Prospects for the development of mineral resources of the largest mining enterprises in the short and long term periods of their activity. Part I. Copper, iron

Abstract

On the basis of stock and published materials, the article reveals some potential of the earth's interior of the Republic, showing the possibility of expanding the mineral resource base of existing mining enterprises by reassessing and reassessing near-surface and searching for new deposits of medium and large depths. In the future, the creation of new territorial industrial complexes in some ore regions of Kazakhstan on the basis of approved reserves and projected mineral resources is not excluded. It is noted that: for copper, in addition to copper-porphyry, there are great prospects for identifying coppery sandstones and shales; according to iron assessment, numerous geological and geophysical anomalies that have not been sufficiently or not studied at all, which have prospects for searching for deposits of both shallow, medium and large depths; It is recommended to reinterpret materials over the area of a large number of ore body outcrops, collapses and ore occurrences and consider them as criteria for prospecting for either deep deposits or placer prospecting; for bauxite raw materials - significant reserves are projected in areas of known deposits and ore occurrences, certain reserves can be identified in deposits of mining and mining chemical raw materials and, most importantly, analyze materials on depressions with coal deposits, under which large and super-large (unique) Аl₂О₃ resources can be concentrated, as well as pay special attention to non-bauxite aluminum raw materials, where researchers predicted billions of dollars in reserves  Аl₂О₃. It is concluded that existing and newly created enterprises will be provided with raw materials for many years.