Diego Monterrey

Is it possible to find a balance between field exploitation and environmental protection?

Its keynote was the idea that humanity must unite to minimise the impact of technology on nature.

Another climate summit was held in Egypt, at the end of which many participants expressed their disappointment with the destructive position of the ”rich countries.” Why?

Prediction of the end of the world according to the Mayan calendar in December 2012 is considered a mistake of interpreters or a clever Indian joke. However, it is from this time point physicists find, for example, the change in the constant characteristics of the proton. It is easy to write off the inexplicable phenomenon to imperfect measurement technology, but one wants mystery. Especially since an amazing coincidence opened up - it was in the final year of the Mayan calendar that the world finally unraveled the secret of the unclouded azure of their religious artifacts.

In September 1819, the St. Petersburg Mineralogical Society received as a gift from the literary genius and universalist scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe a part of his personal collection of minerals. Two batches, of 105 and 153 pieces, i.e., individual pieces of geological bodies, have been recorded as having been received. Among them are amethyst, rock crystal, chalcedony, augite, various kinds of granite, quartz rock, feldspars, and mica.

This week, Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel’s visit to Russia included the unveiling of a monument to Fidel Castro in Moscow and talks between the top leaders of the two countries. Young scholar Yusmira Savon Vassiano said that Cubans in St. Petersburg watched the news with a feeling comparable to the one both countries had 60 years ago, when that very song ”Cuba is near!” was born.

The Rector of St. Petersburg Mining University, Vladimir Litvinenko, took part in the International Forum on Energy Prospects, which was held in Ecuador

On Thursday, November 24, a delegation from Acron (Veliky Novgorod) paid a working visit to St. Petersburg Mining University. The guests made a presentation of the holding company and talked about innovative solutions enabling a full cycle of fertilizer development and sales as well as career prospects for students in case of their future employment at the Group’s enterprises.

In all closed university sports complexes, the total area of which is almost 11 thousand square meters, 880 people can train in parallel

It was established to support the most talented and promising scientists who are engaged in research as part of the preparation of a doctoral dissertation.

St. Petersburg Mining University launches a new project ”Day of Science”.

The Greek word άσβεστος [ásvestos] translates as ”unquenchable.” In this case, the main useful property of asbestos, a mineral of the silicate class, is its incombustibility. The exact explanation of the paradox is probably hidden in the asbestos papyruses of the priests of ancient Egypt, which have not yet been found, but there is a hint to the solution.

The main author of the theory of the abiogenous origin of oil, Nikolai Kudryaevtsev, spent decades fighting the ”geological elite,” proving that oil comes from non-biological sources of carbon and hydrogen deep in the Earth’s crust and mantle. He received years in camps for his work, but the concept became popular worldwide and eventually changed the established view of the future of mankind.

One of Gogol’s most bitter and brilliant jokes is in the name and patronymic of the classic ”little man,” the protagonist of his story The Overcoat. Akakia, as we know, was called by the Byzantines as the attribute of the ceremonial royal vestment - a silk roll of ashes. It was supposed to remind the first persons of the Orthodox Empire and other participants of the ceremonies of the perishable nature of the earthly blessings, the fatality of fate and the transience of life.

Specialists from St Petersburg Mining University have started building a model of the first well at the Sablino training and research site, where domestic oil and gas equipment is to be tested

This autumn people continued to die in mines and mines around the world. Some of the tragedies were caused by non-compliance with safety rules, while others were caused by rockbursts. Forpost decided to find out whether scientists can predict and prevent such cataclysms.