BORODINSKIYE COAL TECHNOLOGY PARK SECTION UPDATES THE

Borodinskiye COAL TECHNOLOGY PARK SECTION updates the

Tractor is based on the tractor 150K. Unlike his predecessors, he has a combined speed rail, railway automatic coupling, locomotive brake. MCT-1 can be on a combined rail-mounted handle the weight of the compositions to eight tons in horizontal way, take curves radius of 80-125 meters, so you can use it instead of shunting locomotives industrial transport in areas with an average flow of goods.

Compared with the old base new tractors equipped with a more powerful engine, improved chassis. Here, improved lighting for night work in the cabin more comfortable conditions for the driver, assistant and operations manager. Performance MCT-1 higher than the base truck.

This technique will be involved throughout the year.

`For winter work has attachments - says Alexander Pischur driver, who will be working on a new tractor - this is a special wedge for snow removal. In summer, use a different mounted unit for distillation and rehtovki railway line - this innovation on old tractors, this was not `.

Now on the new machine is being assembled, inspection and lubrication of all working parts. After break-in, paperwork, staging equipment registered in the Federal Service, tractor will go to work.

Total number of such vehicles on a mountain track section will be two. The second wheel-rail truck will go on this year.

DELRAND AND RIO TINTO DIAMONDS IN SEARCH OF THE NORTH DRC

DELRAND AND RIO TINTO DIAMONDS IN SEARCH OF THE NORTH DRC

Delrand Resources Company and its joint venture partner - Rio Tinto - have identified 10 sites for further additional studies after the program during sampling in the northern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) received 48 diamonds.
The report says the mining company that detailed sampling program was initiated in July on projects Koeksko (Coexco) and Bomili (Bomili).
`The program aims to increase the number of kimberlite indicator minerals, it is necessary to evaluate their chemical composition, to determine the extent of the prospects of each of the selected blocks for further exploration and the sequence of their in-depth study of the geophysical`, - said in a statement Delrand.
`It is assumed that the implementation of the program of sampling will take 3-4 months, at the end of the program will receive a little more than 200 samples. However, the objectives of exploration will be examined in accordance with the priority to further help the lab Rio Tinto identify the most promising areas `.
According to the company, the next steps in the development of projects and Koeksko Bomili will depend on the results of this stage of sampling - perhaps it will be held after the geophysical survey and drilling.
The northern part of the DRC has an extensive history of production of high-quality alluvial diamonds. However, to date the country has not found the original source of these diamonds and kimberlites. Earlier Delrand and Rio Tinto diamond fields were searched at major sites in the equatorial and eastern provinces of the DRC.

ILLEGAL MINING AMBER WILL IMPRISONMENT

ILLEGAL MINING AMBER WILL IMPRISONMENT

Kaliningrad regional Duma deputies to the State Duma introduced a bill that introduces prison sentences for those involved in illegal mining of amber. The maximum period that may threaten violators - 6 years.

- Illegal extraction of amber in the Kaliningrad region received fairly widespread - MPs described the reason for introducing the bill.

Currently, all cases of illegal mining resorted to in Article 171 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation `` Illegal business. At the same time, to use Article 255 of the Criminal Code `Violation of rules of protection and use of mineral resources#39; in this situation is illogical.

According to ITAR-TASS, as a punishment, penalties will be used (for example, the illegal extraction and recovery of income will have to pay from 100 thousand to 300 thousand rubles) and a sentence of imprisonment (from several months to several years).

6 years imprisonment threatens to crimes committed by a group of people, those who are used to extract mechanical tehsredstva, as well as those extracted from mining income in a large scale - more than 150 thousand rubles.

GEOLOGICALLY MUSEUM OF NATURAL RESOURCES MAGADAN REGION MARKS 64 YEARS

Geologically MUSEUM OF NATURAL RESOURCES Magadan region MARKS 64 YEARS

During 1939-1940. the first exhibits of the museum#39;s collection are some beautiful specimens of minerals, ores and rocks. Later research funds are replenished treated collections of different types of ore and host rocks typical of the mineral deposits of the Far East.

