Vyda Elena Gasiūnienė Deputy director

LITHUANIAN MINERAL RESOURCES AND LITHUANIAN MINERAL RESOURCES AND THEIR USAGE: TODAY, FUTURE AND THEIR USAGE: TODAY, FUTURE AND

PROBLEMSPROBLEMS((16-20 September 2007, Tallinn16-20 September 2007, Tallinn))

Vyda Elena Gasiūnienė

Deputy director

LITHUANIAN MINERAL RESOURCES AND THEIR USAGE: TODAY, FUTURE AND PROBLEMS. 16-20 September 2007, TallinnLITHUANIAN MINERAL RESOURCES AND THEIR USAGE: TODAY, FUTURE AND PROBLEMS. 16-20 September 2007, Tallinn

Basic data

Area – 65,3 sq.km

Length of the Inland borders – 1747 km

with in: Latvia – 610 km Belarus – 724 km Poland – 110 km Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation – 303 km

Coastline – 99 km

From east to west – 373 km

From north to south – 267 km

Population density - ~56 per sq.km

Consumed amount of mineral resources

till 1900

1900–1950

1950–20003,0-6,0

1,5-3,0

1,5

Population, (mlrd).

Period, year


Increase of extraction is related with:


Technological progress and progress in science

Growing number of the population in the world

Efforts to maintain the standard of living

Extractive activity


Public concern

How to satisfy a demand for mineral resources?

How to mitigate or avoid the impact of extractive industry on the environment?

Mineral resources are depleting both in the country and in the world...

What will be with our descendants?

The framework, called sustainable development, has goals:


• Economic prosperity

• Environmental health

• Social equity for societies – equal opportunities for our generation and for our descendants

The sustainable management of mineral resources implies:

sound geological knowledge;

harmonization of national legislation concerning access to mineral extraction and globalization of the resource market, irrespective of world’s political and state arrangement;

proper implementation and strict enforcement of legislation;

preparation of regional sustainable development plans, development of strategies at regional and transnational levels;

providing educational awareness to the problems of living and working in environmentally sensitive areas (in our case peatlands are sensitive areas);

sharing the experience of mining industry (which operates under strict environmental requirements and BAT);

communicating with the local community (i.e. bridge from emotion to knowledge).



Pyramid of the world raw materials – amount of annual extraction(2000, thousand tons, gas – mln. cub. m)

(according to F.W.Velmer)

Pyramid of the world raw materials – value of annual extraction(2000, mln. €)

(according to F.W.Velmer)



MINERAL RESOURCES MAP OF LITHUANIA, Scale 1:200 000



661 deposits:Resources explored in detail

990 deposits:Resources explored in general

373 areas:Prognostic reserves

33%49%

18%

In total: 2024 deposits and areas are investigated

LITHUANIA’S MINERAL RESOURCES DEPOSITS AND AREAS, 2006LITHUANIA’S MINERAL RESOURCES DEPOSITS AND AREAS, 2006

367 deposits under

exploitation

with in:

227 gravel

58 sand

51 peat

12 oil

8 clay

4 dolomite

3 limestone

2 sapropel

1 chalky marl

1 opoka


Dolomite 4

Clay 8

Sapropel 2

Limestone 3

Chalky marl 1

Oil

12

Opoka 1

Peat

51

Gravel, sand

285

Number of enterprises

210 Number of deposits

under the use367155

334

7

4

2

3

1

1

* 15 enterprises use 15 deposits of mineral water

USE OF MINERAL RESOURCES, 2006USE OF MINERAL RESOURCES, 2006


Mineralinių išteklių apmokestinimo tarifai / Taxation rates of mineral resources (pagal LR mokesčio už valstybinius gamtos išteklius įstatymą) /

(according Law on State mineral resources taxes of Republic of Lithuania) Tyrimai buvo finansuoti / Investigations was financed iš valstybės biudžeto /

