There are both black and brown coal deposits found within the Khabarovsk Krai, with the commercial reserves of coal exceeding 1 billion tons, and estimated resources of coking coals equaling 4 billion tons. Brown coal is found in the spacious Mid-Amur Basin with estimated resources being about 7 billion tons.
Many of the mineral resources in the Khabarovsk Krai are still being discovered. The Adnikanskoye deposit of carbonaceous raw materials was exposed within the Verkhnebureinskaya depression. The Ayanskaya, Yuzhno-Kukhtuiskaya and Okhotskaya depressions as well as the Northem-Sakhalin flexure of the Okhotsk! seaside shell are perceived to hold mineral resources as well.
A preliminary estimate of the oil and gas resources in the Krai is around 500 million tons. The Khabarovsk Krai is one of the largest suppliers of staniferous raw materials, including 7 large tin ore bearing localities. Tin ore mining and dressing is done in the territory of the Komsomolski district. The Komsomolski ore district is a major location of com plex ores, containing an industrial concentration от tin, copper, silver, tungsten, bismuth and indium. Prospects of titanium-phosphorite complex ores were defined by prospecting and estimating works.
Alunite ores in the lower Priamurye can serve as raw materials for the aluminum industry. Alumina, as well as potassic fertilizers, sulfuric acid and coagulant are made of alunite ores. The ore reserves are practically unlimited. Beryllium is found in the Bureinski and the Ingiliyski massifs. Large reserves of zirconium have been revealed in the Ayano- Maiski District, and there are significant signs of phosphorites in the Udsko-Shantarski ore region as well, their total reserves being estimated at the level of 90 million tons of phosphorus pentoxide.
Large reserves of apatite ores are concentrated in the Dzhugdzhurski and the Baladekski massifs. Titanium, vanadium, iron and feldspar can be extracted as auxiliary products as well. Forecast reserves of complex ores in the region are approximately 100-130 billion tons.
Iron ores are concentrated in two districts: Dzhugdzhurski (resources are estimated as 6.6 billion tons) and Udsko-Selemdzinski (1.6 billion tons).
Manganese ores are common in the Udsko-Shantarski region. Forecast resources estimate 30 million tons.
Chromite ores are also found in the rocks of the Konderskoye Platinum Deposit. Gold is also quite common within the area of the Khabarovsk Krai. It is extracted, primarily by placers. Estimated reserves of vein gold in the Krai are 5-6 times the prospected reserves. Complex gold-silver, polymetallic and other ores contain silver. In addition to the resources mentioned above, there are zeolites, caolin raw materials, cement raw materials, basalts and others.
There are also large reserves of mineral and construction-based raw materials, as well as gemstones: agates, chalcedonies, some other stones for making handicrafts, and facing stones. Significant reserves of peat and sapropel are found in swamps and lakes, and a number of thermal and mineral water springs have been explored and are being utilized. The priority directions of the development of the Khabarovsk Krai's mineral and raw resources base are the survey and prospecting of the precious metal placers, deposits of tin, copper, coal, rare and rare-earth metals, and exploration of gas and oil fields in the continental shelf.
Raw material deposits and bowels of the earth are provided for the usage by way of competitions and international bids (tenders).