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Mining in the Soviet Arctic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

Terence Armstrong
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The major economic benefit which the U.S.S.R. derives from its Arctic territory comes from the exploitation of mineral resources. Detailed information about production has long been withheld, at least in the case of important minerals, but enough general information is available to permit a summary in broad terms of current activity in this field. Murmanskaya Oblast' is not included in the summary, because its relatively mild climate, near absence of permafrost, and favourable location render it atypical of the Soviet Arctic as a whole.

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Polar Record , Volume 10 , Issue 64 , January 1960 , pp. 16 - 22
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1960

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