The transition of the national economy to market relations has a protracted character and is accompanied by a number of crisis phenomena. They are particularly acute in the investment sphere, primarily in the form of reduced investment in the development of production.

Since January 1, 1991, new norms of depreciation deductions began to operate in the national economy of the country. In the process of their implementation should create economic conditions for active renewal of fixed assets and acceleration of scientific and technological progress in sectors of the national economy, reducing the cost of capital repairs of physically worn-out funds.

Improvement of management of reproduction of fixed production assets (FPA) - the most important direction of increasing the efficiency of public production.

One of the largest and most difficult tasks of economic intensification is the task of ensuring intensive use of fixed production assets

The level of efficiency of the use of fixed assets of mining enterprises is formed at all stages of the reproduction process, long before the moment of their creation and operation.

When solving the problem of optimizing the service life of machinery and equipment, the main thing is the choice of economic criterion. As such a criterion in different periods proposed the equality of costs for the next overhaul of the current and acquisition of new machines, profitability of products, reduced costs, average industry annual economic effect from the replacement of existing machines ...

The dependence of return on assets on the duration of operation of mining enterprises has not been sufficiently studied. Determining it would allow more sound planning of return on assets, taking into account the age characteristics of enterprises, and the availability of quantitative estimates that characterize the relationship “return on assets – age of the enterprise” would contribute to improving the level of sectoral forecasting of return on assets ...

With the expansion of the USSR's foreign economic relations, the use of imported equipment in industry is increasing. In 1975, machinery, equipment, and vehicles accounted for 33.9% of the total imports of the USSR, or 9,045.7 million rubles. Deliveries of imported equipment for underground and open-pit mining are increasing intensively. ...

Open-pit mining in the USSR is continuously growing. In 1975, open-pit coal production compared with 1970 will increase by 52.2-55.2 million tons and will amount to 205.5-208.5 million tons, or 30% of the total coal production in the country. In 1980 and 2000, the share of surface coal mining will be, respectively, 40-45 and about 70% of the total coal production in the USSR. ...