Finally, a plan of the development of North-Ural district for the extraction and development of precious metals, raw materials and fuel is approved. The Ministry for Nature Management has begun to develop the strategic plan, which included investments from both the budget and the private capital.

The “Conquest” of the district must begin next year so that it would have gone to the required level by 2015. It is from 2010, when geologists will begin the exploration and receive the first 4 billion rubles of public money.

Priority-oriented directions of “Ural operations” are a search for deposits of iron, chromium, copper pyrites, uranium, gold. What is not surprising in the connection with the feverish pace of growth of prices for gold.

The main strong points are the Ob and Shchuchinsk iron zone, Ohtlyam-Yanyturinsk ore node, chromite ores – in the areas of Ray-Izsk and Voykar-Syninsk mines, copper and zinc – in the Volinsk and Northern-Sosyvinsk ore districts and Lekyn-Talbeysk ore node.

A characteristic feature of the upcoming exploration is a large-scale funding from extrabudgetary resources amounting according to the preliminary calculations 11.2 trillion rubles.