Mincom, one of the leading global providers of software and services to asset-intensive industries, recently held its first ever mining IT summit in St Petersburg, Russia to share best practices for optimising asset management, production and safety across the mining value chain. The event, titled “Modern Technologies of Mining Enterprise Management 2011,” attracted more than 100 executives from some of the region’s largest mining organizations, including Uralkali, Kazakhmys, Severstal Resource, Metalloinvest, ENRC, Ferrexpo, Mechel, NLMK, Polus Gold, Alrosa, ARMZ, Evrokhim and Polymetal.The event was opened by Vladimir Litvinenko, Chancellor of the St Petersburg Mining Institute, Russia’s oldest higher-education institute devoted to engineering and one of the oldest mining schools in Europe. Presentations were also given by a number of Mincom’s customers in the region, who detailed their experiences using Mincom Ellipse, a leading solution for enterprise work and asset management; and Mincom MineScape, one of the industry’s most advanced mine planning and modelling solutions. Among the keynote speakers were Eugeny Borovikov from Kazakhmys, one of the world’s ten-largest copper producers; Nikolay Marshak from SPb-Giproshakht, a leading Russian organization in the field of mine design; and Dmitry Konstantinov from Uralkali, a leading Russian potash mining company. 

“We are very pleased by the impressive turnout and positive feedback from our first summit in this region, which helped demonstrate Mincom’s regional commitment to the mining industry in Russia, Kazakhstan and the Ukraine,” said Craig Jones, executive vice president of worldwide field operations, Mincom. “The forum provided a good opportunity for leaders across mining organisations in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States to share ideas and best practices for leveraging today’s leading solutions for asset management and technical mining to maximise business performance and profitability.”