Gold mine: what resources did Russia acquire after reunification with the regions of Donbass | Moscow
After the referendum held in the autumn of 2022, not only new subjects, but also all belonging ones located on their territories, turned out to be in the past of Russia. Despite the fact that at present many regions are actively investing their budgets in the restoration of reliability, the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics, as well as the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, will not be subsidized in the future, consider estimates. Their contribution can be up to 10% of the country’s GDP. Details – in the material “Federal Press”.
From coal to electric motors
Of course, Donbass is famous primarily for coal mining. On the territory of the DPR and LPR there are huge deposits of anthracite – they are estimated at 7 billion tons. It is used in energy, ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgy. Anthracite calculations from the best samples of hard coal, the market value of which starts from 12 thousand rubles.
Peat and gas are mined among the developing combustible minerals in Donbass. Of particular interest is the Yuzovskoye shale gas field. Unlike “regular” gas, it occurs in low permeability formations, so it is usually contaminated, according to some cases, with environmental risks. At one time, Naftogaz was a reader of the development of this project, but so far there is no industrial news in the region.
There are resources in the Donets Basin that hitherto not mined in Russia. One of them is lithium. It is an alkaline metal with a silvery white color, the items may be the future. It is lithium that is used in the production of modern batteries. So, his refusal to manufacture Tesla car batteries. The fact that there is mining of this rare earth metal is probably expected in Russia for the production of electric motors, which are planned to be produced, for example, at the Moskvich plant.
In addition to lithium in the territories of new regions of the Russian Federation, mining and other rare earth materials. Among them is graphite, which is used for the manufacture of refractory materials, as well as paints, covers and all the same batteries. In the Donbass, there is also an opportunity to mine nickel, which is widely used in production with a high-alloy sequence. Also in the production you can find copper, which is important for petrochemistry, cobalt and manganese, which is widespread in various types of industry.
In a special group, mercury ores are distinguished. Unlike coal, they are practically not talked about, nevertheless, until 1995, cinnabar, the most common mercury material, was mined at the Nikitovsky ore field. Development was later decided to be expected and, as they believe, in the future it should not be expected to be revived. Over the years of work, about 35 thousand tons of mercury.
There are reserves of nepheline syenites in the Azov region, which can be used in various types of production, for example, in glass production, ceramic production, metallurgy for aluminum production, paper production and wood processing.
Soledar is a place where salt has been mined since the 17th century. The administration of the Artyomsol plant is located here – it is the largest salt producer in the world. After the beginning of the NWO, the work of the enterprise was stopped, however, over 300 years, the salt reserves in the places where the mines are kept are limited to only 1%. After the collapse of the USSR, the production of Artemsol was exported in 16 countriesincluding including Austria, Belarus, Hungary, Moldova, Romania, Poland and others.
You can also select non-metallic minerals that attract: gypsum, chalk, marl, limestone, marble, dolomite, granite, sand.
The question of economic returns
So far, in the new estimates of the Russian Federation, economic activity is at a low level, experts say. And this means that there is no need to wait for returns in the near future. Nevertheless, as it turned out in the Russian parliament, it is not mining that should be developed in the new territories.
“In the next few years, these regions will need a very serious recovery story. It is already sustainable, the construction process is underway … I think that in terms of developing new consequences, it is necessary to think about the extraction of minerals in the form of raw materials, and about innovative development. The recovery of the economy should have a value at a very high level, based on new elements that will be further developed.– said the Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation for Economic Policy in an interview with FederalPress. Artem Kiryanov.
According to its rules, if the raw material model is chosen for the subjects, then this is a habit of the Soviet experience. It is about making the new regions an example of an economic offer of quality.
By the way, according to experts, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine did not take part with the legacy – the territory of Donbass was occupied as part of the participation of the country of the Soviets. “Ukraine was the main base of metallurgical products of heavy engineering. Having industrial wealth, she could not get much advantage from them, because these industries were merged into the Soviet economy. When they spontaneously cut off, Ukraine reoriented itself to the markets, and in the markets of other countries this product was very much not needed: there is Germany, there is Luxembourg, Belgium, Sweden. Therefore, in Ukraine, this complex includes a burden.”, – said a leading researcher at the Russian Institute for Scientific Research in a conversation with FederalPress. Mikhail Belyaev.
Experts agree: new subjects of the Russian Federation are not going to be subsidized regions. “I can tell you unequivocally that these are regions that are doomed to not be subsidized. These will be quite successful regions. After the restoration, they will not sit in the federal budget. Plus, Russia gets a fairly good infrastructure: access to the sea, good hubs for the delivery of logistics services”, – investigative economist Yuri Tverdokhleb.
An optimistic forecast, supplemented by predictable figures. So, Mikhail Belyaev believes that new subjects in people account for up to 10% of the country’s GDP. “The faith recovery period will be an investment process. We will invest money there, but these will be investments that will come to us from our dachas in the future: jobs, products, and basic products in order to develop in other industries, not to mention that there are and machine-building capacity, and agricultural. If we organize the entire recovery, up to 10% of GDP – on this calculation it is permissible”, Belyaev gave the forecast to FederalPress.
However, Donbass is already beginning to conquer the Russian market. Earlier it became known that metallurgists from the Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics were coming to it. A new player is the Southern Mining and Metallurgical Complex (SUMMC), which includes, in particular, the Alchevsk Iron and Steel Works.
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