RE: EEF, one to watch6 Sep 2022 13:21
The process of resource licensing has also been digitized, both for tenders and obtaining licenses under the so-called declarative principle, he said.
"It is no longer necessary to come to the Federal Subsurface Resources Agency with kilograms of documents. You just have to register on the special site and apply through your personal account. Almost 2,000 applications have already been submitted this way in nine months. And if you take all licensing procedures, resource users have submitted about 5,000 electronic applications," Kozlov said.
"And we have been working on another two objectives since last year. A unified bill on them has been submitted to the government. This is the introduction of 'circulation' of licenses and private companies' access to the regional stage of exploration. Businesses are prepared to invest money in this," Kozlov said.
"Although federal financing for geological exploration increased by several billion rubles this year, this is insufficient. We believe that the financing that the government invests in the regional stage is about 4.5 billion rubles and companies are prepared to invest another 5 billion rubles, so work will double. The number of prospective sites could jump to 100 annually," Kozlov said.
It was reported earlier that the updated list of key strategic mineral resources includes oil, natural gas, helium, uranium, manganese, chromium, titanium, bauxite, copper, lead, antimony, tin, zinc, nickel, molybdenum, tungsten, cobalt, rare elements (lithium, rubidium, cesium, beryllium, scandium, etc.) and rare-earth elements (yttrium, lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium and lutetium), gold, silver, platinum group metals (ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, osmium, iridium and platinum), diamonds, graphite, phosphate, potassium salts, spar, pure quartz and groundwater.
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