Tsvetnye Metally

The articles, published in the 4-th issue of "Tsvetnye Metally" (Non-ferrous metals) journal (April, 2013) share the subject area of heavy and light non-ferrous metals and rare metals. This issue shares the questions of theory and practice of ore concentration, production and processing of non-ferrous metals, complex usage of crude ores, economics and management of production and industrial automation.

Norilsk Branch «Institute «Norilskproekt» of «Gipronickel» Institute» LLC celebrates its 75-th anniversary in May, 2013. The specialists from the Institute «Norilskproekt» have projected the Company with its mines, industrial enterprises, various engineering communications and unique town within the Polar circle. Nowadays, the collective of Norilsk Branch carries out the successful accomplishing of the tasks, which were set by the Company. The collective also directly participates in realization of the strategy of industrial and technical development of this Company. This issue includes an article «The 75-th years way, which started with a clean slate».

The section «Economics and Management of Production» includes the article by A. V. Kolmakov, which describes the sales policy of Australian nickel company Western Areas NL (WSA).

The article by A. V. Kurkov, P. M. Solozhenkin and S. N. Shcherbakova is published in the section «Beneficiation». This article describes the possibility of expanding of raw materials base for antimony production in Russia, due to introduction of complex gold-antimony ores of Kyuchus deposit (Sakha Republic, Yakutia) into the processing.

The article «Processing of silver-containing gas purification cakes of the smelting department of slime production at the polar division of “Norilsk nickel” MMC» describes the developed and commercially tested scheme. This scheme includes the processing of gas purification cakes by sodium sulphide solution and the following supplement of these cakes to the roasting stage, along with the copper slime. This scheme makes possible the extraction of silver from gas purification cakes into half-finished product, which content is close to the marketable product — rough silver of SChP (СЧП) grade.

University of Mining and Geology "St. Ivan Rilski" (Bulgaria) celebrates its 60-th anniversary in June, 2013. This university is a unique Bulgarian educational institution, which graduates are high-level specialists in development, extraction and processing of minerals and energetic resources. The university is detaily described in the article «University of Mining and Geology "St. Ivan Rilski" - past and present», which is published in this issue.

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