from state budget naudotojo /

customer‘s means

Ištekliai / Resources

Lt / m3 Euro / m3 Lt / m3 Euro / m3 Anhidritas / Anhydrite 1,52 0,44 1,34 0,39 Dolomitas / Dolomite 0,65 0,19 0,59 0,17 Durpės / Peat: mažaskaidės / low-decomposed 0,54 0,16 0,48 0,14 kitos / other 0,20 0,06 0,14 0,04 Gintaras / Amber * 34,9 10,11 34,8 10,08 Klintis / Limestone 1,73 0,50 1,60 0,46 Kreidos mergelis / Chalky marl 1,13 0,33 1,00 0,29 Molis / Clay: devono periodo / devonian period 0,98 0,28 0,92 0,27 triaso periodo / triasic period 0,65 0,19 0,54 0,16 kitas / other 0,39 0,11 0,33 0,10 Opoka / Opoka 0,90 0,26 0,80 0,23 Sapropelis / Sapropel 0,85 0,25 0,79 0,23 Smėlis moliui liesinti / Sand for ceramic products 0,33 0,10 0,27 0,09 Smėlis stiklui gaminti / Glas-making sand 2,00 0,58 1,70 0,49 Smėlis silikatiniams dirbiniams / Sand for silicate products 0,30 0,09 0,24 0,07 Kitas smėlis / Other sand 0,25 0,07 0,19 0,05 Žvyras / Gravel 0,30 0,09 0,24 0,07 * Euro per kg

Mokesčiai į biudžetą už valstybinių gamtos (žemės gelmių) Mokesčiai į biudžetą už valstybinių gamtos (žemės gelmių) išteklių sunaudojimą (mln. litų)išteklių sunaudojimą (mln. litų)

Naudingoji iškasena 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006

Nafta 22,2 11,2 43,7 82,5 88,6 58,1 43,8 30,8 35

Gėlas vanduo ~13 ~9,9 ~9,6 ~10,3 ~15,4 12,2 10,0 ~10,1 ~ 9

Kietosios naudingosios iškasenos +

mineralinis vanduo

~4,3 ~4,7 ~5,0 ~5,0 5,4 5,5 6,0 ~7,0 ~8

Iš visoIš viso 39,539,5 25,825,8 58,358,3 97,897,8 109,4109,4 75,775,7 59,859,8 47,947,9 5252


Extraction of solid mineral resources (without oil and peat)

Oil extractionPeat extraction36

0,7

494,

8

386,

5

260

259 49

1

349

380

19628

4

3221

2317

763

650

342

190 43

8

250 26

6

230,

6

293,

3

230,

6

184

179 31

3

219

262

125

179

179

17031

7

112

241

51162

7

218122

15

0

400

800

1200

1600

2000

2400

2800

3200

1975

1985

1990

1991

1992

1993

1994

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

metai

tūkst. t

Bendra durpių gavyba

iš jų šviesių

160,

6

212,

4

277

232

316,

5

470,

9

432,

7

382,

2

301,

8

181

216,

1

12 33 64 72 78,5

114,

5

0

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

3000

3500

4000

4500

5000

5500

1990

1991

1992

1993

1994

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006 metai

tūkst.t Išžvalgyti išgaunamieji naftosištekliai

Naftos gavyba

tūkst.kub.m / thsd.cub.m

11139100509194

26345

24326

15806

70396265

49933548

47896473 6451 5638

4645

62107847

0

5000

10000

15000

20000

25000

30000

1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006metaiyears


Amount of explored resources


Clay 342

2,6%

Oil 226

1,7%

Limestone8726,6%

Dolomite 1595

12,0%Peat 1932

14,5%

Gravel, sand 8330

62,6%

In total – 13297 thous.cub.m

Structure of extracted mineral resources (thous. cub.m), 2006

Structure of extracted mineral resources (thous. cub.m), 2006


In total – 13297 thous.cub.m (* thous.t)

Oil 226

1,9% Clay 342

2,9%

Limestone872

7,4%

Dolomite 1595

13,6%Peat 386*3,3%

Gravel, sand 8330

70,9%


Usually the depth of open pit mines and quarries are:– Gravel, sand, clay, peat, dolomite – 6-12 m– Limestone and opoka (gaize) – 15-20 m– Triassic clay – 50 m

The thickness of overburden rocks in all quarries range from 0,5 m up to 7-10 m

All these rocks (overbuden, useful mineral resources and tailings) are the rocks of our daily living environment, inert in chemical point of view

The groundwater level is lowered by means of self flowing or pumping up in several quarries only (peat, limestone, dolomite, opoka, rarely sand)

Usually overburden rocks and tailings are utilized for recultivation of excavated area (void)

All mineral commodities, with the exception of oil, are mined only in the open pit mines and quarries

In total – 22,2 thousand ha or 0,34In total – 22,2 thousand ha or 0,34%% of Lithuania’s territory of Lithuania’s territory

are assigned to enterprises for extraction;are assigned to enterprises for extraction;


In total – 13,6 thousand ha or 0,2 In total – 13,6 thousand ha or 0,2 %% of Lithuania’s territory of Lithuania’s territory are damaged by extractionare damaged by extraction


Peat production sites

in Lithuania, 2006


Peat resources in the counties

of Lithuania, 2006

Mineral resources (explored in detail and general) in the counties, 2006


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Vyda Elena Gasiūnienė Deputy director