About State Commission of Ukraine on Mineral Resources
State Commission of Ukraine on Mineral Resources (SCMR) was founded in April 1992.
It conducts Sate Expert Appraisal of economic-geological evaluation of mineral resources, summarizes the practice of legislation use on the questions of its competence and develops proposals for its improvement.
The main tasks of State Commission of Ukraine on Mineral Resources are to set the conditions on mineral raw materials for further mineral reserves calculation and also to make decisions on the quantity, quality and degree of study of explored mineral deposits and state of their preparedness to commercial development.
Structure:
Administration for Ore & Combustible Mineral Resources
- Oil and Gas Department
Administration for Nonmetallic Minerals, Groundwater and Information Technologies in Geology
- Nonmetallic Minerals Department
- Department of Groundwater, Hydromineral Raw Materials and Therapeutic Muds
- Department of Information Technologies and Scientific and Technological Support of Economic-Geological Evaluation of mineral deposits
State Commission engages highly-qualified specialists in exploration, mining and mineral processing, ecology and economics of mineral raw materials in order to carry out state expert appraisal on a contractual basis.
The targets of state expert appraisal and mineral resources evaluation are:
- objective evaluation of mineral raw material base of the country on the grounds of common scientific and methodological criteria;
- ensure the accuracy of estimated mineral reserves and compliance of their quality indexes with planned usage;
- creation of conditions for the most complete, cost-efficient and integrated use of mineral resources in compliance with the requirements for subsoil and environmental protection;
- comparative evaluation of quantitative and qualitative indexes of mineral resources, their geographic, economic, mining-and-geological, hydrogeological and other conditions of occurrence to determine the actual industrial cost.
According to the targets, main tasks of state expert appraisal and mineral resources evaluation are:
- evaluation of the reliability of mineral resources and available components on the basis of research and analysis of geological study of the subsoil concerning the regularities of mineral resources formation and allocation, their material composition and technological properties, geological, hydrogeological and other conditions of occurrence;
- setting the conditions on mineral raw material for reserves calculation, taking into account rational use of total mineral resources and available mineral components;
- determination of the quantity and quality of mineral resources and components, the degree of their study and readiness to industrial development;
- evaluation of commercial value of mineral resources and components subject to their most complete, cost-efficient and complex extraction and use on the basis of modern industrial technologies.
As a scientific-methodological center, State Commission of Ukraine on Mineral Resources provides a unified scientific and technical policy for economic-geological evaluation, State Register and complete use of mineral resources. SCMR develops, approves and submits to the State Registration the legal documents, which regulate the performance of geological exploration activities for further examination of quality and quantity indexes of subsoil minerals, hydrogeological, engineering-geological conditions of occurrence and technological properties, as also it determines ways to establish conditions for mineral reserves calculation and to develop methods for mineral resources monitoring in Ukraine.