Economic assessment of mineral resources of the arctic zone of the region taking into account the environmental factor

The aim of the study was the economic assessment of promising mineral resources of the Arctic zone. The objectives of the work included the assessment and ranking of deposits and occurences of minerals in the Arctic regions of the republic according to the degree of investment attractiveness for the formation of programs for the development of the mineral resource base of the region, taking into account environmental restrictions. As a result of the study, an economic assessment of the mineral resource potential of the Arctic zone of the Komi Republic was carried out, a new methodological approach to assessing the mineral resource base of the region was proposed, which allows to identify promising types of raw materials with the possibility of involving them in industrial development.