Specialists from main mining industry countries – Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, India, Japan, Kazakhstan, RSA, Russian, USA, Ukraine, Uzbekistan – will present papers by following themes:
- Design and Planning of Surface Mines
- Mining Equipment Selection Operations
- Efficient Reclamation, Mine Closure and Mining Waste Disposal Methods
- Drilling, Blasting and Excavation Operations
- Geomechanics, Rock Mass, Shift Management
- Information Technologies in Mine Engineering and Management
- Economic Research and Feasibility Studies
- Network Analysis Application in Surface Mine Operation Engineering
- Ecological Aspects of Surface Mining
- Mining Heath and Safety
Within the limits of an International conference “Surface mining in XXI century” simultaneous translation from Russian into English and from English into Russia will be performed simultaneously with a speaker, without pauses and delays. Experienced conference interpreters will provide high quality translation.
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
| Tuesday
4th October |
Wednesday
5th October |
Thursday6thOctober | Friday7th October |
| 10.00 – 11.00
Registration |
9.00 – 13.00
Section work |
Technical tour to Borodinsky surface mine
(Lunch incl.) |
Technical tour to Nazarovsky surface mine or to Olimpiadinsky ore-dressing and processing enterprise |
| 11.00 – 14.00
Plenary meeting |
13.00 – 14.00
Lunch |
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| 14.00 – 15.00
Lunch |
14.00 – 18.00
Section work |
Sightseeing tour around the city | Excursion to the national park Stolby |
| 19.00 – 21.00
Welcome |
18.00 – 20.00
Conference |
Conference program includes technical tours to Borodinsky and Nazarovsky surface mines on bus as well as tour to Olimpiadinsky ore-dressing and processing enterprise on helicopter. Excursions to Nazarovsky and Olimpiadinsky mines are additional events for payment.
ADDITIONAL EVENTS

Technical tour to Borodinsky surface mine
Borodinsky surface mine is a coalmining factory located in Krasnoyarsk region of the Russian Federation. It is part of rian SUEK coal energetic company. Borodinsky surface mine has been commissioned under the design of Lengiproshakht institute (now SPb-Giproshakht JSC). It is placed in operation in December 1949 with the production capacity of one million tones of coal per year. Borodinsky mine was under manystage since 1953 and its annual capacity has been risen up to 20 Mt coal.

Sightseeing tour around the city
Krasnoyarsk is the larges economic and cultural center of Siberia, an administrative center of Krasnoyarsk region (the second area subject of the Russian Federation). The City population is 964,7 thousand. Krasnoyarsk has received the status of the city in 1690. It is situated on both banks of Yenisey River appearing the bolder between West and East Siberia, and you have chance to visit both its parts.
ADDITIONAL EVENTS FOR PAYMENT

Technical tour to Nazarovsky surface mine
Nazarovsky open pit mine is also a part of SUEK. The building began in 1947 under the project of Leningrad project institute LenGiproshakht with the capacity of 4 million tonnes of the coal mining per a year. The putting into operation of the excavator ASH-100/100 in 1977 is a significant event in the open pit mine history. From 1977 to 1993 the volume of the moved mined was 127,652 mln.m3. The peak of a yearly output – 15090,6 thousand tonnes was reached in 1982.
The powerful excavation-loading machines are used at the open pit mine: the surface complex SRs (K)–4000 and the excavator ERs (K)–800 manufactured in Germany, the Ukrainian excavators R– 1250. Nowadays the full capacity of the enterprise makes 5 mln. tonnes per a year.

Technical tour to Olimpiadinsky ore-dressing and processing enterprise
Olympiadinsky ore-dressing and processing enterprise, opened in 1975, has been developed by Polyus Gold JSC since 1980. It is located in the North Yenisei area of the Yenisei edge. The bio-oxidation technology was introduced on Olimpiadinsky open pit mine for the first time in Russia in 2001. Implemented in July, 2007, the 3d line of the largest gold-processing factory in Russia having the rated capacity of 5 mln.tons of ore per a year due to Olympiadinsky open pit mine let raise the annual volume of sulfide oir processing till 9.5 mln.tons of ore per a year. 861oz.of gold were manufactured by the factory in 2007.
Sightseeing tour to the national park Stolby
Fantastic form rocks are located not far from Krasnoyarsk on the high bank of the Yenisey River/ It’s the huge national park Stolby (Pillars), which covers an area of 470 km2 (181 sq. mile) with numerous giant rocks formations up to 100 meters high









