Mining Laboratory

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Head of the Laboratory - PhD Nika Bochorishvili

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The Mining Laboratory is structurally a part of the Underground Structures Construction and Mining Technologies Center.

MAIN SCIENTIFIC DIRECTIONS:

• Technical and economic assessment of ore processing and preparation of business plans; 
• Improvement of design methods for opening and development of sheet and vein type deposits;
• Research and development of a technology for mining deep levels of thick coal seams under difficult mining and geological conditions;
• Development of methods for complex utilization of manganese deposits;
• Development of technologies for remining of Chiatura manganese fields;
• Development of open-pit mining and open-pits recultivation projects;
• Thermophysical calculation of underground constructions;
• Aerology of natural and manmade underground spaces;
• Design of heat regime and ventilation of transport tunnels;
• Determination of the aerodynamics of karst caves and allowable cave personnel by minimizing the anthropological impact;
• Emergency management and risk assessment in underground structures;
• Study of hydraulic silting materials and technology for their transportation;
• Development and research of abrasive pulp's pumping means;
• Research and improvement of the performance characteristics of technological hydrotransport systems;
• Investigation of the operating regimes of multi-step hydrotransport systems of waste of ferrous and nonferrous ores enrichment.

MATERIAL-TECHNICAL BASE:

Measuring Devices and Apparatus:

  

SCIENTIFIC GRANT PROJECTS:

1. №216968 "Prevention methods development against aerosol terrorism for ventilation of Tbilisi subway“ (30.11.2016-29.11.2018). Donor: Shota Rustaveli National Since Foundation (SRNSF).

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