Abstract (eng):
It is obvious that at such rates of use of mineral resources, the main share of explored reserves of minerals will be exhausted from the subsoil within the next 30 years. Of course, a partial solution to the mineral-raw material problem can be achieved thanks to scientific and technical achievements, the implementation of which will allow reducing the volume of raw material consumption or replacing certain types of it with less scarce ones. However, the main way of meeting the needs for raw materials remains the development of existing deposits and the search for new ones. Therefore, an important task of our and other countries is to develop methods that make it possible to obtain the most reliable information about deposits in order to make the most effective decisions for their development.