X International Forum
June 23 – 25, 2026
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Hotel "Radisson Blu"
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Chelyabinsk

Seymartec mining. Efficiency of Mining Operations — 2026

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Program

Day Nº1

Galaxy Hall 3. Section 1: Anniversary Session

  • Presentations by Russian mining and metallurgical companies with a rich legacy, celebrating upcoming anniversaries. Senior executives of these milestone companies are invited to deliver keynote addresses and share their companies’ long-term success stories.

Galaxy Hall 3. Sections 2-3: Technical Delivery of Key Investment Projects in Russia’s Mining and Metallurgical Sector Over the Past Decade: Concept, Implementation, Technical Challenges, and Outcomes

  • Presentations by technical leaders from mining and metallurgical companies who have delivered key industry projects over the past decade, including the development of new deposits, the construction of large-scale processing plants with substantial investments and extensive production facilities, as well as landmark industrial solutions of strategic importance for the entire industry.

Galaxy Hall 3. Section 4: Open-Pit Mining and Drilling & Blasting Operations

  • Modeling, forecasting, and design in open-pit blasting operations.
  • Tools for optimizing drilling and blasting operations in open-pit mines.
  • Localization and substitution of imported equipment and components for drilling and blasting operations.
  • Advanced rock fragmentation methods.
  • Electronic initiation systems to improve blast fragmentation quality and optimize rock preparation, enhancing excavation efficiency.
  • Automated drilling rigs and drilling robotics. AI-powered advisory systems for open-pit drilling.

Sigma Hall. Section 3: Underground Mining (Block 1)

  • Monitoring the condition of underground workings
  • Mitigation of ore hang-ups in underground mining operations
  • Technical aspects of developing new mining levels
  • Experience in constructing underground crushing facilities
  • Improving stoping productivity
  • Use of drones in underground mining
  • Communication systems in underground mining operations
  • Preparing for the transition from open-pit to underground mining: practical approaches
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Sigma Hall. Section 4: Underground Mining (Block 2)

  • Reducing downtime in ore transportation from the stope
  • Ensuring mine safety
  • Mine ventilation infrastructure
  • Mining methods for inclined ore bodies in complex geological and geomechanical conditions
  • Modeling and mine planning for ore deposits using modern software solutions
  • Prediction of rock fracturing and collapse
  • Application of combined mining methods
  • Application of cut-and-fill mining methods
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Day Nº2

Galaxy Hall 3. Section 1: Automation and Digitalization in the Mining Industry (Block 1)

  • Automated dispatch systems for open-pit operations
  • Digitalization of geological and mine planning support
  • Digital twins of mining operations (open-pit and underground) based on simulation modeling
  • Application of artificial intelligence in open-pit and underground mining
  • Productivity improvement through the implementation of digital advisory systems
  • Autonomous technologies in mining, including unmanned equipment, robotic platforms, and IIoT solutions
  • Implementation of computer vision-based systems
  • Deployment of private LTE/5G networks: practical approaches

Galaxy Hall 3. Section 2: Transport and Haulage Systems, and Transport Digitalization at Mining and Processing Plants (Block 1)

  • Development of logistics infrastructure for new mining operations: practical experience
  • Rail infrastructure modernization projects
  • Dispatch systems for mining and haulage operations
  • Mining transport equipment: solutions from China and CIS countries
  • Optimization of open-pit logistics using predictive analytics
  • Digital twins of logistics systems
  • Implementation of collision avoidance systems: practical experience
  • Fuel monitoring and management

Galaxy Hall 3. Section 3: Transport and Haulage Systems, and Transport Digitalization at Mining and Processing Plants (Block 2)