Department became the first department of minerals. In 1957 he formed a paleontological and stratigraphic section, and in 1973godu - petrographic department of the museum.

Initially, the museum was given two small rooms Geological management of the trust `` Dalstroy. In 1983 the museum was given to 200 sq.m. in the new building complex thematic expedition, where he is to this day. Now store the geological museum has more than 10,000 artifacts. Foundation stone material collected for virtually the entire period of the Geological Survey in the North-East.

Ore samples collected from all fields of Kalmykia and Chukotka.

Beautiful and diverse collection of gems. The pride of the museum - #39;Golden Room#39;, which exhibits collected from the very beginning of the Kolyma River. This is a sample of gold: nuggets of unusual shape, large crystalline aggregates of gold is quite rare.

The biggest nuggets are now part of the Diamond Fund in Moscow.

In the #39;Golden Room#39; is stored reference collection of placer gold in Central Kolyma and the Far East. There is a museum and historical artifacts - photos, documents, reflecting the history of the geological development of the Kolyma River, the personal belongings of the famous geologists.

Geological Museum - this attraction Magadan and unchanging part of the program dating Kolyma guests with its riches.

MARS ROVER CURIOSITY USING LASER CHEMICAL `` CHEMCAM CAMERA FOR DETERMINING THE COMPOSITION OF MINERALS

Mars rover CURIOSITY USING LASER CHEMICAL `` CHEMCAM CAMERA FOR DETERMINING THE COMPOSITION OF MINERALS

Curiosity rover first used laser `chemical #39;camera ChemCam, which it will use to determine the composition of the minerals - the first unit to become a rock the size of a fist, called Coronation (` crowning `), RIA Novosti` `with reference to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory ( JPL) of NASA.

The largest and most complex in the history of the rover - the rover Curiosity - the morning of August 6 made a successful landing in a Martian crater Gale after an eight-month journey from Earth, now for a month it will gradually warm up the muscles `` - to check on-board equipment and scientific instruments, preparing to start their research mission.

Tool ChemCam - one of ten scientific instruments Curiosity, a special camera with a spectrometer to determine the chemical composition of the rock, evaporated by the laser beam. A few days after landing the rover scientists have begun to calibrate ChemCam, and on Friday, the developer, the National Laboratory Los Alamos (LANL), Vince Roger (Roger Wiens) reported that the team selected the first target for the laser.

As noted in the JPL, ShemCam in 10 seconds #39;shot#39; on the stone 30. Initially it was assumed that the experiment will be for the rover#39;s `only` pristrelivaniem necessary to verify the accuracy of the instrument. However, the quality of the data collected has been so high that scientists will also be able to assess whether the spectrometer readings varied with each successive laser pulse - this may be an indication of `layering #39;chosen stone.

As previously reported, after the completion of the testing phase of scientific instruments and systems for Mars rover Curiosity will go for his first goal - `` intersection 500 meters away from him, received the name-palindrome Glenelg (Glenelg). If all goes according to plan, the rover will get there in about 1.5 months.

The project `Mars Science Laboratory` (Mars Science Laboratory), whose total cost was $ 2.5 billion, was launched in 2004. Its main link - the rover Curiosity - the representative of the third generation of Mars rovers. It is far superior in its capabilities #39;ancestors#39;: almost toy Sojourner and a few more `solid` Spirit and Opportunity.

By the size of the new rover is comparable to a small car, its weight is 899 kilograms (Spirit and Opportunity weighed 170 kilograms). On board Curiosity are ten scientific instruments a total weight of 75 pounds, which will allow the rover to carry out detailed geological and geochemical studies, to study the atmosphere and climate of the planet, look for water and traces of the organic matter and determine - whether Mars was once suitable for life, and is there a place suitable for life now. RIA Novosti ``

INDIA WILL COMPETE WITH CHINA FOR RARE MINERALS

India will compete with China for rare minerals

China accounts for about 95% of the global production of rare earth minerals, which are used in various electronic devices, ranging from batteries for mobile phones to flat-screen televisions.

But since 2010, the United States and other major consumers of rare earth minerals began to complain that China is unfairly restricted the export of minerals, raising export taxes and reducing the quota that has pushed prices up sharply, writes The Wall Street Journal.

