Duma adopted in the second reading the bill, which specifies the criteria for inclusion and diamond deposits of platinum group metals to portions federal subsoil.
When assigning subsoil plots containing primary deposits of diamonds and platinum group metals, to the federal subsoil plots are invited to take into account the reserves of these minerals, recorded state balance reserves since January 1, 2006, rather than their appearance.
Lose status subsoil federal regions containing placer and manmade diamond deposits and platinum group metals as well as existence of uranium, diamonds, especially pure quartz raw material, rare earth elements yttrium group, nickel, cobalt, tantalum, niobium, beryllium, lithium, platinum group. Within 90 days from the day the law came into force, they should be excluded from the list of areas of federal significance.
First Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Russian Federation Denis Khramov previously explained that the bill will increase the geological study of the territory of Russia to ensure the reproduction of the mineral resource base and contribute to the solution of socio-economic issues in the Far East.
Now to the federal subsoil plots are areas where mineral resources are not registered, but there is only the prospect of detection. This is seriously delaying the procedure for the provision of such sites in use for geological study, as required for each license of the Government's disposal.
Alluvial deposits diamond and platinum characterized usually small reserves, partially spent in the past. In this regard, they are generally not of interest to large investors, but it is very interesting for the artisanal and small-scale miners. If such sites will lose the status of federal significance, their license will be activated, noted Temples.
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