The conception of developing unallocated fund of subsoil raw material resources base in the coal mining industry

Coal mining industry raw material bases analysis of allocated, newly introduced and unsold subsoil reserve fund demonstrates a fast depletion of the reserves with favorable geological factors of mining which meet the requirements of traditional mining technologies. In the coming years meeting the demand on certain technological coal ranks (K, KZh, KC, KCN, KO, OC, TC, CC) cannot be provided without exploiting coal deposit sites that contain hard to recover reserves and without developing and implementing new mining technologies oriented on complex mining and geological conditions. It requires a special program for fulfilling scientific researches on the development of methodological approaches, technical and technological solutions and testing new technologies for hard to recover coal reserves which can provide rational subsurface resources utilization and protection.