Maksymova O. An economic substantiation of resource potential maintenance of mining the enterprises.

The dissertation gives specific understanding of the economic category "resource potential" of an enterprise and studies conditions of resource use at Ukraine's mining enterprises. The paper provides the economic mechanism of complex estimation of efficient use of mining enterprises' resources considering economic risks associated with compliance of their structure with production processes. It also gives the procedure for estimating mining enterprises' resource potential at every production division considering characteristic features of the divisions and conditions of resource use. The dissertation develops the technique for optimizing the resource structure of a mining enterprise according to its production program, offers methods of estimating an enterprise's current and investment costs of its resource reproduction and improves the procedure of estimating investment projects on the basis of forecasting results of their implementation and optimizing sources of finance. The performed calculations prove reliability and efficiency of the methodological principles proposed in the paper.