Kseniia Pavlova

China imposed a ban on coal exports from Australia late last year. Canada, the US, Russia, and Indonesia expressed their interest to replace its market share. Yet, it was Mongolia that became the leader of the race. The vice president of one of the country’s largest mining companies, MAK, spoke on where the profits from coal sales would go to.

Mahmoud Vaezi, head of the Iranian presidential administration, announced that Washington had agreed to lift sanctions on all economic issues. The head of the Iranian-Russian Center for Academic Cooperation, one of Iran’s largest universities, commented on what the first steps would be after they had been lifted.

People in Russia are generally irritated at seeing fuel prices rising. There is a reason: we have a plethora of hydrocarbons, and we have learnt how to extract them on an industrial scale back in the Soviet times.

The new technology makes it possible to produce graphene at room temperature.

An environmental campaign took place in St. Petersburg, during which citizens could hand in their old toothbrushes and used toothpaste tubes for recycling. Is it as environmentally beneficial as is believed?

Melting alumina using low-temperature plasma ensures the high quality of the final product.

A delegation of Caterpillar headed by Regional Director for Eurasia and the Middle East Markus Gebauer paid a working visit to Mining University.

A delegation of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) headed by Secretary-General Yuri Senturin visited St. Petersburg Mining University.

Mining vacancies available for May 2021

A concert dedicated to the Victory in the Great Patriotic War was held in the Gorny IFC.

A regular meeting of the Academic Council was held at Mining University.

They speak about the need to preserve the historical truth about the crimes of the Nazis committed during the Great Patriotic War.

The corresponding licence was issued by the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation.

It has been decades since museums, along with books and theatre, were foretold to cease to exist. COVID-19 has indeed contributed to the debate regarding the ”things of the past”.

British scientists have revealed that breathing causes lead compounds to form within disposable face masks. It reminds of Vladimir Mayakovsky’s lines, ”as our days entered the water pipe, worked by the slaves of Rome”. Which is a typical example of how lead pipes bring about a decline in the population’s average life expectancy.

Kazan scientists have come up with a simple and cost-efficient technology for producing a high-quality road-building material from heavy oil.