  • Selection of open-pit equipment considering geological conditions and long-term mine planning: challenges and best practices
  • Digital services for monitoring material haulage volumes
  • AI applications in fleet management systems
  • Smart mine: intelligent conveyor belt monitoring systems
  • Real-time tracking of personnel and equipment
  • Collision avoidance in open-pit operations
  • Maintenance and repair of rail equipment in deep underground mining
  • Digitalization of excavation and loading operations
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Galaxy Hall 3. Section 4: Automation and Digital Transformation in Mining

  • Robotics programs: deployment of robotic systems — from autonomous drilling rigs to driverless haul trucks and underground equipment. Case studies from leading domestic mining companies
  • Transformation of mining geological information systems
  • Domestic geological information system solutions for mining
  • MES and ERP implementation projects, including mining-specific MES solutions
  • Industrial AI applications at mining and processing operations: practical experience
  • Geomettalurgy projects: implementation results and outcomes
  • Digital modeling at mining sites

Sigma Hall. Section 1: Improving the Efficiency of Ore Processing (Block 1)

  • Application of grinding technologies to improve the processing efficiency of refractory ores
  • Multi-stage grinding as an advanced processing approach: new process flowsheets and equipment configurations
  • Modern crushing and screening plants
  • Machine vision systems for ore composition analysis and foreign object detection on conveyor belts
  • Application of AI for process control at beneficiation plants
  • Fine screening technologies: best practices
  • Modeling of ore preparation processes
  • Reducing energy consumption in crushing, grinding, and screening processes
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Sigma Hall. Section 2: Improving the Efficiency of Ore Processing (Block 2)

  • Selection of optimal processing flowsheets for new ore types
  • Digital control of grinding processes using machine learning: case studies from mining and processing operations
  • Improving profitability through Mine-to-Mill optimization
  • Prototypes of grinding control systems
  • Optimization of crushing and screening quality as a foundation for efficient beneficiation plant performance
  • Video monitoring systems for conveyors and other facilities: practical applications
  • Screening equipment
  • Mill protection and lining solutions
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Sigma Hall. Section 3: Flotation

  • Reagents as a means to reduce losses of valuable components to tailings
  • Advancement of flotation methods for processing mineral-chemical and rare metal ores
  • Next-generation flotation machines for maximizing mineral recovery
  • Application of AI for flotation process control
  • Real-time optimization of control parameters for flotation equipment
  • Refractory gold and flotation
  • Thickening technologies
  • Methods for improving mineral recovery
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Sigma Hall. Session 4: Mineral Processing — Flotation, Magnetic Separation, and Other Beneficiation Methods

  • High-tech separation solutions
  • Radiometric beneficiation methods
  • Equipment monitoring at beneficiation plants
  • Pilot and industrial trials of dry magnetic separation systems
  • Testing of enhanced flotation reagent regimes
  • Application of bulk-selective flotation schemes for various ore types: practical experience
  • Co-processing of ore and by-products to improve overall project economics
  • Integrated technical solutions for vibrating conveyors, screening, and magnetic separation equipment

Day Nº3

Galaxy Hall 3. Section 1: Mineral Processing at Gold Mining Operations (Block 1)

  • Digital twin of a gold processing plant
  • Detoxification of hazardous tailings storage waste
  • Ore activation using intensifying reagents
  • Predictive modeling and risk management in reclaimed areas
  • Heap leaching: capacity expansion and reprocessing of previously leached heaps
  • Processing flowsheets for clay-rich ores
  • Extending the service life of mill liners
  • Improving gold recovery from carbonaceous clay-rich shales

Galaxy Hall 3. Section 2: Mineral Processing at Gold Mining Operations (Block 2)

  • Technologies for the separate recovery of gold and uranium
  • Advanced methods for gold recovery from double refractory ores
  • Improving recovery from complex ores and tailings, including problematic ore types
  • Thermal pretreatment for processing refractory ores
  • Gold processing equipment

Galaxy Hall 3. Section 3: Engineering and Energy Infrastructure at Mining and Processing Plants

