New event of the business program — MINGEO FORUM.
For the first time, the MiningWorld Russia 2025 business program will include the MINGEO FORUM “Mineral Resources in a Multipolar World. Investments. Knowledge. Technologies.”
Forum program:
April 23, Conference Hall G (Pavilion 1)
10:00 – 12:00 — Panel discussion “Knowledge and experience. Professional and educational standards for the mineral resources industry.”
12:00 – 13:30 — Focus session and open discussion. Digital transformation of the mining and geological industry. Current state and main achievements in the field of creating an information space for geology and subsoil use.
14:00 – 16:00 — Panel discussion “Russia, CRIRSCO, MIRR. National mining audit systems and independent reporting codes of the CRIRSCO family”.
16:00 – 18:00 — Panel discussion “Increasing the investment attractiveness of Russian subsoil resources — in the interests of business and the state. Investments in junior companies and the mineral resources industry of Russia.”
During an active and eventful day, the most pressing issues that require special attention and solutions in the current turbulent conditions of the global mineral resource market will be discussed: the development of the mineral resource industry in Russia, especially the raw material potential of Siberia, the Far East and the Arctic regions of Russia.
The discussion program of MINGEO will include a specific range of topics that are currently decisive for the development of the industry:
// issues of training professional personnel for the mineral resources industry of Russia and higher education science - “hot” reforms of professional secondary and higher education;
// active digitalization of the mining and geological industry, development of artificial intelligence and its implementation in science and industry;
// international codes for reporting on mineral resources and reserves, CRIRSCO - a unified template for independent national codes, competent persons and their role in the development of subsoil use and mineral resources, the MIRR code;
// issues of investment in the mining industry, increasing the investment attractiveness of Russian subsoil for domestic and friendly investors, international experience of investment in the mining industry, the “Junior” movement – Russia and MIRR in the current turbulent economic conditions.
Heads of Rosnedra and subordinate institutions, top managers, leading experts, scientists and specialists in the mineral resources industry of Russia and the world are invited to participate in the Sessions:
Kazanov Oleg Vladimirovich (Rosnedra, head of the federal agency), Arakcheev Dmitry Borisovich (Rosgeolfond, CEO), Spiridonov Igor Gennadievich (IMGRE, CEO), Shpurov Igor Viktorovich (GKZ RF, CEO), Lazarev Aleksandr Borisovich (GKZ RF, head of the Solid Mineral Reserves Department, chief geologist), Petrov Vadim Leonidovich (NUST MISIS, vice-rector, professor), Bobrov Andrey Viktorovich (Geological Faculty of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov, deputy dean, professor), Mashkovtsev Grigory Anatolyevich (Russian Geological Society, president of the society, professor), Svintitsky Igor Lvovich (representative of the CRIRSCO committee, OERN, executive director), Kurtsev Boris Vladislavovich (Society of OERN experts, chief expert on the digitalization of subsoil use), Romanova Liliya Gaifullovna (Eurasian Union of Subsoil Use Experts ESOUEN, Executive Director), Freiman Georgy Georgievich (PONEN (Kazakhstan), Chairman), Epshtein Igor Vladimirovich (CRIRSCO committee representative, IOM3 competent person, consultant of the mining and technology department of Polymetal Engineering), Nevlyutov Timur Nailevich (GINTELL - mining intelligence, General Director), Maxim Pudalov (GC Sputnik, General Director), Persianov Evgeny Viktorovich (Federal State Budgetary Institution GKZ RF, Deputy General Director), Leskov Mikhail Ivanovich (Society of Experts OERN, member of the Executive Committee), Samsonov Aleksey Andreevich (Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov, Geological Faculty, Academician V.I. Smirnov Foundation, Executive Director), Vercheba Aleksandr Aleksandrovich (Moscow Geological Prospecting Institute MGRI, Professor), Tishin Platon Alekseevich (Tomsk State University, Dean of the Geological and Geographical Faculty), Baranov Vladimir Nikolaevich (Siberian Federal University, Institute of Non-Ferrous Metals, Director).
Co-organizers of the MINGEO forum: the Society of Experts of Russia on Subsoil Use (SRU), the Higher School of Economics, the Geological Faculty of Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov, the Siberian Federal University, and the Unified State University of Economics.
Official support of the forum: Rosnedra, Russian Geological Society, Committee on Precious Metals and Precious Stones of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, State Commission on Reserves (GKZ), VIMS, TsNIGRI, IMGRE.