At present, deposits and manifestations of coal, manganese, radioactive elements, impact diamonds, barite, fluorite, stone raw materials and other types of minerals have been established on the Ugra Peninsula, for the assessment of which exploration and exploration work is necessary. In modern conditions, the most real objects of industrial development may be deposits and manifestations of coal, manganese, barite and fluorite.
Along with the Ugra Peninsula (Pai-Khoi), the Vaigach and Novaya Zemlya Islands, the second promising region for identifying deposits of ore and non-metallic minerals is North Timan, which has not been sufficiently studied, but now has significant reserves and resources of gemstone raw materials (Timan agates). Requires an in-depth assessment of the probable potential of diamond bearing and gold bearing (by analogy with Middle Timan in the territory of the Komi Republic).
2.1 Coal
The Pechora coal basin covers an area of about 90 thousand square kilometers and is located on the territory of the Komi Republic and the Nenets Autonomous District of the Arkhangelsk Region. A significant part of it is located beyond the Polar Urals.
In 2003, V.P. Kuklev (Komigeolfond) reassessed the coal resource base in the Pechora basin, including the territory of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug.
The total geological resources of coal in the Komi Republic amounted to 128.071 million tons, in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug - 139.679 million tons. Of the total geological resources of the coal in the basin, 52% is located on the territory of the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, of which 122 billion tons are estimated as conditional.
Explored reserves are almost all located in the Komi Republic (97%).
2.2 Non-Metallic Minerals
Barite
The planned prospects for increasing oil and gas production in areas adjacent to the north of the Urals provide for the ever-growing demand for drilling barite concentrate. The resources of the Khoylinskoye field currently being developed as applied to the new more northern areas of hydrocarbon resources development can be supplemented by the Paykhoy baritone province, where the Ems and Serpukhov stratigraphic levels of baritic accumulation are established.
Fluorspar (fluorite).
In the northeast of the European part of the country, in the Nenets Autonomous Area, a large and very promising Ural-Novaya Zemlya Late Hercynian fluorite province has been established, covering the area of development of the Pre-Paleozoic and Paleozoic sediments. The South Paykhoy and Amderma fluorite-bearing zones stand out.
The South Paykhoy fluoriferous zone is elongated by a narrow strip along the southwestern wing of the Paykhoy anticlinorium for almost 250 km. It combines a number of fluorite manifestations in carbonate and siliceous-carbonate deposits, mainly of the Visean age. Among them, the most promising is the Buredan ore occurrence with monomineral fluorite and lead-zinc-fluorite ores.
The Boredan ore occurrence is located in the southeastern part of Pai-Khoya (the territory of the Nenets Autonomous Area), in the river basin. Silova Yah. The area is not economically developed
The manifestation is polymetallic fluorite. The main mineral is fluorite, and the accompanying ones are galena and sphalerite.
P1 forecast resources were estimated at the ore occurrence, which amount to 144950 tons. In the course of more detailed work, it is possible to identify additional ore bodies, and new ore occurrences within Pai - Khoya.
The Amderma fluorite-bearing zone is located at the northwestern end of Pai-Khoya and can be traced 25 km from the northwest to the southeast. It includes the Amderma fluorite deposit itself and numerous manifestations of the southern flank, isolated in several ridge highlands.
Thus, the South Paykhoy and Amderma fluoriferous zones possess high quality fluorite resources and reserves, which, after their industrial assessment, can become the raw material base of many industries of the Urals and the European part of Russia.
