Prospects for the development of mineral resources of the largest mining enterprises in the short and long term periods of their activity. Part II. Chrome, bauxites

Abstract

Based on 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 re-evaluating and re-evaluating near-surface and searching for new deposits of medium and deep depths. In the future, the creation of new territorial industrial complexes in some ore regions of Kazakhstan on the basis of approved reserves and predicted mineral resources is not ruled out. It is noted that: for copper, in addition to porphyry copper, there are great prospects for identifying cuprous sandstones and shales; according to the iron-estimation, numerous geological and geophysical anomalies are insufficiently or not studied at all, which have prospects for the search for deposits of both small, medium and large depths; in a chrome way, it is recommended to perform a reinterpretation of materials on the area of a large number of outcrops of ore bodies, collapses and ore occurrences and consider them as criteria for prospecting for either deep deposits or placers; for bauxite raw materials, significant reserves are predicted in areas of known deposits and ore occurrences, certain reserves can be identified in deposits of mining and mining and chemical raw materials and, most importantly, analyze materials on depressions with coal deposits, under which large and super-large (unique) Al₂O₃ resources, as well as pay special attention to non-bauxite aluminum raw materials, where the researchers predicted billions of Al₂O₃ reserves. It is concluded that existing and newly created enterprises will be provided with raw materials for many years.