ON THE ISSUE OF IMPORT INDEPENDENCE ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE PRODUCTION OF ARTICULATED DUMP TRUCKS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOLID MINERAL DEPOSITS

Abstract

Now, the mining and metallurgical industry of the Russia remains export-oriented. The paper shows that one of the strategic directions of the integrated development of mining, metallurgical and machine-building production in modern conditions is the search for ways of restructuring and modernization for the purposes of import substitution and of implementation of fundamentally new domestic technology and equipment. There is a significant potential for reestablishing and development of cooperative relations between the enterprises of mechanical engineering and the mining and metallurgical complex for the supply of mining, metallurgical, rolling-mill, forging-press, transporting, energetic and machine equipment, as well as spare parts for them.

Because of the research, we established that one of the ways to ensure the technological sovereignty of mining is to accelerate the production of four-wheel drive dump trucks with articulated frame, including of ones in unmanned design, on the territory of Russia and to use them during the extraction of solid minerals using open-pit method.

Several examples given here illustrate that the development of open-pit mining should base on scientific and technical potential using innovative technology and modern resource- and energy-saving technologies. To do this, it is necessary to allocate the producing assets with the state support to take measures for mandatory financing of pre-project research, R&D, technological regulations and software for the development, selection and justification of advanced technologies based on the use of domestic equipment. At the state level, it is necessary to develop a program to replace imported (Western- and American-made) mining equipment with domestic equipment in the short, medium and long term, taking into account the opportunities and prospects for the development of the machine-building industry.