Export quotas for rare earth minerals have been reduced by 40%. In 2012, restrictions on the export permit to send abroad no more than 10,546 tons of rare earth resources. Beijing has explained his decision by saying that he wanted to make the biggest companies to create their production to China in exchange for access to minerals.

In March, representatives of the United States, Japan and the European Union complained about China to the WTO. So they tried to force the owner reserves of rare earth minerals to lift restrictions on exports in order to reduce the deficit of raw materials for Western high-tech companies. This opposition has left India the opportunity to increase production in order to increase the market share of minerals.

Indian state-owned Indian Rare Earths, which in 2004 suspended the production of rare earth minerals because of their inability to compete with China in terms of price, is now building a plant in the eastern state of Orissa. The plant should start operating in September.

In addition, the Government of India has two ships that will explore for minerals in the seabed off the southern coast of the country. At the bottom of the ocean is a lot of deposits of rare earth minerals, but they have never been hunted commercially. Indian scientists have already identified an area of 2500 square kilometers, on which will be concentrated study.

However, some experts believe that India plans are unlikely to be fulfilled in the near future. In its new factory in India is planning to produce 11,000 tons of minerals per year. Even if successful, India still remains far behind China, which, according to the U.S.

Geological Survey, in 2010, produced 130,000 tons of minerals.

India may also face difficulties in attracting investment in the plant, and said the U.S. investment strategist of Casey Research Louis James. According to him, investors can scare corruption and red tape in the mining sector. Now the government of India is in talks with Japan over the investment in the construction of the plant in Orissa, but so far no agreement has been reached.

Implementation of the strategy in India is caused not only by economic considerations, but also geopolitical rivalry with China. The two countries fought a border war in 1962, in which Beijing was the winner, and since then, relations between the two countries remain tense.

In July, the Minister of Indian Industry Ashwani Kumar said that China announced its territorial claims in the ocean just in the place where it was planned to begin deep-water production. He believes that India should do the same.

It should be noted that previously the main producer of rare minerals were the United States. But China, using low-cost technologies for extracting minerals in mines, stopped the development of other manufacturers. Since U.S. became 100% dependent on imports rare earth minerals.

According to U.S. Geological Survey estimates, China has about 55 million tons of rare earth reserves, accounting for half of the world#39;s deposits.

Miners from the U.S., Malaysia and Australia is also planning new projects to offset the decline in Chinese exports, which in 2010 fell by 60% compared to the previous year. Reserves of rare minerals in the U.S. is 13 million tons, but production is idle. In the past year, one of the American companies resumed production at the mine in Mountain Pass, which until the 1980s was one of the most important in the world.

Australian company Lynas, which is developing a mine in Western Australia, is about to sell rare earth minerals from the mine at a price of $ 56 per kilogram. The cost of rare earth minerals in China is $ 33 per kilogram.

DTEK FIRST PUBLISHED ON COAL MARKETS AFRICA AND SOUTH AMERICA

DTEK FIRST PUBLISHED ON COAL MARKETS AFRICA AND SOUTH AMERICA

`` DTEK Trading contracted deliveries of coal for steel plants in Brazil, owned by the largest steel company in the region - Gerdau. Before the end of this year `` DTEK Trading will ship 50,000 tons of anthracite coal of the ports of the South American continent. At the moment, with Brazilian partners discussed the terms of cooperation in 2013.

DTEK previously supplied anthracite coal group for businesses in Brazil: Usiminas, Value, ArcelorMittal; new contract will expand the company#39;s presence in the South American country.

Also in August of this year `` DTEK Trading began actively to conquer the markets of Africa. The company provides delivery of low volatile coal grades to the cement plant, owned by Ethiopian Petroleum Enterprise (Federal Republic of Ethiopia). Further plans include an increase in deliveries and new contracts with customers African continent.

`DTEK is the first Ukrainian company which entered the coal markets in Africa and South America, where there is considerable demand for quality anthracite. Export potential of the African market is not less than 300 thousand tons of coal, the annual needs of South America to import anthracite coal grades exceed 1.2 million tons. We note the interest in cooperation on the part of the direct consumers of these continents and conduct intensive negotiations with all interested parties.

