The main tasks of the state in the sphere of reproduction of the mineral resource base of solid minerals
The search for solid minerals is carried out in Russia in insufficient volumes, both due to the lack of suitable sites, and due to the investment unattractiveness of the prospecting works. The strategy for the development of the mineral resource base in Russia should be based on the new geological ideas, new search methods and complexes of methods, new technologies and technical means, which requires priority funding of geoscience and education. Relatively quickly, suitable sites for the prospecting works in Russia can be found by means the geological reassessment of perspective regions with the associated digitization of information about solid minerals. In the long term, the discovery of new deposits in Russia will be possible only if the unacceptable administrative barriers will be eliminated, the necessary financial institutions will be formed, and the subsoil use rights will be reliably protected.