Authors: S.V. Shaklein, M.V. Pisarenko, T.B. Rogova

Title of the article: Trends in the mineral resource base development of the Kuzbass coal industry

Year: 2024, Issue: 1, Pages: 4-22

Branch of knowledge: 2.8.3 Mining and oil and gas field ge-ology, geophysics, surveying and subsurface geometry (engineering)

Index UDK: 622.33:622.8:622.014.1:622.232:553

DOI: 10.26730/2618-7434-2024-1-4-22

Abstract: Modern assessment of the state of the world coal resources, production, consumption and trading are provided. These parameters directly determine the development strategy for the domestic coal production. The article presents the results of the evolution analysis of the mineral resource base of the Russia and Kuzbass coal industry, and shows that the preservation of the current production rates of coking coal in the future can be only achieved through the underground mining method. It is noted that the quality of the mineral resource base of Kuzbass does not meet the existing technological requirements of the industry. Inevitable transition to an intensive path of the coal industry, which is consist in the development of new mining technologies allowing the exploitation of previously unclaimed resources, is pointed out. The transition to the new development paradigm implies the recognition of the coal seams with specific morphology as the hard-to-recover mineral resources.

Key words: resource base balance resources State balance sheet of coal resources mining technology requirements hard-to-recover resources

Receiving date: 19.01.2024

Approval date: 24.03.2024

Publication date: 23.05.2024

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