Mining Museum News

On Wednesday, 17 March, Mining Museum, St. Petersburg, informed it had concluded experiments on removing toxic impurities from wastewater. The experiments were carried out using mineral samples from the museum’s vaults, reports the press office of the city’s largest natural-scientific exposition.  The peculiarity of the solution lies in the filtering material capable of trapping even the most toxic components. Iron-manganese nodules were used as a barrier for wastewater treatment.

”In the depths of Siberian ores Keep proud patience”, wrote Alexander Pushkin. This message was brought by Alexandra, Nikita Muravyov’s wife, in February 1827 all the way from St. Petersburg to Nerchinsk. Here Muravyov’s brothers, Nikita and Alexei, Ivan Annenkov, and Konstantin Torson were imprisoned in the forced-labour camp.

Circa 200-year-old rare exhibits have been restored in St. Petersburg.

One hundred and seventy-three years ago, in 1848, Nikifor Syutkin, a worker at the state-owned Miass gold mines, was, just as usually he did, digging for gold. Suddenly he heard a tinkling sound from underneath his pickaxe. When he shook the dirt off the find, he barely managed to elevate a 36-kilogram gold nugget up the wooden ladder.

St. Petersburg Mining Museum has expanded its collection of rare artifacts.

Drafts drawings from the Mining Museum’s storage facilities will help restore the historic appearance of the Polevskoy Copper Smelting Plant.

This November, the Mining Museum, St. Petersburg, informed of having for the first time ever determined the detailed chemical composition of 19th-century steel blades. The two-century-old swords were either brought from Tiflis or manufactured at the worldwide known Zlatoust Plant.

The Exposition Universelle of 1900 or, as it is better known in English, 1900 Paris Exposition came to its end on 12 November 1900. Exhibits from Russia - including the Mining Museum’s collection of minerals, to which was awarded a grand prize - took over 1,500 prizes.

A malachite block weighing a ton and a half was extracted from below the surface 245 years ago in the vicinity of the area where nowadays the town of Polevskoye, Ural, stands.

When examining the Mining Museum’s collections, the academic staff members discovered a carved vase of grey spotted stone. The research was carried out, and based on its results, the object was found to be an example of the rarest lapidary works, dating back to the 18th century.