Abstract. In the current conditions of global competition, the development of new mining technologies, the requirements to labor resources, their skills and creative potential are increasing. The tasks facing the mining industry cannot be solved without highly qualified personnel, especially managers, engineers and technicians, specialists who possess the knowledge and competences necessary for the development of science and technology of mining, and ensuring mining industrial safety. The authors analyze personnel problems and financing of mining higher education, conclude that there is a need to develop social partnership and diversify the sources of funding for training, advanced training and retraining of personnel for mining and processing of solid mineral deposits.

The development of the Russian economy requires an increase in production factors, including energy, fuel and raw materials. Sustainable functioning of mining enterprises has an impact on the development of such industries as metallurgy, engineering, road construction and predetermines the development of the country’s economy as a whole. The article substantiates the need to form an investment risk management system in the mining industry to encourage expansion of environment-saving measures funding. The stages of investment risk management are proposed and their content is disclosed. The most significant types of investment risks and uncertainties in assessing geological exploration investment projects in the mining industry are considered. The recommendations for considering the factors of uncertainty and risk when evaluating the effectiveness of environmental and geological exploration investment projects to use maximum information about the conditions for the implementation of projects. For risk assessment, various qualitative and quantitative methods have been proposed, and the advantages of the Monte-Carlo simulation method are shown.

The authors studied financing issues in the development of human capital in mining industry. They analyzed the distribution of financial resources in the field under current conditions of the economic activity decrease at the enterprises in connection with the spread of coronavirus infection. An assessment of the demand for vacancies by profession, region and wage level was made. The issues of enterprise personnel management in the form of a set of interacting and interconnected HR-technologies that allow enterprises to manage the staff and work more efficiently are studied. The authors concluded that an important aspect of the quality personnel training and the development of modern companies is a properly built system of improving the quality of human capital, as well as, measures for ensuring safety and preserving health, improving the qualification level, creating conditions for creativity and labor potential growth.

The authors investigated the issues of assessing financial risks in the mining industry, studied the problems of hedging risks in conditions of high uncertainty when a company enters foreign markets. The importance of the SPIC document was determined as a form of interaction between enterprises and the state, which allows more actively investing in the mining industry, while reducing risks for investors. The article outlines the issues of digitalization that allow managing financial risks, based on biogeography in order to optimize the rules for mining, as well as a system of classification rules (CRI) for a qualitative and quantitative approach in predicting bankruptcy and analyzing credit risk.

Abstract. The analysis of using the production capacity and other economic indicators of mining enterprises is given and the structure of goals of a development strategy in mining industry is shown. An example of mining effective methods that do not cause environmental damage to the regions is described. The authors emphasize that the development of regions and their ecology are in close interdependence with the participation of extractive companies in economic and social infrastructure development, their costs for environmental protection. They substantiate the methodology for the growth rates analysis of mining companies' costs for environmental protection measures. It is carried out separately for each type of expenditure, average for the year and cumulative over a period of time to optimize the sources of financing for targeted development programs for mining regions and improve their ecology.