The teams "Watch" and "Second place" will represent UGSU in the final of the "CASE-IN"

Following the results of the qualifying stage of the international Case-In engineering championship at UGSU, the teams "Watch" (mining league) and "Second Place" (exploration league) reached the finals. The national teams presented their solutions in a remote format.

The organizers of the championship are Reliable Change Foundation, Non-profit Partnership Youth Forum of Mining Leaders and AstraLogica LLC. The NGO "Russia – the Land of Opportunities" provides special support to the event.

For the "Watch" team, which includes Anatoly Kulminsky, Danil Istomin, Maxim Klyuev (Department of Mining at UGSU) and Tatiana Prosekova (Department of Environmental Management and Water Management of UGSU), this victory was already the second. Ural students went to Moscow for the final stage of the competition last year.

According to the conditions of the case of the qualifying competitions in the mining league, the participants had to develop a set of measures aimed at reducing the contamination of the atmospheric environment of the deep Yubileyny quarry. And although open-pit mining is not a core area of training for representatives of Vakhta, the students were able to offer the most effective solution to the problem: ventilate the quarry with the help of underground mining workings and fans installed on the surface in front of the trunk mouth. According to experts, the main value of the solution announced by the miners lies in the fact that it can be implemented in practice.

"Of course, the fact that we could not always get together to prepare a presentation due to the self-isolation regime added difficulties, but in general it did not affect the workflow., – said the captain of the team Maxim Klyuev. – And then, the houses and native walls help: it was easier to perform than from the stage."

The "Second Place" team, which won the exploration league, by its own admission, did not have enough official presentation in front of a large hall.: live communication eliminates the possibility of technical interference. The students of the Department of Geology, Prospecting and Exploration of Mineral Deposits at UGSU have a lot of experience. Maxim Khudyakova, Roman Ustinov, Evgeny Rogovsky and Alexandra Ilyina many years of experience performing at the regional stage of the Case-In championship. This year, geologists presented the most logically sound set of measures to improve the efficiency of diamond mining operations within the Markhinsky-2 site (Alakite-Markhinsky kimberlite field).

"We have managed to offer the most cost-effective solution with an adequate cost of work and the use of new and effective methods", – said the captain of the team Alexander Ilyin.

A total of 14 UGSU teams took part in the qualifying stage. The expert commission, which included representatives of Russia's leading industrial enterprises, noted the high level of training of miners.

In the fall of 2020, the national teams of the Mining University and finalists from other universities in Russia and the CIS countries will meet in the finals of the CASE-IN championship in Moscow. Prizewinners and winners of the Student League of the competition will receive valuable prizes from the organizers and partner enterprises of the championship, internships and internships in leading industry companies, participation in summer meetings and forums, as well as the opportunity to enroll on preferential terms in master's and postgraduate studies at universities that support the competition.

A source: UGGU