Vol 114

An important place in solving the problem of efficiency of social production is occupied by the issue of determining the economic efficiency of geological exploration works (GER), since the allocations for them are growing annually, making up a significant part of the state budget of the country.

Research and development and design organizations of the USSR Ministry of Geology and Mineral Resources perform extensive research, which is an integral part of a single complex of geological exploration.

At the present time in the preparation of design and estimate documentation for the production of geological exploration work (exploration) is used normative base, based on the reference books of consolidated estimated norms (SUSN), published in 1984.

Fuel and energy complexes based on mineral raw materials are characterized by intensive material and energy exchange with the environment, which stimulates the search for new sources of energy.

The course on intensification of social production imposes new requirements to the improvement of the entire production potential of the national economy.

More than 20% of the country's national income and more than 70% of the renovation fund of depreciation charges are spent annually on the expansion and improvement of the main production assets in the national economy.

Acceleration of scientific and technological progress and increase of production efficiency in mining and processing of minerals are inextricably linked with the solution of problems of protection and rational use of natural resources.

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

The strategy of acceleration, developed by the 27th Congress of the CPSU, implies a deep qualitative renewal of the entire economic mechanism.

Introduction into production of more advanced machinery and equipment, characterized not only by higher technical, but also economic indicators, makes the problem of assessing the effectiveness of new technology.

The efficiency and reliability of the functioning of mining enterprises with open-pit mining method depends on a number of factors: mining and geological conditions, geographical location of enterprises, climatic conditions, annual productivity of the open pit, the structure of the applied schemes of extraction and transportation.

Efficiency assessment is made on the basis of mines of the Pechora coal basin, which is typical for the coal industry as a whole on the state of new construction and reconstruction of existing mines for 1959-1980 in the Pechora basin, reconstructed four mines.

The political report to the XXVII Congress of the CPSU indicated that the essence of the reconstruction of the national economy on the basis of scientific and technological progress consists primarily in changing the structural and investment policy.

As is known, in the enrichment of raw materials of unstable quality composition there are losses characterized by a decrease in the recovery of useful components, deterioration of the quality of concentrates, increased consumption of reagents, reduced productivity of equipment (hereinafter by the term losses we will mean losses from the processing of raw materials of unstable quality composition).

The problem of waste utilization is crucial for the development of waste-free production.

A characteristic feature of the process of development of mineral resources is a long duration of the production cycle, which is usually tens of years.

The system of self-financing relations, introduced in university science, requires new approaches to the evaluation and material encouragement of the results of research and development (R&D).

The creation of complex automated systems should not be regarded as a one-step commissioning of a fully developed to this point system.

The system of cadastres is a fundamentally new basis for planning the rational use of mineral wealth of the country and is aimed at improving the economic mechanism of management of the mineral and raw materials complex.

Mineral and raw materials complex (MRC) belongs to the class of large economic systems. Construction of models, statement of planning and management tasks for such systems are connected with overcoming of considerable complexities of theoretical and practical character.

The solution of a wide class of tasks of mineral resources management as a part of information system (IS) development makes non-trivial requirements to the organization of the mechanism of information output, which is further called the output generator (IG), due to the following reasons.

At the present stage of economic development due to the growing complexity of the economy, causing the complexity of the system of links between individual industries and between their constituent associations and enterprises, there is a problem of intersectoral complexing.

Geological and economic evaluation of mineral deposits is carried out each time at the end of the next stage of study of the object to be evaluated.

New methods of economic management presuppose the search for ways of the most complete satisfaction of the needs of society at the lowest cost.

For the effective operation of concentrators it is necessary that the ore fed for enrichment, had stable over time qualitative characteristics both in terms of the content of various components and particle size distribution.

Formation of intensification programs of different levels of management (enterprise, industry, administrative district, territory), implemented for the conditions of Leningrad and Leningrad region on the basis of methodological recommendations of the North-West branch of the Central Research Institute at the State Planning Committee of the RSFSR, presented a number of new requirements of organizational and methodological nature to planning and management of scientific and technological progress at enterprises and industries of the national economy.

In the conditions of scientific and technological progress there is a growing need for rational use and reproduction of natural resources, utilization of industrial waste and reducing the volume of harmful substances entering and polluting the environment.