Further consolidation in the markets in Africa and South America will DTEK go global energy trading and take their rightful place among the world#39;s producers and suppliers of high quality anthracite. The long-term strategy for the development of DTEK includes expanding its presence in key global energy markets, contracts with Brazilian and Ethiopian partners confirm the systematic implementation of these plans#39; - the director of commercial operations DTEK Andrew Tabor.

Gerdau is the leading manufacturer of long steel in the Americas and one of the largest suppliers of special steel in the world. The company employs more than 450 thousand employees in 14 countries, the total installed capacity of steel more than 25 million tons a year.

Ethiopian Petroleum Enterprise - one of the leaders of Africa for the production of petroleum products, cement, providing energy consumers in the region.

AT MINE `` IN THE COKE-OVEN KUZBASS BROKE METHANE

AT MINE `` In the coke-oven KUZBASS broke METHANE

This 29-year-old sinker, a 46-year-old mine foreman, a 37-year-old deputy head of the site, which is now in serious condition in intensive care. Preliminarily determined that medical attention also turned 4 more mine workers with symptoms of poisoning.

Only at the time of the flash methane gas in the mine was 86 people. Back raised 56 miners were underground others to keep working the mine.

Investigative agencies of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Kemerovo region opened a criminal case on the grounds of an offense under Part 1 of Art. 216 of the Criminal Code (violation of safety rules during mining operations, entailed by negligence the infliction of serious harm to human health or serious injury).

At present, investigations are carried out, to establish all the circumstances of the incident. The criminal investigation is ongoing.

ILLEGAL EARNER MINERAL PUNISHED IN PRIMORYE

ILLEGAL earner MINERAL punished in Primorye

At the initiative of the Prosecutor perpetrators of unauthorized occupation of land and the implementation of the quarrying and production of common mineral resources in the absence of a license, punished administratively. This IA `Data` said Senior Assistant Attorney Primorye Irina VOLODINA.

Dalnerechensky Interdistrict Prosecutor#39;s Office conducted the audit found that legal persons Company `Quarry Service Company` and `Story` Alliance administration Dalnerechensk municipal area in accordance with the law lands in the district were not provided. However, the officials of these entities in the absence of legal documents illegally occupied land, they spend quarrying and extraction of loose sediment (grus) and sand and gravel. Moreover, this activity was carried out in the absence of a license for subsoil Office of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of Primorsky Krai issued.

Given the company `Quarry Service Company` and `Story` Alliance land occupied in the absence of legal grounds, Dalnerechensky Interdistrict Prosecutor#39;s Office against officials - deputy managers Company `Quarry Service Company` and `Story` Alliance filed an administrative case, under art. 7.1 Administrative Code - unauthorized occupation of the land. Upon review of the administrative affairs of the department of Dalnerechensky Dalnerechensky urban district and municipal district of the Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography of the perpetrators were brought to administrative responsibility in the form of a fine of two thousand rubles. each.

In addition, the Prosecutor#39;s Office against deputy heads of Company `Quarry Service Company` and `Story` Alliance filed an administrative case under part 1 of article. 7.3 Administrative Code - without the use of subsoil licenses for subsoil use, the results of the consideration of which the Office of the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources (RPN) of the Primorsky 10.09.2012 each offender assigned to an administrative penalty of a fine of 30 thousand rubles.

VYSTAVKAPRODAZHA МИНЕРАЛЫОКАМЕНЕЛОСТИМЕТЕОРИТЫ ``

EXHIBITION AND SALE OF MINERALS, FOSSILS `meteorites`

From 20 to 23 September 2012 in Moscow, held for the third time `` Mineral Expo - Exhibition and sale of `Minerals, Fossils, Meteorites#39;. With the arrival of autumn sun Moscow billboard revived, awakened from feeding sharks and catching butterflies, and invited the public more intellectual activities. The season `show` stone.

