Author 1:

Name & Surname: Davydenko V. V.
Company: Kirovsk Division, PhosAgro AG LLC (Kirovsk, Russia)
Work Position: Director, Kirovsk Division, PhosAgro AG LLC — General Director, Apatit JSC
Contacts: e-mail: Vdavydenko@phosagro.ru

Author 2:

Name & Surname: Levin B. V.
Company: Research Institute for Fertilizers and Insectofungicides (NIUIF) (Moscow, Russia)
Work Position: General Director

Author 3:

Name & Surname: Loikov S. A.
Company: PhosAgro AG LLC (Moscow, Russia)
Work Position: Director for Personnel and Social Policy Issues

Author 4:

Name & Surname: Shepel A. V.
Company: Kirovsk Division, PhosAgro AG LLC (Kirovsk, Russia)
Work Position: Director for Personnel and Social Policy Issues

It is by now over 10 years that the National Mineral Resources University (University of Mines), Saint Petersburg, and PhosAgro holding company have been carrying on cooperation in terms of team projects in the sphere of education and research, strategic planning of PhosAgro progression. At the present time, Apatit engages 377 graduates of the University of Mines, among which there are 247 engineers. The students have an opportunity to train at the company. The University structure includes the Khibiny technical college, which contributes to the professional education quality improvement. In the research sphere, the University scientific men have prepared a survey of the current condition and potential of phosphate ore and raw material supplies base in Russia and abroad, and performed an analysis of the ore and raw material supplies base of Apatit company. The management solutions and process designs targeted at the production advancement are proposed and substantiated. In particular, the researchers have explored extractability of the bottom and sidewall reserves of actual open pit mines. The higher priority joint project is the development of crystallization technology for concurrent recovery of rare earth metals from products of sulfuric acid treatment of apatite concentrate by dihydrate method.