Minerals of the Novosibirsk region: description, list, names and deposit

Minerals of the Novosibirsk region are quite numerous: on the whole territory 83 deposits of 523 already explored are exploited. Here there is coal - and coking, and high-quality anthracite, there are refractory clays. A lot of peat, but it is not produced yet. There are oil, gas, non-ferrous metals and gold.

Coal

Only in the Gorlovsky Basin high-quality anthracite has been explored in almost a billion tons, and forecasts are even more optimistic - 5.6 billion tons. Two more coal-bearing basins are Doroninsky and Zavyalovsky, where there is a lot of coal too. Since 2007, Novosibirsk coal is explored and developed under the licenses of OOO Best and OAO Region-Oil. The minerals of the Novosibirsk region are mostly conserved and are waiting for the development of industry to start production.

The deposits of anthracite coal in the Gorlovsky Basin are the only raw materials base for all the eastern regions of Russia, since this raw material is needed by the electrode industry. The largest Russian plant is NovEZ (Novosibirsk Electrode Plant). Such coal for the enterprise is extracted by JSC "Siberian Anthracite". The remaining deposits of minerals in the Novosibirsk region, concerning coal, are not developed so widely.

Oil and natural gas

Seven oil fields are open in the north-western regions, but they are being withdrawn from service postenenno, despite the fact that there are abundant mineral resources in the Novosibirsk region. List of deposits:

• Upper-Tarskoe;
• East-Tarska;
• Maloichskoe;
• Rakitinsky;
• Tai-Das;
• East-Mezhovskoye:
• East.

One deposit - Veselovskoye - gas condensate. All the oil, explored in the area, of high quality, close to the brand Brent. The occurrence of the most productive layers - an average of two and a half thousand meters. The largest deposit is Verkh-Tarskoye, where there are more than sixty percent of all oil that is in the region. Only two are exploited - Maloichskoye and Verkh-Tarskoe, where the projected reserves are more than one hundred and thirteen million tons.

Other minerals

The Novosibirsk region was lucky with peat reserves - they are more than seven billion tons, but the extraction and processing costs are too high, therefore, peat deposits are almost not developed, most likely so far.

A fairly large ore deposit of non-ferrous metals was discovered in the Novosibirsk region, there are approximately 1.7 million tons of titanium dioxide and 7.2 million tons of zirconia. The exploration and development of the Filippovsky site (Ordynsky zirkon-ilmenite placer) is being carried out.

Gold

According to industrial measures, there is little gold in the Novosibirsk region-one ore deposit and twenty-four loose ones are estimated at only seventeen tons. Both types of deposits - both alluvial placers, and gold-bearing weathering crusts - are suitable for open-pit mining. However, the gold-bearing minerals of the Novosibirsk region are not exhausted by them: on the territory there is a root gold - gold-quartz, gold-rare metal, gold-polymetallic, if we talk about ore-formation types.

It was explored about forty tons, according to forecasts in the north-west of the Salair ridge (Yegoryevsky gold-dispersed region). An analysis of this resource base suggests that almost all placers are worked out and developed, and further development of gold mining requires the search and evaluation of new deposits, which for sure there is. And, of course, you need to develop gold deposits of other industrial types. Moreover, mining enterprises are provided with work only for the next few years, further prospects for the raw materials base are very small.

Marble, tin, aluminum

Vysokodekorativny marble and other expensive facing stones of increased demand in the amount of eight and a half million square meters contain minerals Novosibirsk region. Names of deposits:

• Petenevskoe (the best deposit);
• Shipunovskoye (marble limestones);
• Serebrennikovskoe (the same).

The fields are developed by "Marble" LLC.

It is difficult to enumerate what minerals are in the Novosibirsk region, since there are many of them, but not all of them will be developed. For example, two small-scale small deposits of tin - Barlakskoye and Kolyvanskoe - about six hundred tons in total are clearly unprofitable: the average content in tin-bearing placers of casserite is about half a gram per cubic meter. Cadastre records also hold two bauxite deposits - Oktyabrskoye and Novogodnee, where the balance reserves - 2068 thousand tons. The reserves of aluminum in this ore are also small.

Cement, clay, glass

The Chernorechenskoye deposit in the Iskitim district has reserves of cement raw materials: 88,900 tons of limestone in the northern sector, 2,013,000 tons of shale in the Slate sector, 38,163,000 tons of the first class limestone and 223776 tons of the second section in the southern section. This deposit is developed by ZAO Chernorechensky Quarry.

Refractory and refractory clays are found in four deposits: Doroginsky, Evsinsky and Vassinsky - refractory, and on Obskoy - refractory. Here works "Universal" (Ceramic products factory). Already taken into account are three small quartz sand deposits of about 8150 thousand tons of the first category and 875 thousand tons of the second one. The right to use these subsoil resources is owned by LLC "Siberian Industrial Holding", which transferred this right to its subsidiary LLC "Mineral Group".

Building materials

Deposits of building materials are usually the most common. In the Novosibirsk region, eighteen deposits of only a building stone are accounted for, thirteen of them are exploited. Annual production is about two and a half million tons. These are diabases, porphyrites, granites, limestones and other rock. Marble has already been mentioned above, as well as clay. In total, the entire raw-material base of minerals of general distribution here is more than sufficient for own needs and for neighboring areas. New geological searches and exploration of new sites of this raw material are being organized. Only building sands will not be developed, although the deposits are rich. Reasons for environmental protection, as all deposits of construction sand are in the valley and the riverbed of the Ob River.

Besides

In the region there are very large water resources: mineral, thermal and fresh water are extracted from ten thousand wells in the amount of more than half a million cubic meters daily. The forest fund of the Novosibirsk region totals 4,490,000 hectares, including coniferous species growing on the territory of 977,300 hectares. The general stock of wood of the main forest-forming species can be proud - it is estimated at 278.8 million cubic meters.