The IIIrd International Innovative Mining Symposium at T.F. Gorbachev Kuzbass State Technical University as a Step to Closer Cooperation of Science, Education and Business in the Mining Region

For the third time T.F. Gorbachev Kuzbass State Technical University is holding an event important for Russian mining science and education, expanding the boundaries of interaction between scientists and practice experts, opening up new opportunities for joint discussion of the most urgent problems of mineral resources sector development in Russia and other countries. The vector of discussions of the Third Mining Symposium is aimed at solving the pressing problem of extracting sector of economy and raw material clusters development – ensuring environmental and industrial safety. Today, this largely determines the benchmarks of the innovative development of mining and deep processing of minerals, recycling of mining waste, import substitution of modern equipment for enterprises of the mineral resources sector. Currently, issues of environmental and industrial safety go far beyond the regulatory framework, turning into a comprehensive engineering, educational and social-and-economic discourse, forming a new agenda and culture of interaction between science and production, a new league of representatives of the international community of technical universities.


Introduction
The Third International Innovative Mining Symposium (successfully held October 03-05, 2018) became a place for discussing environmental and industrial safety issues in the solid mineral deposits mining. It brought together universities and authorities, representatives of Russian and foreign companies engaged in the extraction and processing of mineral raw materials, recycling of wastes, mining equipment production and service.
More than 400 scientists and teachers, enterprises representatives, members of business community and government bodies, students and post-graduates became the guests of Opening and Plenary Session at the IIIrd Symposium.

Materials and Methods
The participation of more than 400 representatives in the Symposium made possible not only to expand the network of business, scientific, educational and cultural ties, but also exchange experience in advanced processing of solid mineral deposits, preserving the biodiversity of mining regions and creating a favorable environment for the residents of coal mining localities.
Researchers, engineers and managers of Russian and foreign companies of solid minerals mining and processing, equipment manufacturing and servicing, took part in the round tables "Modern Coal Processing Technologies", "Economic and Social Development of Mining Regions", in Sections: "Environmental and Industrial Safety of Coal Mining", "Geotechnology: Underground, Surface, Construction", "Mining Machines and Equipment", "Electrical Equipment and Automation in Mining" (Figure 1).   The section was attended by 47 experts who represented 15 scientific and educational institutions from 5 cities of Siberian Federal District, Moscow and abroad. Along with scientists, the representatives of Kuzbass coal companies and enterprises, as well as research and production firms, took part in the section.