September 20 in the building trade fair `` Tishinka an exhibition and sale of mineral Expo `` - `Minerals, Fossils, Meteorites#39;, which will last four days. The exhibition is held under the #39;Jewelry#39; opening day, allowing mineralogical and paleontological specimens, meteorites, semi-precious stone-material in various stages of processing - `` natural stone, and precious stones in jewelry frame quite harmoniously complement each other in the neighboring areas. In the concept of `Mineral Expo` laid a wide range of rare and sometimes unique pieces for collectors, interior design, landscape and jewelry:
mineralogical samples - various mineral species, samples of different levels and classes (from widespread across the planet to unique endemic species, known only to a single field);

paleontological specimens - fossils under the age of 2.5 billion years (and it#39;s not an exaggeration);

meteorites - iron, iron-stone, stone, including the Moon and Mars, as well as closely related with meteorites and tektites impactites;

stone products (including meteorites) - saw cut, polish, balls, eggs, pyramids, boxes, figurines - stone carving.

Among other things, the exhibition and sale will feature more than a thousand minvidov for connoisseurs of systematics, cabochons and faceted inserts for jewelery, as well as a wide variety of crystals, Druze, geodes, tumbling and pebbles for all lovers of the stone. Also available for inspection and purchase will be a scientific and popular scientific literature on the subject of the exhibition-fair, children#39;s sets of young geologists and paleontologists. It should be noted that `Mineral Expo` you can not only buy your dream `rock #39;and admire the beauty of the represented, but also to get professional advice on the subject matter.

One of the objectives of Mineral Expo `` - expansion of the circle of people interested in the history of the Earth and the universe, minerals, paleontology and Meteoritika. The exhibition and sale can become the owner of a rare mineral, or simply beautiful, you can get answers to the questions that troubled childhood, you can find gifts for children and adults who already have `all`. You can take pictures with unique exhibits to interest the child in natural sciences, find a wizard that will produce facet of your order.

Mineral Expo organizer `` Company `mineralogical and paleontological collections #39;invites you to celebrate the beginning of autumn and winter show season 2012/13, with the interesting, informative, colorful, entertaining and beautiful exhibits of sale` Minerals, Fossils, Meteorites#39;.

WHAT IS THE SITUATION IN THE DONBASS

What is the situation in the Donbass?

In the Donetsk region today produces not only coal - the land of Donbass rich in other minerals, which are not related to fuel and energy commodities. Among them - the refractory and refractory clay, fluxing limestone, gypsum, anhydrite, kaolin and so on. At the same time production of these minerals mined in an open way - there are no underground mines, the outer career. But it would be misleading to assume that such developments do not harm the ecology of the region.

Today, they are no less dangerous to the land, rather than direct pollution from industrial and domestic waste.

GENERATION DONBASU

After making process is running (it does not matter what it is this field - fuel and energy, or both), with the land on which mining is carried out, there is only one prospect - reducing agrochemical parameters of soil. The latter include absorbent capacity - the ability to absorb and retain nutrients, soil reaction medium - level pH, availability of nutrients in the soil, which can be used at start agribusiness. That is, simply put, once these lands completely run out minerals, they are simply useless for agriculture.

A scale mining of minerals in the Donbass not a joke, so `` barren land in the region all the more.

`In the Donetsk region, there are more than 1 million of deposits of minerals, including this field, which was explored. Of these, about 400 deposits of fuel and energy resources. Last year, 444 operated field `, - the head of the environmental protection in the Donetsk region, Sergei Tretyakov.

If you deal with the question of deposits, which are developed exclusively open way, given and those that carried out exploration with a pilot operation in the area, there are 252 units of them. At the same from year to year, the volume of mining in which only grow, for example, comparing the performance of extraction of kaolin, which is used to generate electrical ceramics, paper and plastics, in 2010 and 2011, we get 356.3 thousand tons and 474.8 tons respectively.

GROWTH

General upward trend in the volume observed in all major destinations (clay, gypsum, limestone) for the past 7-8 years, with the exception of 2009, when the economic crisis has been some decline in production. It is these processes, according to experts, lead to an increase in acreage `empty #39;land - it is clear that the deposits of clay or limestone are not infinite in one particular field, and the constant increase in demand requires an increase in the number of deposits and, as a consequence of hectares involved elaboration. For example, in 2001 in the Donetsk region extraction of refractory clay was conducted in 8 fields, and in 2007 - 13.

