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As is shown in the paper, Russia and its Far Eastern region (RFE) possess large amounts of mineral wealth, comparable to th at of China, USA, Australia, Canada and other major mineral producing countries. The same can be said with respect to the production of mineral commodities, including highly valuable ones. Unfortunately, country's and region's mineral potentials are insufficiently geologically explored and are not used to their full capacity. Presumably, the situation can be s ubstantially corrected in positi...

In the paper it is demonstrated that due to mineral resources specificity many mining industries do not strictly comply with clas sical liberal economic model and are faced with the necessity to combine mechanisms of both market and planned economic models. Besides, it is shown that various co mbinations of two leading economic models are present in countries throughout the World. With the help of a generalized structural model, both similarities a nd diversities are specified, which exist between mineral resource...