Six Kolyma students made it to the finals of the international engineering CASE-IN championship

33 students from 9 Northeastern State University University teams defended their decisions in two leagues – Mining and Exploration. The participants fought for victory and the opportunity to represent the Magadan region at the championship finals in Moscow.

The presented cases were evaluated by an expert commission, which included scientists, specialists from the leading largest enterprises operating in the field of geological exploration and gold mining in the region, as well as representatives of industry ministries. According to Oleg Kosolapov, Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Magadan Region, the Championship popularizes engineering and technical education and allows attracting the most promising young specialists to the fuel and energy and mineral resource complexes of the region.

«The Magadan region has now adopted a direction in the development of geological exploration and mining. Last week, our promising project to develop the junior movement in the region and create a junior campaign was positively received by the Government of the country and approved by Yuri Trutnev, and this year we will develop this area. And these competitions show that the opinions of science and the regional government regarding the need to develop the mineral resource base of Kolyma converge." He said Oleg Kosolapov. 

It took 10 days to complete the case assignment. Mining students were asked to evaluate a placer diamond deposit: to justify the choice of a development system and the procedure for mining reserves, to select and provide a cost structure and an economic assessment of the complex of proposed measures, to describe solutions (technical, organizational measures) applicable to improve the energy efficiency of the main technological process.

Geological students received an offer to further explore the indigenous diamond deposit, the kimberlite pipe. It was necessary to develop a project for geological exploration, calculate diamond reserves, estimate the amount of investments needed to implement the proposed project, propose possible applications of digital technologies and assess the impact of the proposed solution on the energy efficiency of the main technological process.

In the course of a hard-fought but fair competition, the finalists were determined. In May in Moscow, Northeastern State University will be represented in the League of Mining by: - the Reload team (R.Bekmuratov, A. Novikov, D. Potapov), in the Exploration league by the Prival team (A. Lobenko, E. Sadym, E. Serebryakov)..

The championship went for the sixth time, the competitions are organized Reliable Shift Foundation, A non-profit partnership between the Youth Forum of Mining Leaders and AstraLogica LLC using a grant from the President of the Russian Federation for the development of civil society provided by the Presidential Grants Foundation. In 2019, 5,000 students from 56 Russian and foreign universities are taking part in the competition.

Source: GOVERNMENT OF THE MAGADAN REGION