Инструкция по применению Классификации запасов и ресурсов полезных ископаемых государственного фонда недр к геолого-экономическому изучению ресурсов перспективных участков и запасов месторождений нефти и газа.

Спасибо заранее за внимание!

(IMHO!) Instructions for applying the Classification of Mineral Reserves and Resources of the State-Owned Subsoil to evaluation/feasibility studies of the oil and gas resources of the promising areas and reserves of the (discovered) fields.

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Мои варианты: Mineral License, Mineral Use License или уж тогда Subsurface Use License.

"Subsoil Law" и "Subsoil License" звучат коряво и не по-английски и применяются только в текстах о российской добывающей промышленности с подачи наших же переводчиков.

Позволю себе привести довольно длинный отрывок с рассуждением переводчика-носителя на эту тему. К сожалению я не помню его имени - обсуждение было в списке рассылки Lantra несколько лет назад.

Закон о недрах
"...a little Kansas primer on the subject notes that "[b]ecause most minerals are found below the land surface, it is convenient to refer to mineral rights as subsurface rights to distinguish them from surface rights, such as land ownership and the right to use the surface for agricultural purposes, urban development, etc. Mineral rights are also sometimes referred to as the mineral estate, and surface rights as the surface estate." In other words, "mineral" includes anything that's down there, whether it's dirt, granite, sand, oil, sludge, ore, or whatever -- not just quartz and rhyloite and feldspar and whatnot."
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"I usually get this complaint over "mineral" from native Russian speakers, who are often loath to translate недра, полезные ископаемые, and минералы ALL as "minerals." They think we're overlooking significant distinctions (we're not), and they typically look for ways to force them into the English. This is the only reason I included those confounded terms in my background info (pun intended).

The real issue here -- and I realize I didn't really bring it out in my initial query -- is whether we are dealing with a significant enough difference in meaning (as in the case of Corp. vs. GmbH vs. SA...) that we need to invent a foreign term in English to make sure the monolinguals don't equate them, or whether we are dealing with an effort by the farners to preserve their farn wording in English and thereby do violence to our language.

For the same reasons, I would like to translate "Закон о недрах" as "the Law on Minerals" (or, given complete freedom, ;-) "the Mineral Act"), whereas the Russians want to call it "the Law on the Subsurface." And every once in a long while some wise guy wants to call it the "Law on Bowels."
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Более того, я читаю, что в русском языке имеется много "слов-понятий", которые вообще не переводятся. "Недра" - одно из них. Т.е. перевести-то можно, но получается не то...