ESTIMATION OF THE FEASIBILITY OF INCLUDING THE MALKINSKY IRON ORE DEPOSIT IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE ECONOMIC FRAME

An adaptive economic framework is being designed within the framework of an ecological-economic zone with specified properties in the mountains of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic (KBR), designed by the authors. Among the tasks in this direction is the search and assessment of functionally unencumbered natural conditions and resources of the region. Among the reserves not involved in economic activity, an important place is occupied by the Malkinskoe deposit of naturally alloyed iron ores. The purpose of the study is to probe the relevance of the issue for management structures and business, a preliminary assessment of the possibility of embedding the considered field in the constructed economic framework of the republic. In accordance with the designated goal, the following tasks have been set: - study of archival materials from Giprozem on the iron ore deposit for the purpose of realizing its technical and economic potential in relation to the conditions of modern market realities; - conducting field geophysical studies to test the author's hypothesis about a larger area of distribution of the serpentinite massif; - clarification of the mineralogical form of nickel in the ore and the identification of regularities in the distribution of alloying impurities in the open part of the ore strata; - assessment of the current intensity of contact of exposed ore layers with mountain streams.