The economic evaluation of deposits in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) touches on the serious problems arising for mining from adaptation to the market economy in all the post-communist countries. It is thus desirable to conduct an exchange of experience with our East European colleagues geared to overcoming these difficulties. It was with this task in mind that the ideas arose [1] which are to be presented here tailored to the present purpose. What is meant by the economic principle, inkeeping with tradition, is the attempt to achieve the maximum possible ratio of receipts to outlays, respectively, of revenues (from sale of production) to costs, the numerator and denominator being given in monetary units. This is in accordance with the business economic goal of profit maximization.
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