The balance of prospective minerals resources of Poland is a monographic elaboration, in which Polish Geological Institute – National Research Institute, fulfilling the tasks of the state geological survey, presents the complex information on potential mineral raw materials resources base of the country.
The ongoing updating of the prospective resources is necessary due to the constant progress of the geological structure of Poland studies. It is also crucial for assurance of the domestic raw materials security and for planning the economic raw materials strategy of the country. The knowledge on prospective resources allows to rationally manage the country’s space, protect the areas of deposits occurrence and plan the further geological-exploring activities. To ensure the domestic raw materials security, there have to be done some important activities: the ongoing and systematic information collection on the resources base at the every stage of their recognition and exploring. Minerals resources, pointed even at the lowest degree of data credibility regarding their volumes, should be verified and valorize.
The actual edition of The balance of prospective minerals resources of Poland („Bilans perspektywicznych zasobów kopalin Polski” – issued inly in Polish) contains data as of 31.12.2018 and was prepared by the multi-person team of authors as a task financed by the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management. It is the next edition of the publication, prepared after nearly 10 years since the previous edition. It’s layout and content is modeled on the previous edition The balance of prospective minerals resources of Poland, issued in 2011, and contains some fragments which have not lost their relevance. However, the current edition has the new graphic design and new – broadened – chapters layout and content: it includes supplemented information on minerals described in the previous editions, but also information on minerals included into the Balance for the first time (i.e. marine/submarine minerals, minerals of jewellery industry, elements sources form water, halloysite) and completely new information (exploration of the geological structure of Poland).
The balance of prospective minerals resources of Poland (file size: 43 MB) – Bilans perspektywicznych zasobów kopalin Polski 2020 (issued only in Polish).