In the pursuit of his life's needs, man makes use of mineral resources. Each stage in the development of mankind is associated with new discoveries and inventions, which directly or indirectly rely on the earth's riches. And it is not surprising that historians make the initial stages of cultural development dependent on the ability to use them, as reflected in the division of pre-historic history into the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages. Depositional geology, also known as resource geology, is the basic branch of applied geology.