The Ministry of Natural Resources of Russia has published at its web-site the list of deposits offered in 2005 to mining companies. Such a document was approved on June 10, 2005.

The list of deposits includes those containing gold, silver, diamonds, PGM, many of them are located in Amursk, Archangel, Irkutsk, Leningrad, Novgorod, Sakhalin, Magadan, Khabarovsk regions etc.