Diego Monterrey

Living on the edge of a hole 240 meters deep and nearly half a kilometer in diameter is a dubious joy, but the residents of the South African town of Kimberley are quite happy. Their ”Big Hole” is the world’s oldest primary diamond deposit. From 1872 to 1914 it yielded three tons of the hardest and most expensive stone (14.5 million carats). Today there is a tourist business around the flooded excavation: tramways are laid, and a late 19th-century mining camp has been recreated.

On Friday, May 12, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on a pilot project to reform higher education. In particular, it provides for the abolition of the bachelor’s degree and the introduction of a basic level of higher education, the programs of which will last from four to six years

New blocking compounds (crosslinkers) required for efficient operation of Kovykta gas condensate field have already passed pilot tests. Their introduction into production will make it possible to avoid problems when drilling wells, which arise due to the uncontrolled flow of brine. Salty groundwater disrupts circulation of drilling fluids, which leads to their absorption into the formation. Elimination of complications takes a lot of time and leads to decrease of production profitability.

The public discussion about the reform of higher education, initiated by the rector of St. Petersburg Mining University, Vladimir Litvinenko, continues

The III International BELAZ-CHALLENGE-2023 Engineering Case Study Championship is over in Minsk

Italy’s Bologna is best known in the world for its waterproof cloth and the declaration of the same name with which European higher education entered the 21st century. In both cases, the initial excitement was replaced by disappointment.

”You, born in the heart of Asia, are considered an honor by all European academies to have as a member,” wrote a famous German geologist and traveler, professor at one of Germany’s largest universities, Gerhardt vom Rath, to Nikolai Koksharov, Director of the Mining Institute and the Imperial Mineralogical Society.

Back in the second half of the 19th century, most geographers believed that about 10,000 years ago the territory of modern Russia was a ”sea across which ice blocks were carried, leaving erratic boulders when they melted” (from a historical sketch by Vladimir Obruchev).

The ”Meeting of Cultures” international festival was held at the Gorny Multifunctional Complex. Its participants were 140 people from 29 universities of the Northern Capital, representing 13 countries.

On November 6, 1896, the oldest technical institute in Russia held a solemn meeting on the occasion of the centenary of the death of Catherine the Great. The Minister of Agriculture and State Property Alexei Ermolov read out the decree of Nicholas II, according to which the educational institution was to be named the ”Mining Institute of Empress Catherine II”.

The patent for melchior - an alloy of copper and nickel - was received by the French in 1827. The name was later given to it by the Germans. They caught the consonance in the pronunciation of the names of the inventors Mayo and Saurier with the name of the Evangelical sorcerer. It is customary to give primacy in obtaining ”cheap silver” to the Chinese. Historians have their ancient text about the court foundry master Li Lyan Ying who mistakenly fused the aforementioned components and was able to appreciate the result.

All five developments of scientists of the university were awarded gold medals and diplomas of the first degree at the contest held in the framework of the XXIX International Exhibition of Innovations ”HI-TECH”

Their goal shall be the development of academic mobility and the creation of joint research teams

About 400 high school students gathered on the site of the Mining University to present their papers on the development of the country’s mineral complex

The subjects of their joint research could be the study of the paleoclimate and the history of the geological development of the Earth, as well as environmental monitoring of the fragile Antarctic ecosystem.

Russian and European professors believe that the Bologna process has a negative impact on the training of engineers