should be oriented to both perfection and development of existing exploration systems and on trends determining the most effective systems that make it possible to intensify possibilities of planning final goals for any real situation. The ways and perspectives of a sustainable development of countries in the world community seem to be a general problem for ensuring a high quality of the natural environment in various aspects of its display permitting to clear up contents, sense and interests that have determined social responsibility of Earth sciences representatives.

 

     The interests for the sustainable development of countries in the world community have to be determined under both subjective and objective criteria of development in time units ensured from the point of view of tactical and strategic planning of goals. By this way it is unavoidable to consider strategic planning of goals as both floating and long term moments. They correspond to the interests of economic, social and ecological welfare in continuous uninterrupted situation. This situation is becoming more and more complicated in countries of the international economic community where natural resources are used both intensively and purposefully.

 

     The contemporaneous life needs new approaches showing flexibility in the policy of interests and values orientations – devoted to secrets of values scales that make the nations in countries of the world community different and what has to determine ways and perspectives of exploitation of mineral resources. Therefore the efforts of geoethics – i.e. our own efforts – have to be oriented toward a control of developing regional strategic planning of goals in the world economics, influx of capital and investments, export and import of high tech production as well as personal policy by ensuring high technology for science, production and culture and by determining the motion in international economic relations.

 

     A very serious role is assigned to the informatics field of effectiveness of the mineral resources use. It consists in a motion: where to move, who is determining the motion, how is it modified, what will prevail and what is determining market forces of the raw materials corresponding to technical possibilities of countries in the international economic community.

 

     In our views for assuring a reasonable action it is necessary at the same time to examine international markets of raw materials emphasizing geoethics where actual problems of incorporating effective ways and systems of industrial exploitation of ore deposits in a given time régime are taken into consideration. This seems to be a serious factor for mastering enrichment processes, chemical and metallurgical as well as electrometallurgical distribution corresponding to the mining processes and parameters. The final goal is to be seen in determining floats of mineral raw materials ensuring continuous improvement of technical and economic indices in geological and mining processes becoming uninterruptedly more and more difficult.

 

     The collection and treatment of input data and materials should be followed by the evaluation based on the geometry of respective mineral resources. The input data and materials should concern the distribution of useful components and of their physical and mechanical properties in the ore body (observed completely and reliably), using geo-chemical methods for identifying gaseous – fluid inclusions and other types of raw materials and geochemical hallos. This is unavoidable for evaluating specificities of applying and using self-propelled technical equipment. Such an approach opens the possibilities to the most effective technology for exploitation of the deposit. This has to correspond to the specific character of the technological mapping system increasing quality of underground exploitation, i.e. the most reasonable functioning of the mines that corresponds to the needs for planning final goals. In this context the system properties become stronger by taking into consideration new possibilities of technological mapping determining geological as well as industrial and technical values of individual deposits in both national and international interests of countries in the world community.

 

     The greatest interest in the world exploitation of mineral reserves is presented by exploitation systems in which specificities of a self-propelled technical equipment correspond to the concept of reasonable sufficiency taking into account variability in the distribution of useful components in the ore body, their physical and mechanical properties and enrichment possibilities. Such needs can be fulfilled by an exploitation system with a wood pavement output of the ore where potential ecological, industrial and technological values of the ore are maximally disclosed.

 

     Systems with the wood pavement output of the ore, their real and potential possibilities are founded in a flexible operative control system that is characterized by:

-         technological processes and parameters in conditions of the given time operatively controlling the raw materials quality,

-         loading and delivery of ore by self-propelled engines in conditions of the given time,

-         estimating a choice of the most effective technological solutions for realizing reliable and long term planning.

 

     This makes it possible to pass on geological and technological mapping and to choose the most effective orientation for planning goals for reasonable functioning of ore mines at any given time moment taking into consideration needs and possibilities of future generations.