V etoy rabote, kratko, otrazheny kharakteristiki vsekh osnovnykh mestorozhdeniya poleznykh iskopaemykh Altayskogo kraya i Respubliki Altay. Rassmotreno ikh geologicheskoe stroenie, privedeny dannye o zapasakh i resursakh syr'ya. Rekomenduyutsya sposoby ikh otrabotki. Privodyatsya dannye o ikh prinadlezhnosti i o segodnyashnem sostoyanii. Dayetsya ekonomicheskaya otsenka, rassmatrivayutsya sovremennye tekhnologii kompleksnoy pererabotki rud s tsel'yu polnogo izvlecheniya poleznykh komponentov. Etu monografiyu rekomenduetsya ispol'zovat', kak posobie k kursam geologii. Ona budet polezna i interesna investoram, predprinimatelyam, prepodavatelyam, studentam i uchashchimsya starshikh klassov, tak zhe shirokomu krugu chitateley.