People who are not closely familiar with the Krasnoyarsk Territory associate this area primarily with the vast expanses of Siberia, huge rivers and, of course, the Tunguska meteorite. The main river of this territory is the Yenisei, which serves as a natural border dividing Siberia into Western and Eastern. Based on this, we can say that the Krasnoyarsk Territory is Central Siberia.
Great we alth of a vast territory
One can briefly assess the Krasnoyarsk Territory: mining is a city-forming factor here. The territory of the region is huge, it makes up almost fourteen percent of the area of Russia, which is much larger than most of the states of the planet. But this area is practically uninhabited. Inhabited is the southern part of the region and dotted - places of mining. But with the reserves of the earth's interior in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, everything is in perfect order. More than ten thousand deposits and ore manifestations of various mineral resources have been discovered here. The minerals of the Krasnoyarsk Territory are richmetals: out of seventy known metals, deposits of sixty-three have been found. And deposits of nickel and platinoids make up almost ninety-five percent of the total Russian reserves. Nickel-containing polymetallic ores are the most famous minerals of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Their photos are presented in the article.
More than twenty percent of Russia's gold-bearing ores are located within the region. In addition, there are significant deposits of rather rare cob alt and nepheline ores. Magnesite, Icelandic spar, fine quartzite sands, refractory clays and graphite have also been found here. Large coal reserves are developed mainly in two coal basins - Kansk-Achinsk and Tunguska.
The region is rich in oil and gas deposits. A total of twenty-five deposits have been discovered, the largest of them being the Vankorskoye and the Yurubchensky block. The lead deposits of one of the largest deposits in the world - Gorevsky - account for more than forty percent of the total Russian reserves. The Meimecha-Kotui apatite province is rich in apatite raw materials, where more than twenty percent of all apatites in the country are concentrated. The Chuktukon deposit of rare earth metals, the largest in Russia, is promising. The development of deposits of manganese, aluminum and uranium ores will begin soon.
Coal resources
The Krasnoyarsk Territory ranks first in Russia in terms of the presence of the main twenty-three types of mineral resources. Minerals related to fuel and energy (coal,oil, gas), then there are deposits of ferrous and non-ferrous metals and, finally, reserves of rare and precious metals. You should consider these resources in more detail.
Geological coal reserves of the region make up seventy percent of the total Russian. The main part of more than a hundred coal deposits in the territory of the region falls on the Kansk-Achinsk coal basin. The remaining deposits are part of the Tunguska, Taimyr and Minussinsk basins. Minerals of the Krasnoyarsk Territory of this type are estimated at seventy-five billion tons. Given the current production volumes, the resources are considered almost inexhaustible, they will last for a millennium. The increased development of the Kansko-Achinsk coals in comparison with other regions is explained by the location of this basin near the Trans-Siberian Railway.
Hydrocarbons
Mineral resources of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, rich in hydrocarbons, include more than twenty deposits. Most of them are considered large. The largest hydrocarbon deposits are located in the fields of the Vankor group, which belong to the Turukhansky and Taimyr regions, as well as in the fields of the Yurubcheno-Takhomsky zone in the southern part of Evenkia.
Explored oil reserves in the region are almost one and a half billion tons, and gas - almost two trillion cubic meters. Oil at the current rate of production will last for twenty years, and gas, like coal, for a whole millennium.
Metal minerals
Sixty-six deposits of ferrous and non-ferrous metals have huge reserves. Iron ore reserves are estimated at more than four billion tons. The content of lead and zinc in the bowels of the Krasnoyarsk Territory is estimated at several million tons, and copper-nickel ores - at tens of millions of tons. When answering the question of what minerals are mined in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, I immediately want to mention nickel.
But besides him, in the world-famous Norilsk mining region, copper, cob alt, and platinum are being mined. There are also many rare earth metals. The minerals of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, contained in fifteen polymetallic deposits, amount to tens of thousands of tons. There is cob alt, niobium, selenium, cadmium and other metals. The Yenisei Ridge with the adjacent Siberian Platform, in addition to gold, is rich in deposits of bauxite and nepheline ores - raw materials for aluminum production. In the Gorevsky polymetallic deposit, a unique content of lead and zinc was found - more than six percent. In addition, other metals, including silver, are mined from these same ores. For example, only silver reserves in the Krasnoyarsk Territory amount to fifteen thousand tons.
There are more than three hundred deposits of precious metals. The main deposits of platinoids are concentrated in the northern regions.
Gold edge
Gold is mined in more than a hundred countries around the world. In terms of its production, Russia is in fifth place, although in terms of volumeexplored reserves - on the third. One fifth of the reserves of Russian gold falls on the minerals of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Gold is explored here in three hundred deposits. The leading place among them belongs to the deposits, which are located on the Yenisei Ridge. The unofficial capital of the region's gold miners is located just in the North Yenisei region.
Another place of gold deposits are deposits of polymetallic ores near Norilsk and in the Taimyr-Severozemelsky regions. Insignificant placers of precious metal are found in small northern rivers, but it is not economically profitable to mine it. And taking into account the fact that all known gold deposits have been in development for more than a decade, the resource base is shrinking.
Nonmetals
Reserves of non-metallic minerals in the bowels of the Krasnoyarsk land are enough for hundreds of years of active development. Flux limestone, graphite, apatite, refractory and refractory clays, quartz and molding sand are mined in more than 100 deposits of the region. Graphite deposits are important for the economy of the whole country. It is mined mainly in the Noginskoye and Kureyskoye deposits on the Central Siberian Plateau. The Popigai ring structure in the northern regions of the region is rich in unique deposits of commercial diamonds. These deposits have very high potential and are under development. The region has explored deposits of jadeite and jade. In addition, chrysolites, quartzites and tourmaline were found here. In the bins of the region there are reserves of amber and datolite, serpentine andmarble onyx.
Building minerals and mineral waters
Minerals in the Krasnoyarsk Territory are also mined for construction. Their reserves, like other minerals, are very significant, but they are lost against the background of metal and energy deposits. But construction and facing stone, building sand and gravel, gypsum and many other building materials are mined here.
Deposits of these minerals in the region are more than three hundred. Granite and limestone are mined literally near Krasnoyarsk. Against this background, the presence of twelve deposits with saturated groundwater in the Krasnoyarsk Territory is almost imperceptible. Active exploitation is carried out in three: Kozhanovskoye, Nanzhulsky and Tagarsky.