The Round Tables
In this Section eighteen reports were made in the following areas: Legislative and Sci- The participants of the Section noted that the extraction of mineral resources is the most important sector of the Russian economy, which is dynamically developing with the growth of productivity and technical support of mining operations. Moreover, for the comprehensive development of mining regions, the main issue is not only a new technological and economic breakthrough, but also the preservation of friendly environment for the residents of Kuzbass. The reports presented at the Symposium highlighted the need for systematic study and comprehensive development of the legislative and scientific foundations of subsoil use, improvement of environmental and social policies of coal companies, solving environmental and labor safety problems during mineral resources extraction and processing, innovative modernization of mineral resource extracting and processing enterprises, waste disposal, training of highly skilled personnel.
The Symposium participants agreed that this set of directions of scientific discussions is associated with the task of national importance -the implementation of the provisions of To implement the provisions of the Development Strategy of Kemerovo Region until 2035, it was recommended to the Administration of Kemerovo Region to work out: 1. Kemerovo Region Coal Industry Development Program in order to streamline and coordinate the volumes and locations of coal mining with the development of a plan for restoration of disturbed territories and control of its implementation. 2. The Strategy of Biodiversity Conservation and Specially Protected Natural Areas Development for Kemerovo region. 3. The strategic environmental assessment of the Program of Social and Economic Development of Kemerovo Region, taking into account the social structure and biological value of the territories.
In the introduction period of the best available technologies and improved requirements as a part of environmental regulation, the heads of coal companies, mines, coal preparation plants of Kuzbass, as well as design institutes are offered the following: 1. To pay attention not only to the economic efficiency of advanced scientific research results implementation, but above all to their ability to ensure industrial safety and reduce the environmental damage caused by mining. 2. To develop corporate programs for modernization of production based on the best available technologies under ITS 16-2016 "Mining industry. Common processes and methods". 3. To develop corporate strategies and standards in accordance with the hierarchy of measures to reduce negative impacts on biodiversity in the chain: "Prevent -Reduce -Restore -Compensate". 4. To increase the disclosure of mining companies through corporate social reporting and posting the project documents which have passed the state approval in terms of Environmental Impact Assessment (EIAs) on official websites. 5. To develop the environmental management of companies, improve the professional level of employees, provide with extra skilled specialists to perform new tasks in terms of the company's environmental responsibility and public reporting. 6. To apply digital technologies and Geo Information Systems (GISs) to improve industrial environmental monitoring. 7. To participate in drafting the regional plans for specially protected natural territories development. 8. To draw the attention of academic and industry research institutes, universities and design organizations to the need for a radical revision of mining technological processes, taking into account the restricting of modern legislative requirements in the field of industrial safety, protection of subsoil and environment. 9. To work out the issues of foundation of coal technological complexes (clusters) with continuous extraction and enrichment of coal, as well as the recycling of coal preparation and burning waste.
To ensure a high level of personnel potential of mining industry specialists, it was recommended to the universities of Kemerovo region: 1. To include in curriculum the results of new research and engineering developments in the field of technology, mechanization and automation of coal mining and enrichment, the revitalization of disturbed lands, ensuring industrial safety and reducing negative impact on environment. 2. To consider the importance of high-quality training of mining engineers in industrial safety, conduct regular certification of teachers of core disciplines for students of mining specializations in general issues of industrial safety, in accordance with the requirements of ROSTECHNADZOR of 29.01.2007 No 37 "On the Order of Training and Certification of Employees of Organizations Supervised by the Federal Service for Environmental, Technological and Nuclear Supervision".
3. To attract students and post-graduates to the conferences and exhibitions devoted to the development and increase of economic efficiency of introducing new research results that simultaneously ensure the industrial and environmental safety of coal industry enterprises, increasing their competitiveness in the global energy market.

Conclusion
The Fourth International Innovative Mining Symposium is planned on October 2019, as the regular high-ranking scientific event, a discussion platform for scientists, expert practitioners, active innovators, members of the Russian and international mining community, as well as a place of acquaintance with the utmost culture of unique mining region -Kuzbass.
The international community of mining engineers, research scientists in the fields of mining and solid minerals processing, industrial ecology, mining machinery and equipment, sustainable social and economic development of mining clusters, takes a keen interest in discussing important issues of innovative development of mineral resources sector.
Today it is obvious that the future of mining is impossible without taking into account demanding environmental requirements for solid minerals mining and processing, without revitalizing the areas disturbed by mining, without introducing Industry 4.0 technologies into the production of mining machinery and equipment, especially safety equipment, without forming programs for integrated innovative and social and economic development of mining clusters.
The necessity to unite the efforts of science and education representatives, stakeholders is caused by the complexity and interdependence of discussed industrial, environmental, organizational and economic problems that enterprises and companies of mineral resource sector, administrations of mining regions face within the transition to the new technological layer, within expanding the share of the Russian Federation in the world energy market.
At the IVth International Innovative Mining Symposium the range of topics will follow the debated problems of geotechnology and mineral processing development, coal-fired power industry in the mining regions, the introduction of smart systems for managing mining machines and equipment, ensuring industrial and environmental safety, reclamation and post-mining, social and economic development, training of engineers with the competences of global level.
The main working areas of the Fourth Symposium: 1. Innovative technologies of mining, transportation, utilization, processing and recycling of mineral raw materials. The Organizing Committee and scientific editors express their gratitude to the publishing house EDP Sciences (France) and the scientific serial E3S Web of Conferences as a part of EDP Sciences for their prompt assistance in publishing the materials of the I, II and III Innovative Mining Symposiums and indexing in the international scientific citation database Scopus (Elsevier).