Heavy Mineral Concentrate Sampling (HMS)

Today regular competitions of the IX All-Russian Open Field Olympiad of Young Geologists took place in Kazan at Lake Izumrudnoye. This time teams showed their mastership in heavy mineral concentrate sampling. Under the terms of competitions participants had to find small copper fractions in 3 liters of special sand within 20 minutes. According to the judge from Kazakhstan Konstantin Dissel, it is one of the most inexpensive, but very efficient types of work. Teams’ performance is marked very high. The winner will be announced during the closing ceremony of the IX All-Russian Open Field Olympiad of Young Geologists that will be held on August 9 at 11.00 at the premises of children recreation camps “Solnechny” and “Zarechye”.

Forty teams from the Altai territory of Arkhangelsk region, Amursk region, Bashkortostan, Buryatia, Voronezh region, Irkutsk region, Kaliningrad region, Kemerovo region, Kirov region, the Krasnodar territory, the Krasnoyarsk territory, Lipetsk region, Magadan region, Moscow, Moscow region, Novosibirsk region, Omsk region, Orengurg region, Perm region, the Primorsk territory, Rostov region, Samara region, Sverdlovsk region, Tatarstan, Tomsk region, Tula region, Tyumen region, Chelyabinsk region, Chuvashia, Yaroslavl region, as well as Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine and Tadzhikistan take part in the Olympiad.

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Heavy mineral concentrate sampling is one of the main methods used in the course of search of diamond and other deposits. It is designed to detect minerals that indicate the metallizing process, to establish haloes of their dispersion, to solve a series of general geological problems related to identification of the source and ways of ablation of friable materials, as well as to establish favorable mineralogical associations. Heavy mineral concentrate is visually examined directly in the course of the washing process.

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