  • Design and construction of energy infrastructure at mining and processing plants
  • Modernization of existing mining and processing plants to increase processing capacity
  • Development of metallurgical production for high value-added products
  • Engineering protection of mining operations
  • Design of protection systems for underground workings against groundwater and surface water
  • Monitoring of rock mass stress–strain conditions
  • Prediction of deformations and collapses, and stability control of pit slopes and underground workings
  • Drainage systems, dewatering installations, and boreholes to reduce hydrostatic pressure on pillars
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Galaxy Hall 3. Section 4: Asset Management in Mining Operations — Reliability and Digitalization of Maintenance at Mining and Processing Plants

  • Effective lifecycle management of production assets
  • Equipment maintenance and repair strategies
  • Implementation of computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS)
  • Automated diagnostics systems and mobile data collection technologies
  • Equipment condition monitoring
  • Predictive technologies for forecasting wear of critical components in mining equipment
  • AR/VR technologies for workforce training and performance improvement
  • Lubricant condition monitoring

Sigma Hall. Section 1: Auxiliary Processes — Thickening, Slurry Concentration, Filtration and Drying. Tailings and Water Management (Block 1)

  • Reduction and utilization of beneficiation waste
  • Large-scale investment projects for the modernization and construction of tailings storage facilities
  • Modern environmentally sustainable tailings storage facilities: implementation practices
  • Tailings disposal methods and strategies
  • Tailings storage monitoring
  • Assessment of the technical condition of tailings storage facilities
  • Integrated tailings reprocessing technologies for concentrate recovery

Sigma Hall. Section 2: Auxiliary Processes — Thickening, Slurry Concentration, Filtration and Drying. Tailings and Water Management (Block 2)

  • Improving the efficiency of dewatering in mineral processing operations
  • Technological solutions for slurry thickening
  • Filtration of slurry and tailings fines
  • Beneficiation of metallurgical slag dumps
  • Alternative processing routes for titanomagnetite ores
  • Research on beneficiation of metallurgical slag dumps
  • Automation of dewatering processes in mineral processing
  • Technologies and equipment for process water and waste treatment

Sigma Hall. Section 3: Auxiliary Processes — Thickening, Slurry Concentration, Filtration and Drying. Tailings and Water Management (Block 3)

  • Reprocessing of fine fractions with recovery of valuable products back into the main process
  • Reduction of pollutant discharge through closed-loop water systems
  • Advanced treatment of mine water
  • Dust collection and modernization of drying equipment and kilns
  • Modernization of industrial wastewater management systems
  • Tailings reprocessing using combined flotation and low-temperature roasting methods
  • Equipment and technologies for thickening, slurry concentration, filtration, and drying
  • Equipment for water management systems

Sigma Hall. Section 4: Efficiency and Safety of Mining and Processing Operations

  • Modernization of risk management systems in mining operations
  • Operational management of production risks
  • The role of robotics in improving efficiency and safety in open-pit and underground mining
  • Ensuring pit slope stability
  • Monitoring and control of lifting equipment operations
  • Reducing transport-related injuries and incidents

Audience Profile: Industrial Companies

  • Chief Executive Officers (CEOs)
  • Directors of Strategy / Strategic Development Directors
  • Chief Technical Officers (CTOs)
  • Chief Information Officers (CIOs)
  • Directors of Transport and Logistics
  • Maintenance and Reliability Directors
  • HSE Directors (Health, Safety and Environment)
  • Heads of Mineral Processing / Chief Processing Engineers
  • Chief Mining Engineers
  • Chief Engineers
  • Chief Mechanical Engineers
  • Chief Power Engineers

Audience Profile: Solution Providers:

  • Chief Executive Officers (CEOs)
  • Chief Commercial Officers (CCOs)
  • Business Development Directors
  • Regional Directors / Heads of Representative Offices

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Venue
June 23 – 25, 2026 | Hotel "Radisson Blu" | Chelyabinsk
454000, Russia, Chelyabinsk, Truda, 179