For people who are not familiar with the Krasnoyarsk Territory, this area is associated primarily with the vast Siberian expanses, 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.
Huge wealth of a vast territory
You can so briefly assess the Krasnoyarsk Territory: mining is the main 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 not populated. The southern part of the region is populated and, pointwise, the place of mining. But with the reserves of the earth's bowels in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, everything is in order. Over ten thousand deposits and ore occurrences of various mineral resources have been discovered here. Minerals of the Krasnoyarsk Territory are rich in metals: sixty-three deposits have been found out of seventy known metals. And deposits of nickel and platinoids account for almost ninety-five percent of all-Russian reserves. Nickel-containing polymetallic ores are the most famous minerals of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Photos of them are presented in the article.
More than twenty percent of gold-bearing ores in Russia are located within the region. In addition, there are significant deposits of fairly rare cobalt and nepheline ores. Magnesites, Icelandic spar, fine quartzite sands, refractory clays and graphite are also found here. Large coal reserves are developed mainly in two coal basins - Kansko-Achinsk and Tunguska.
The region is rich in oil and gas deposits. In total, twenty-five deposits have been discovered, the largest of which is Vankorskoye, as well as the Yurubchensky block. Lead deposits of one of the largest deposits in the world - Gorevsky - account for more than forty percent of all-Russian reserves. Meymecha-Kotuy apatite province is rich in apatite raw materials, where more than twenty percent of all the country's apatites are concentrated. The most promising in Russia is the Chuktukon rare-earth metals deposit. In the near future, the development of deposits of manganese, aluminum and uranium ores will begin .
Coal resources
By the presence of the main twenty-three types of mineral resources, the Krasnoyarsk Territory takes first place in Russia. Fossils related to fuel and energy (coal, oil, gas) are of overwhelming value, then there are deposits of ferrous and non-ferrous metals and, finally, reserves of rare and precious metals. These resources should be considered in more detail.
Geological reserves of coal in the region make up seventy percent of the total Russian. The main part of more than one hundred coal deposits in the region falls on the Kansk-Achinsky coal basin. The remaining deposits are part of the Tunguska, Taimyr and Minussa basins. Minerals of the Krasnoyarsk Territory of this type are estimated at seventy-five billion tons. Given the current production volumes, resources are considered practically inexhaustible, they will last for a millennium. The increased development of the Kansk-Achinsk coals compared to other regions is explained by the location of this basin near the Trans-Siberian Railway.
Hydrocarbons
Minerals of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, rich in hydrocarbons, account for 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 deposits of the Yurubcheno-Takhomsky zone in the southern part of Evenkia.
Explored oil reserves in the region - 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.
Metallic Minerals
Huge reserves are possessed by sixty-six deposits of ferrous and non-ferrous metals. Iron ore reserves are estimated at more than four billion tons. The lead and zinc contents in the bowels of the Krasnoyarsk Territory are estimated at several million tons, and copper-nickel ores at tens of millions of tons. When answering the question, 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, cobalt, and platinum are mined. There are many rare earth metals . Minerals of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, contained in fifteen polymetallic deposits, amount to tens of thousands of tons. There is cobalt, niobium, selenium, cadmium and other metals. The Yenisei Ridge with the adjacent Siberian Platform, in addition to gold, is rich in bauxite and nepheline ore deposits - raw materials for aluminum production. A unique content of lead and zinc was discovered in the Gorevsky polymetallic deposit - more than six percent. In addition, other metals, including silver, are mined from the same ores. For example, only silver reserves in the Krasnoyarsk Territory are estimated at fifteen thousand tons.
More than three hundred noble metal deposits are available. 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. Russia is in fifth place in terms of its production, although in third place in terms of explored reserves. A fifth of Russia's gold reserves are in the minerals of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Gold has been explored in three hundred deposits. The leading place among them belongs to deposits that are located on the Yenisei Ridge. The unofficial capital of gold miners of the region 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 districts. There are insignificant placers of precious metal in small northern rivers, but it is economically unprofitable to mine it. And taking into account the fact that all the known gold deposits have not been under development for the first ten years, the resource base is narrowing.
Non-metals
The reserves of non-metallic minerals in the bowels of the Krasnoyarsk land are enough for hundreds of years of active development. Flux limestones, graphite, apatite, refractory and refractory clays, quartz and foundry 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 Noginsk and Kureisk deposits on the Central Siberian plateau. The popigai ring structure in the northern regions of the region is rich in unique deposits of industrial diamonds. These deposits have a very high potential and are under development. The region has proven deposits of jadeite and jade. In addition, chrysolites, quartzites and tourmaline are found here. In the bins of the region there are reserves of amber and datolith, a coil and marble onyx.
Minerals and mineral waters
Minerals in the Krasnoyarsk Territory are mined and construction. Their reserves, like other minerals, are very significant, but are lost against the background of metal and energy deposits. But there is mining of building and facing stone, building sand and gravel, gypsum and many other building materials.
There are more than three hundred deposits of these minerals in the territory of the region. Granite and limestone are mined literally near Krasnoyarsk. Against this background, the presence in the Krasnoyarsk Territory of twelve deposits with saturated groundwater is almost imperceptible. Active operation is carried out in three: Kozhanovsky, Nanzhulsky and Tagarsky.