Minerals are mineral formations, which are located in the crust.Due to the physical and chemical properties, they are used in various areas of industrial production.Minerals can be gaseous, solid or liquid.
Mineral formation occur in the form of different types of clusters.They can be represented by stocks, deposits, layers, conductors.Those places where discovered minerals, called fields.Discipline, which develops such is called mining.
Depending on their practical or technical properties, minerals are used in one way or another industrial sector.
to combustible mineral formations include oil, coal, shale, natural gas, peat and other resources, which are formed during the processing of thermal energy.
mining and chemical clusters include mineral salts, borates, phosphates and other substances.They are used in the mining and chemical industries.
different type of minerals are hydro accumulations.They are presented in the form of groundwater.
to mineral formations also include precious stones and gems.
There are also non-metallic minerals.They are represented by deposits of apatite, phosphorite, rock and potassium salts, marl, limestone.This category also includes, and mineral formations such as sandstone, clay, sulfur, asbestos, graphite, mica, quartz, marble, fluorspar and other.
apatite and phosphorite are used as feedstock for the production of phosphate fertilizers.The largest deposit of apatite mine Khibinskaya considered.It is located on the Kola Peninsula.His balance reserves for estimated in the order of 2.7 billion tons.Apatite ore that are mined in this area, are supplied to the country superphosphate plants.In addition, they are also the raw material basis for the production of alumina due to the high content of nepheline.
Phosphorites mainly occur in the European part of Russia.The largest deposits are considered to Vyatka-Kama, it is located in the Kirov region.Considered large enough clusters in Moscow, Bryansk, Kursk, Leningrad region.In Chuvashia and Bashkortostan also found some phosphorite deposits.
To produce potash salt is used the same name.In the Urals, in the Perm region is located Verkhnekamskoye.It is considered the largest accumulation of potassium salts.It contains the major share of all stocks of raw materials in Russia.Balance reserves account for about 21.7 billion tons.
pyrite and sulfur used for the manufacture of sulfuric acid.Large deposits of the substance found in the North Caucasus (Dagestan), the Samara region and the Far East.Pyrites in large amounts within the territory of the Urals.Here it is located and accumulation of salt.Large deposits are Verkhnekamskoye and Iletsk.In addition, salt is mined in the Lower Volga region in Eastern Siberia and the Far East.
Mica mined in the Murmansk region and the Republic of Karelia, as well as in northern Siberia, the Urals and the Far East.
Ore minerals include color, black ore and precious metals.
Today, mining is one of the priority industries.This is mainly due to the fact that education is an important mineral raw material, ensuring the functioning of the different systems and structures.Mining stocks earth is carried out using various special techniques by experienced qualified staff.
