Анастасия Литвинова

Every year the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining IOM3 (Great Britain) holds a worldwide competition for young specialists in their specialization. In Russia, it partners with the International Competence Centre for Mining Engineering Education under the auspices of UNESCO. On October 1, Forpost found out information about of its results.

The first technical devices began to be used in mining back in the 14th century. By the middle of the 18th century, the industrial revolution led to the replacement of tools such as picks, shovels, wedges and hammers, with albeit primitive, but machines.

The predatory appearance of this stone seems to warn of the danger hidden inside it. However, more than one hundred people were destined to die before the secret of the mineral was revealed.

This mineral is most often associated with liquid, which has a sharp characteristic odor. It can be obtained from manure. However, this is no obstacle for making from it candies popular in Europe.

This stone is the official symbol of the American state of Colorado. However, its appearance is more like a flower than a mineral.

In the second half of the 19th century, art iron casting became the trademark of the Urals and gained wide recognition around the world. The real triumph of products of the Ural masters occurred at the world exhibition in Paris. Products of the famous Kaslin plant were presented in a chiseled pavilion of cast iron in the Byzantine style and received a “Grand Prix” gold medal, the top award of the time.

An energetic discussion is going on in Western mass media regarding the future fate of the Nord Stream 2 trans-Baltic pipeline, which was supposed to provide the EU with an additional 55 billion cubic meters of natural gas annually. The controversy accompanied the project from the very beginning and recently it flared up with a new vigor after the German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced the results of a toxicological examination, allegedly carried out in the Bundeswehr secret laboratories.

The Mining Museum in St. Petersburg is three years older than America, while Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, can be considered the Museum’s rightful mother. Now by its size, it is the world’s third-largest natural-scientific exposition gathered in a building designed by Russian architect Andrey Voronikhin.

St. Petersburg Mining University specialists carried out a comprehensive no-contact geophysical survey within the territory of Freilinsky Garden, as a result of which a massive metal object was found in the ground. There is every reason to believe that this is a bronze sculpture, which the museum-park lost during the Great Patriotic War.

The first exhibition of the painting ”Moonlit Night on the Dnieper” took place 140 years ago. As is known, when creating the picture, the artist used special paints based on pigments from the collection of the oldest technical university in Russia.

Based on it, a new type of battery surpassing modern lithium-ion batteries both in terms of lifespan and efficiency will be delivered.

The Hall contains systematic collections of igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks from both Russia and other parts of the world. The exposition is based on the principle of genetic and chemical classification of rocks.

The exposition of the Hall is dedicated to St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region and is conventionally divided into two parts.

The Hall is home to samples of the most significant metallic, non-metallic and hydrocarbon fields both in Russia and abroad, and models of the Berezovsky gold deposit and the Ridder-Sokolny polymetallic deposit.

The expositions of the Hall are devoted to the internal structure of Earth and methods of its study, endogenous geological processes occurring in the depths, and exogenous ones which form the surface relief.

The exposition presents samples that refer to the era of the formation of planet Earth and the entire solar system from primary matter.