TSU students received a bronze medal and an invitation from ALROSA

A team of TSU GGF students successfully competed in the finals of the VII International Championship for Solving Engineering Fuel and Energy Cases, Case-in, held in Moscow. The final was preceded by qualifying stages at 55 leading universities in Russia and three CIS countries. As a test, teams of geological students were asked to develop a diamond deposit. The results of the participants' work were evaluated by a jury, which included managers and specialists from leading industry companies such as Rosgeologiya, ALROSA, Micromine and others.

– The task of the case was compiled according to the data provided by the diamond mining company ALROSA," says the student of the TSU GGF, the captain of the Kvant team Victor Kozykin. – The object of the case was the Zarnitsa kimberlite pipe located in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The teams had to analyze the distribution of diamonds through the tube, build a block model of the deposit, calculate its reserves and develop a project for geological exploration. We had to make good use of the capabilities of GGIS technologies and adjust the cost structure for the development of the field.

11 teams that reached the finals of the Geological Exploration League worked on solving the case. The TSU team included students of the GGF Viktor Kozykin, Anastasia Petlina, Ekaterina Osipova and Andrey Eremin. The team was supervised by TSU graduate student Elvira Kungulova and TSU Faculty member Alexei Semiryakov.

At the preparatory stage of the case study, the students studied a large amount of data from information sources, independent expert reports and reports from ALROSA. In the process of solving the problem, future geologists used their skills in using mining and geological information systems, correctly used additional exploration data, and gave an objective assessment of financial costs and likely profits.

All this helped the Kvant team to successfully complete the task and enter the top three teams of the international championship. The jury of the competition noted the good knowledge and great potential of the Kvant team of the TSU GGF. Moreover, ALROSA has invited GGF students to a paid internship.

–It was interesting to try yourself as a curator," says Elvira Kungulova, a graduate student at TSU who has experience speaking at a Case–in. – The guys have a young perspective on seemingly familiar things, they look at the problem from a different angle, ask new interesting questions. It should be noted that our students were one of the few who represented a classical university rather than a technical one. Their successful performance confirms that the good fundamental training provided by TSU allows them to compete on equal terms with representatives of the best technical universities, and in some ways even surpass them.

Source: MIA MIR