Science and technics

PJSC LUKOIL has become the Gold Sponsor of the 6th Future Leaders Forum of the World Petroleum Council. The agreement establishing the terms of cooperation has been signed between the Company and the Russian National Committee of the World Petroleum Council.

Calcite is chemically speaking calcium carbonate. The mineral literally forms the skeleton of our planet. Mountain systems, the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, as well as such life forms as starfish, hedgehogs, snails or mollusks – they all are composed of calcite.

The journal of the Mining University, which is celebrating this year its 112th anniversary, has been accepted for inclusion in the Scopus database.

Rhodochrosite is a mineral that resembles a blossom of a rose due to its colour and texture coating. The multilayered mineral is undoubtedly as beautiful as malachite or charoite.

The oldest technical university in Russia was granted with a few patents for inventions aimed at increasing competitiveness of domestic engineering. One of the inventions is a method of magnetic-abrasive polishing.

Pyrite got its name due to its specific properties, such as being able to sparkle upon impact. In Greek the mineral’s name means ”a stone that strikes fire”. In fact, 200 years ago there was almost no other way to light the fire but to use pyrite or flint as the ”matches”. The stone is often mistaken for gold because of its color and glitter. Spanish conquistadors and gold diggers, who often lacked literacy, either mined or took away cube pyrites from the locals, believing that those were the precious stones. Thus, pyrite got another name - ”fool’s gold”.

Young researchers from the Mining University are the new holders of a prestigious Russian Federation Government Award in Engineering Science

A history of an origin of silver is quite interesting. There is a word ”argenta” in Sanskrit, which means ”light” in English translation, and scientists believe that this word gave the name to the similarly-named chemical element– argentum.

Gold is one of the first metals to become known to mankind. In the Ancient Egypt, it was considered a part of Ra, the sun God. For this reason, the precious metal was accessible only to the pharaohs, their family members and the priests.

Throughout the summer, the higher school of Russia was shaken by scandals related to existing assessments of the quality of education. For example, the leaders of the 50 largest Russian universities appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a proposal to abolish the current system of state accreditation as ”outdated”. The discussion escalated even further with a beginning of the school year. In fact some universities began planning the complete rejection of traditional lectures and their replacement with online courses. First meeting of the working group involved in development of a new system of state accreditation and licensing of higher education institutions took place on October 10. ”Forpost” asked the Principal of Saint-Petersburg Mining University to comment on this issue. Under the leadership of Vladimir Litvinenko, the University got as high as number 16 in the Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings.