Geological Bases of Building up the Mineral Resource Base of the North Caucasus (Solid Minerals)
The article States that the number of well-known and repeatedly observed facts in various fields of Geology have already reached a “critical mass" and require qualitative changes in the method of forecasting and searching for deposits of various minerals. The facts from various fields of Geology, established in many regions on different continents, are given, from which it becomes obvious that carbon-containing layers and rocks (black and combustible shales, fossil coals, graphitized rocks, anthraxolites, shungites, hydrocarbon deposits, etc.) contain a huge, still not used forecast and search potential for many ore minerals. The author substantiates the great possibilities of realizing this potential in the North Caucasus, where a large geological information base has accumulated over several centuries. The possibility of opening different types of diamond deposits within the Greater Caucasus is also justified. The thesis form describes a new method of searching for small-sized, but rich in various metals and elements of ore bodies in the nodes of intersections of the ore-leading fault with other faults.