All this, of course, is due to the desire to meet the demand for miners of minerals, and they do not think that actually consume the land, ideal for agriculture.

However, one should focus on the following curious fact - Today the area of land on which mining is not related to a group of energy, almost equal to the area reclaimed. But it does not merit environmental or mining companies - is to blame for all the same crisis of 2009, which lowered the `` volumes in about a year that made them with an area of reclaimed land. In this case, the past three years the trend continues - the growth of production and the growth areas of rehabilitation go hand in hand.

OPERATION #39;RECLAMATION#39;

Referring to the statistics for the last couple of years, we can see that in comparison with 2010, the rate of reclaimed land in the Donetsk region in 2011 increased almost two-fold - from 113 hectares to 202 hectares. But why reclamation and how to carry it out? As mentioned above, the extraction of natural resources, reduced agrochemical parameters that can be resumed exactly reclamation - it contributes to the humus content to its original level.

At the same time, according to environmentalists area, one of the most effective ways is the afforestation of land reclamation, you can `` kill two birds - first, to ensure the growth of humus, which is the main goal for the depleted and unfit for any kind of agro-industrial activities lands, and secondly - the closer to the optimum percentage of forest land in the region (at a rate of 12% forest cover in the Donetsk region of only 7.7%).

But despite the benefits of such activities, not all businesses and local governments have the problem due attention. So, amid good results of successful greening of internal and external dumps deposits in these locations, Donetsk region, as Novotroick, Komsomolsk and Dokuchaevsk, the region has a vast number of #39;Losers#39; - communities in which attention is not paid to this issue.

`Of course, the positive experience of developed land afforestation in the Donetsk region there, but we still have a lot to be done. Would like to see the level of attention of the local self-government to this issue was somewhat higher - the largest waste and nerekultivirovannye area of land in the territories of Artyom, Volnovakha, Dobropilskiy, Constantine, Slavic and Starabeshevskogo areas as well as in Gorlovka, Makeyevka and Donetsk `, - Sergey Tretyakov.

Donetsk Donbass region and generally belong to the zone of risky agriculture - weather conditions are difficult to predict crop yields can vary greatly, from agribusiness has all the prerequisites to die in the bud. This is a serious problem that could leave residents of the area at best, with high prices for food, and at worst - and at no products. That is why it is so urgent issue of land reclamation of the former fields - too irrational to throw areas, which may in the future become a full-fledged land and give a small but growth in the agricultural sector of the economy.

This implies the need for the inclusion of remediation programs in economic and social development of the region and control by local authorities - all of which help to somehow preserve the land which have already brought their favor and lost interest for the miners, but it was still rich region . Let them only in the long term.

IN THE KUZBASS MINES KOLMOGOROVSKAYA `2` EXPLODED METHANE

In the Kuzbass mines Kolmogorovskaya `2` Exploded METHANE

At the time of the accident in the mine were 70 people. The work on coal mining was stopped. 68 people independently came to the surface, two remained to the viability of the mine.

At 17:19 an open flame in the well was shot down.

The elimination of the consequences of the accident were involved paramilitary branch of the Mountain Rescue (VGSCH), Operations Group of the local garrison fire department, a psychologist (of 18 emergency workers Russia), and 5 people from the Agency for the protection of the population and territory of the Kemerovo region.

SECTION ZARECHNY `` PUT INTO OPERATION DROBILNOSORTIROVOCHNY COMPLEX

SECTION ZARECHNY `` PUT INTO OPERATION crushing plant

The complex includes a hopper - feeder, central conveyor, inclined crashing, two intermediate conveyor, rotary crusher and two conveyor transporting the finished product.

According to the director `razrezoupravleniya SUEK-Kuzbass` Sergey Kanzychakova, commissioning crushing plant will reduce production costs by eliminating outsourcing and increase the volume of shipments of coal for export.

`Through the use of new high-technology Zarcheny` cut `is the leader of the company#39;s open jobs. In September, the team cut extracted two million tons of coal, which is higher than last year#39;s result by 600 thousand tons of `- said Kanzychakov.