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General Information
G.Tsulukidze Mining Institute (TMI),
formerly known as the Institute of Mining Mechanics of the Georgian
Academy of Sciences was founded in 1957. Currently the Institute
having the LPPL status under the Ministry of Science and Education
of Georgia, employs about 75 scientists with advanced degrees.
Traditionally the Institute has been doing basic and applied
research for the mining industry. An expertise, still exists in the
development of explosives, novel materials, explosive and shock-wave
physics, explosive strengthening and consolidation, minerals
processing and enriching technologies, and mining ecology.
Institute’s Focus
The Institute has restructured
to focus on major application areas demanded by the industry:
construction of underground structures, underground and opencast
mining of mineral deposits, investigation of rock properties,
mineral processing and treatment of wastes.
The Institute has an Underground Experimental base for testing
explosives with up to 100 kg of the TNT equivalent. Other equipment
includes presses (TechPress2TM hydraulic-pneumatic automatic
mounting press), test benches, optical microscopes, X-ray
diffraction system X1 (Scintag, USA), and metallographic, chemical,
and diagnostic laboratory equipment.
Valuable Technology Offerings
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Underground constructions design methods and building technologies
theoretical principles;
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Rational adoption methods for layer (bedded) and vessel type
(lode) deposits;
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Underground constructions explosion effect protection systems;
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Investigation of mining enterprises environmental problems and
ways of their solution;
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Advanced technologies for open cast mining carrying out;
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Formation of new ecologically friendly industrial explosives;
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Pipe-line hydro-transportation systems, safe and reliable
operation complex events, pipeline electricity transportation system
transient regimes;
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The ropeway transportation means, lifting transport devices and
mechanisms;
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New efficient technology of water cleaning from oil by film
flotation.
Scientific Cooperation and
Technology Transfer
The Mining Institute has close international scientific
collaboration with research centers and Institutes of EU Countries:
Germany (Clausthal University of Technology), Greece, Netherlands,
Poland, Spain, Bulgaria, Czech Republic; USA (Los-Alamos National
Laboratory, US Army Research Laboratory, Georgia Institute of
Technology, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, University
of San Diego); Russia (Semenov's Institute of Chemical Physics in
Chernogolovka, Institute of High Pressure, Novosibirsk Institute of
Hydrodynamics); Ukraine (Paton's Institute of Electrical Welding,
Dnipropetrovsk State Design Bureau "Yuzhnoye", Rocket Motors
Department), etc.
In recent years the Institute has participated in a number of
scientific projects funded by International Science & Technology
Center, Science and Technology Center in Ukraine, US Civilian
Research & Development Foundation, NATO Science for Peace and
Security Programme (SPS), INTAS.
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