CURRENT STATE OF PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION OF BARITE RAW MATERIALS IN RUSSIA

Abstract

The relevance of the work is caused by the presence of periodic import dependence of Russia on barite raw materials. Objective: study of the dynamics of commodity flows (production, import, export, consumption) of barite raw materials in Russia and on a global scale, its prices (world and Russian), the raw material base of barite in Russia and the prospects for its national production. Methods: statistical, graphical, logical. Results. Based on the analysis of the available information, it is concluded that barite mineral raw materials in Russia are a critical commodity product due to the limited production at a single field and the presence of significant volumes of barite imports at the border of the import dependence threshold. On the one hand, the small size of the Russian import barite commodity flow is easily ensured, on the other hand, it is not able to influence the prices and volumes of trade export-import flows of barite raw materials. The following measures are proposed to regulate the barite mining industry: the resumption of mining operations at the Khoylinsky group of barite deposits (Khoylinsky, Malokhoylinsky and Palnikskoe) in the Komi Republic and at the technogenic Urskoe field in the Kemerovo region; the organization of evaluation and exploration work at the Kuten-Buluksky, Mokhovsky, Karasugsky-II and Yubileyny fields to the north of the decommissioned Tolcheinsky field in the Republic of Khakassia; priority searches for new deposits of barite raw materials should be organized near the existing transport infrastructure in the Alchano-Bikinskaya and Muravyevo-Amur baritone-bearing areas in the Primorsky Territory, on Anyuyskaya and Nizhne-Amurskaya areas in the Khabarovsk Territory, on Sakmarskaya Square in the Republic of Bashkortostan. It is proposed to maintain a stable import commodity flow of barite from permanent partners in the Republic of Kazakhstan in the economic conditions of the Customs Union countries, as well as to consider the possibility of forming new import flows of barite raw materials from India and Laos.

Keywords

• barite raw materials
• import dependence
• critical commodity product
• mineral resource base
• projects