It doesn’t matter at what age you study your native land. It is important to know what it is. Where is it and what is rich. What are the minerals of the Stavropol Territory. For 4 classes or for any other age category this information will be interesting.
The main resources of the region
Most of the Stavropol Territory is located within the same hill. Its northern and eastern parts smoothly pass into the lowlands, and the southern and southwestern parts go to the foothills of the Greater Caucasus. Minerals of the Stavropol Territory were discovered in three hundred deposits. In a percentage ratio of about 40 percent of the resources of Stavropol, it is necessary for construction materials, on the one hand, and oil and gas, on the other. A tenth of the resources are water. The remaining tenth is accounted for by other mineral resources. In addition, deposits of polymetallic ores contain small amounts of radioactive uranium.
Construction Materials
If you list the minerals of the Stavropol Territory, you should start with the resources that are used in construction. A quarry in the Pelagiad is being developed near Stavropol itself. It produces construction sand, as well as crushed stone and stone.
The rare city of Stavropol has no houses built from the materials of this quarry. The valleys of the Kuban and Malki rivers are rich in significant deposits of sand and gravel mixtures. In total, in the territory of Stavropol Territory there are over two hundred deposits in which building materials are mined, such as sand and gravel, building sand and stone, expanded clay. The volume of these deposits exceeds 800 million cubic meters. With current volumes of extraction from the bowels of the earth, these reserves will be enough for more than thirty years. At the same time, a significant number of deposits can be further explored in order to increase reserves.
Oil production in the Stavropol Territory
The first answer of local residents to the question: “What minerals are in the Stavropol Territory?” - there will be "oil". The neighboring Krasnodar Territory is considered the first region of Russia where oil production was commenced commercially. This happened in the mid-nineteenth century. Not much later, in the same century, the Stavropol Territory also joined the oil-producing regions of Russia. To date, forty-eight oil fields are known. Reserves of "black gold" are estimated at eighty million tons. The most famous deposit in Stavropol is Praskoveyskoye. It is the most significant. But most of the fields are rated as unprofitable, because the oil in them is located in remote places for production. However, the existing production volumes are so high that oil reserves, according to experts, remain only for a decade.
Gas fields
Hydrocarbon-containing minerals of the Stavropol Territory, in addition to oil, also include gas. Seventeen gas deposits with a capacity of almost fifty million cubic meters. The largest reserves were discovered in three deposits - Mirnensky, Sengileevsky and North-Stavropol-Pelagiadinsky. The material component of the wells is significantly worn out and not updated. Field development reaches seventy percent. All this has led to the fact that over the past quarter century, the volume of production has decreased by half. The current state of things does not allow us to hope for an increase in gas production in the coming years.
Solid minerals
Some minerals of the Stavropol Territory are quite unique. In particular, this definition refers to deposits of titanium-zirconium sand. Less than ten percent of this type of raw material is extracted from Russian subsoil, the rest is imported. But in the Stavropol Territory this sand is available, thanks to the Beshpagir deposit.
The layer thickness of this field reaches a five-meter mark, and the deposits themselves are located at a depth of twenty meters. You should also pay attention to the deposits of quartz sand from the Spassky and Blagodarnensky deposits. They are also rare, because they have excellent quality: they have a significant amount of silica and practically do not include impurities. Therefore, its application is wide. Apart from the standard production of glass containers, quartz sand from Stavropol finds use in the manufacture of devices for medicine and optics, mirrors and crystal.
Hydromineral Potential
If you ask the residents of the rest of Russia if they know what they are mining in the Stavropol Territory, they will certainly remember the mineral waters. In the foothills of the Caucasus, a naturally isolated territory was formed naturally, which was called the Caucasian Mineral Waters. In a fairly small space there are a lot of sources, more than forty species.
Here there are sources of canteens, medicinal and simply medicinal waters. Among them, there are also radon, silicon, glandular, iodine-bromide, bitter-salty. The Tambukan mud field also attracts visitors from all over Russia. One and a half million vacationers annually visit a relatively small area of the Caucasian Mineral Waters, while less than twenty percent of the region’s hydro-mineral potential is used to meet their demand.