Mass Media Digest on the Meeting
«The Organizing Committee of the World Mining Congress held a meeting in St. Petersburg on May 14. This news was shared to StP-TASS in the oldest technical institution of higher education of Russia – in the Mining Institute. Leading representatives of the international mining industry and science took part in this forum that gathered together mining elite and outstanding politicians.
Modern mining industry faces a number of global engineering, economic, environmental and social problems. In the current situation of the world financial instability it requires mutual co-operation, engineering knowledge and professional experience sharing. These issues were in the agenda of the International Organizing Committee of the World Mining Congress in the northern capital».
St. Petersburg TASS Branch
«Unfortunately, crisis phenomena in the world financial and credit sphere interrupted the tendency of Russian coal recovery growth. Because of low demand for coal products, starting from the second half of 2008 we witnessed decrease in the volume of production at coal enterprises, and the rate of reduction in the coal industry is higher than in other industries. At the meeting the following key tendencies of activities in the post-crisis period were discussed: improvement of the financial conditions of mining companies primarily due to the increase in the coal supply volume to the domestic market for electrical energy industry needs; ensuring industry development perspectives primarily due to intensification of coal production in basic coal fields; improvement of coal products quality based on coal processing (including coal beneficiation); development of an export-oriented transport infrastructure with an adequate growth in export supplies volume with a positive dynamics of the international market environment; stabilization of coal companies consolidation processes and separate outsourcing units development».
Berg Privileges Magazine
«Russian mining industry will have to go through reformations comparable to restructuring of the 1990s. At least this condition is required for enhancement of competitive domestic coal abilities at the domestic market and also for release of additional natural gas volume to be exported. This is the opinion of G.L. Krasniansky, Chairman of the Russian Organizing Committee of the World Mining Congress and his colleagues who gathered in May in St. Petersburg in order to discuss tasks of the International Coal Forum planned for 2012, and Russian mining industry perspectives»
Power Engineering and Industry Newspaper, No. 10(126), May 2009
Article «Russian coal: problems and solutions»
«The motto of the WMC was “New perspectives and concepts of the mining sector”. Modern mining industry faces a number of global engineering, economic, environmental and social problems. In the current situation of the world financial instability it requires mutual co-operation, engineering knowledge and professional experience sharing, and also assistance to those in need. These issues were in the agenda of the 90th International Organizing Committee of the World Mining Congress».
Information Agency «Baltic Business News»
