Examination Questions for Mining Department students
What does mining geology study?
Who were the prominent Russian scientists and well-known mining engineers laid the foundation of the Russian school of geology and mining? Who was one of the pioneers in scientific methods of coal gasification?
What did Terpigorev take a particular interest in?
What problems do Terpigorev’s works deal with?
What is due to Karpinsky much credit for?
What main groups of rocks do you know?
Do sedimentary rocks consist of particles of pre-existing rocks?
How were igneous rocks formed?
What is the most important characteristic feature of sediments?
Is gravel a consolidated mechanical sediment? And what about sand and clay?
What can you say about chemical sediments?
Can you give an example of organic sediments? How are they formed?
What process is called weathering?
What process is called physical weathering?
Where can the phenomenon of physical weathering be best observed?
What process is called chemical weathering?
What substances can act as solvents?
How do organisms act on the destruction of rocks?
What types of igneous rocks do you know?
What minerals are igneous rocks rich in?
Do you know how metamorphic rocks have been for formed?
Which rocks belong to the group of metamorphic?
Is the role of water great in metamorphism?
How can geologists trace the original structure of metamorphic rocks?
What fuels are often referred to as fossil fuels?
What does the word fossil mean?
What types of fossil fuels do you know?
What is the classification of coal based on?
What does coal contain?
What has coal been formed from?
What is prospecting?
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What are the three main stages of prospecting?
What methods of prospecting do you know?
What is mining?
Темы для беседы на экзамене
1. Мой Университет
2. Мой факультет
3. Выдающиеся геологи
4. Образование в Великобритании
5. Горное образование в России
6. Горное образование в Великобритании
7. Горное образование в США
Устные темы
Mining education in Russia
In pre-revolutionary Russia there were several higher mining schools training mining engineers.
After the revolution in 1918 the Moscow Mining Academy was established. But the number of specialists who graduated from those institutions was not enough to meet the demand for geologists and mining engineers needed by the growing mining industry. To cope with the task in 1930 the Mining Academy was transformed into some independent institutes. The Mining Institute, the Oil Institute and the Institute of Geological Prospecting were among them.
Russian mining higher education establishments provide full-time, part-time and postgraduate education and develop a wide range of programmes necessary to train highly-qualified specialists. They offer courses in mining technology, machinery and transport, hydraulic engineering, electrical engineering, automation, surveying, geodesy, information technology as well as courses in environment protection, economics and management, marketing studies, computer-aided design and others.
Laboratory work is an important part in training specialist. During periods of field work and practical training at mines and industrial enterprises students gain working experience and practical knowledge. They take part in research projects conducted by their departments as members of students’ scientific groups.
Students graduate from mining and geological institutes as mining engineers, mining mechanical engineers, mining electrical engineers, geologists, economists and managers in the field of mining industry and geology.