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adequately backed by reserves for the period until 2035 - oil, gas condensate, gold, silver, diamonds, lead, zinc, antimony, and high-purity quartz raw materials. According to the strategy, the most important task for this group is to identify large deposits, including non-traditional ones, which requires the use of fundamentally new methods for their forecasting, exploration, and evaluation.
The third group includes import-dependent scarce minerals, with their domestic consumption largely met by imports - uranium, chromium, titanium, bauxite, molybdenum, tungsten, lithium, beryllium, zirconium, niobium, tantalum, rare earth metals, rhenium, graphite, fluorspar, and other scarce minerals. At the same time, Russia has discovered significant reserves of almost all types of scarce minerals, the strategy noted.
9.1.12 Transport sector news
● Trains
Passenger traffic on Russian Railways’ network increased by 5.7% to 111.8mn people in June 2024, the company reported via its Telegram channel. In June, 99.4mn passengers made trips using suburban routes, which is 5.8% higher than last year, and 12.5mn passengers traveled on long-distance routes (+5.5%), the holding said. Year-to-date passenger traffic on Russian Railways’ network added 6.6% y/y to 608.4mn people, with the number of passengers making trips using suburban routes reaching 549.6mn people (+6.8%), while the number of passengers travelling on long-distance routes amounting to 58.8mn people (+8.4%).
● Ships
Belarus uses fourteen Russian ports for exports — spokesperson Belarus and Russia signed an agreement on modernization of infrastructural segments in the direction of northwestern ports of Russia in 2023, Irina Kaplevskaya reminded
9.1.13 Other sector news
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