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Students of the TSU Faculty of Geology and Geography know where the gold lies
25 Mar 2017
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Undergraduates of the Faculty of Geology and Geography of TSU successfully passed the qualifying stage of the V International Engineering Case-in Championship. A 3D model of a gold ore and antimony deposit built by geological students for industrialists led a group of TSU students to the finals of a prestigious competition.

"We competed in the Geological Exploration league,– says Elvira Kungulova, captain of the TSU MetM Mente et Malleo team. mind and hammer). – Ten days before the start of the qualifying round, all participants were given a case to solve. We were provided with the initial data on the gold-antimony deposit, which is located in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. The task of the teams was to calculate all the stages of field development: from exploration and resource assessment to protection before the State Commission on mineral reserves.

In the course of solving the case, the GGF students did all the work that geologists do for an industrial partner, including calculating the economic feasibility of the project. The team has built a 3D model of the deposit, which contains all the data necessary for efficient extraction of raw materials: the direction of formation, concentration and distribution of metal in the ore, the presence of beneficial and harmful impurities, etc. The project of the undergraduates was highly appreciated by the jury, which included representatives of government authorities, leading companies, universities and industry research and educational centers.

The successful debut of TSU students is evidence that classical university students can solve diverse tasks in any field, including engineering. After all, the guys know many things not only from textbooks, but also have mastered them perfectly in practice.

For example, in the summer of 2016, team captain Elvira Kungulova, along with employees of the MIP TSU Geo-Universal, searched for gold deposits in Northern Buryatia. During the same period, another member of the team, Alexey Semiryakov, completed an internship at Kazzinc, the largest international metallurgical holding, where he conducted area geochemical testing to detect natural anomalies of copper, lead and zinc in soils.

– At TSU, the training of geologists is not limited to a narrow specialization, – says Oleg Grinev, associate professor of the GGF, expert of the regional stage of the Case-in. – Students gain fundamental knowledge and develop practical skills during their internship. Thanks to this, we receive a versatile specialist at the exit, who is able to perform high–quality projects in various industries - in the preparation of geological maps, the search and exploration of solid mineral deposits, in the oil and gas sector, and much more. I think our guys will perform well in the championship finals, which will be held on May 30-31 in Moscow.

Let's add that many large companies, such as PJSC Tatneft, JSC Rosgeologiya, PJSC Mechel and others, use the championship platform to select future promising specialists.

In 2017, more than 3,000 students from 47 universities participated in the Case-in. The qualifying stages were held in 35 regions of Russia and the CIS countries. The organizers of the championship are the Reliable Change Charitable Foundation and the Youth Forum of Mining Leaders non-profit partnership. The national partners of the event include the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation and other authorities, companies and universities.

A source: http://tomsk.monavista.ru/news/2801546/ 

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