‘Miner’s Week’ International Scientific Symposium
Key themes of the symposium:
- Underground and open-pit geotechnology
- Mining geology and mine surveying
- Engineering geophysics, geomechanics, and geodynamics
- Robotic technologies and mechanization for mining enterprises
- Safety in mining operations
- Mineral processing and advanced refining
- Construction of underground structures and mining facilities
- Environmental protection in industrial regions
- Energy and improved energy efficiency at industrial enterprises
- Digitalization in the mining sector
- Coal chemistry
- Blasting operations
- Management and economics at mining enterprises
Key speakers and guests at the event included: Metalloinvest Mining Division Director Rinat Ismagilov; Nordgold Director Georgy Smirnov; Zyfra Group CEO Mikhail Aronson; Director of the Mining Supervision Department at the Federal Service for Environmental, Technological, and Nuclear Supervision Vadim Tkachenko; Deputy Department Director within the Presidential Executive Office for Scientific and Educational Policy Andrey Kartavy; National University of Science and Technology MISIS Rector Alevtina Chernikova; and National University of Science and Technology MISIS Vice-Rector for Education Andrey Voronin.
The event featured over 300 presentations, 11 sessions, four roundtables, four meetings, and one council session. Following a meeting of the Technical Geomechanics Council, the Union of Mining Geomechanics Professionals was established.