Poll spent by company Mincom together with the Publishing house “Ore and Metals”, according to the experts, is one of the most interesting and significant for the Russian mining industry during the last years. Competitiveness of the Russian mining companies and their influence on the world market serve one of the cores as that for discussion in branch among heads and in specialized editions. In this poll opinions of heads of the leading Russian mining companies on such key themes, as the factors promoting growth and development of the mining companies of Russia are collected; the bottlenecks containing growth; the advanced branch experience of the decision of existing problems; use of information technology for optimization of the major processes and perfection of administrative control. Results of poll contain the information necessary for fuller and objective understanding of a current state of the Russian mining industry and prospects of its development in the ratio with a situation in the world market as an important component of research is comparison of the received results to the data of similar poll in other regions of the world. Results of research will be undoubtedly useful to heads and experts of the mountain enterprises, state structures, mass media and workers of an education sphere.

About organizers of poll

Company Mincom which now is part ABB Group — the world supplier of the software and services for capital-intensive branches with a work wide experience, including, in the mining industry. Already more than 30 years experts Mincom develop and introduce specialized information decisions for the mountain enterprises, helping the clients to raise efficiency of use of fixed capital and a manpower, to optimize key business processes of the enterprise as a whole. The flagman decision of the company — Mincom Ellipse is the modern integrated solution of class EAM/ERP providing a transparency of processes and complete control over industrial actives and a manpower of the enterprise. The detailed information on decisions of company Mincom and on experience of use of these decisions can be found in mining industry on a company site www.mincom.ru. The publishing house “Ore and Metals” is one of leading and authoritative Russian technical publishing houses, covers in the editions all subjects of mining and metallurgy. Its structure includes known and dear magazines “Gornyi Zhurnal” (“Mining Journal”), “Tsvetnye Metally” (“Non-ferrous Metals”), “Chernye Metally” (“Ferrous Metals)” and “Obogashchenie Rud” (“Mineral Processing”) — all over ten periodicals on mountain and metallurgical subjects in Russian and English languages. To receive the full information on activity of production of the Publishing house “Ore and Metals” and to familiarize with the catalog of let out production it is possible on a site www.rudmet.net.