pecific Aspects in Assessing Economic Feasibility of Rare Earth Mining
https://doi.org/10.25205/2542-0429-2020-20-4-138-152
Abstract
An important up-to-date feature of the resources sector development is a rapid change of types and raw material sources as well as a wide range of conditions in which the processes of mineral resources development take place. The sources of rare earth elements are not an exception because the innovative nature of their development implies the use of new knowledge, technologies and approaches. Moreover, from an economic perspective, like any investment projects, such sources of raw materials require feasibility assessment and their investment effectiveness. Based on the above, the article analyzes an economic assessment of the development of new source of rare
earth elements by the example of the Burann area of the Tomtor deposit in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
Supporting agencies: nding The paper is funded by the Russian Science Foundation (RSF) within the framework of the scientific project no. 19-18-00170 “Transformation of the development processes of the Russian resource sector in the conditions of the formation of the knowledge economy”
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V. Yatsenko
Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering SB RAS
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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