Irkutsk-based Service TechnoProm LLC has built Russia's biggest centrifugal concentrator for the mining industry, the Irkutsk regional government's press service said. "This equipment is designed to extract gold, platinum and other valuable metals when ores from hardrock deposits are processed. The Irkutsk model's capacity is up to 1,000 tonnes per hour, and there are very few concentrators like it in the world today," the report says, quoting Nikita Kiselev, CEO of Service TechnoProm. The equipment ...

Scientists at St. Petersburg State University (SPGU) have discovered a new mineral – olgafrankite – in the rocks of Norilsk and the Rumuruti meteorite. For the scientific world, the discovery was a sensation, because this mineral was for decades considered a ‘cosmic calling card’. A new mineral, that consists of nickel and germanium, was discovered in the rocks of the Norilsk Ore region in the Krasnoyarsk Krai. For about 40 years, these samples were kept as museum exhibits, and now scientists ...