This article describes the aim, major tasks and gained scientific and applied results during the implementation of the State Research Programme Project “Mineral Resources”. The main goal of this project is to promote sustainable exploitation of Latvian mineral resources – finding new raw materials with certain properties suitable for new processing technologies to reach innovative materials and products. Therefore, in cooperation with the University of Latvia and Riga Technical University, six interconnected research directions (subprojects) with high potential of application in the national economy were developed: 1. Evaluation of Latvian clay suitability for the development of new products and technologies (lead by V. Seglins); 2. Development of technologies for high disperse systems based on Latvian clays for new innovative applications to sorption processes, environmental technologies, medicine and cosmetics (lead by L. Berzina - Cimdina); 3. New ceramic products and technologies (lead by G. Sedmale); 4. Technologies for energy-efficient highly porous ceramics from Latvian clays (lead by V. Svinka); 5. Peat and sapropel as high value raw material for new technologies and products with a high-added value (lead by M. Klavins); 6. New biotechnological products and technologies on the base of porous ceramics (lead by O.Muter). The development of these research directions allows achieving high scientific results in each individual research group, research field and demonstrates high synergy in the studies of clay and peat. Significant results are now available regarding quartz sand, dolostone and limestone. The paper in short describes particular research results and encompasses the fields of studies in the future. Project success, in general, is characterized by a number of patents, new materials and products, supplemented by monographs and scientific papers, doctoral theses, etc. These results are available for Project social partners in industry, research and education and will support development of the national economy.