Laboratory of Special Methods for Raw Material Enrichment

Head of Laboratory
Aliya Margulanovna Alimzhanova, PhD
The laboratory staff includes 5 employees, among them: 1 Doctor of Technical Sciences, Academician; 1 PhD; 1 Doctoral student; 1 Master's student.
Lead Specialists:
D.K. Aitkulov, A.M. Alimzhanova
Brief Description of Laboratory Activities
- Conducting fundamental, exploratory, and applied scientific research in the field of processing mineral and man-made raw materials.
- Development of technological processes for the production of tungsten and titanium carbide powders.
- Development of precision titanium alloys alloyed with rare and rare-earth metals, pilot and semi-industrial testing.
Main Scientific Areas
- Development and creation of new heat-resistant titanium alloys alloyed with refractory metals.
- Development of integrated processing technology for vanadium-containing quartzites from the Karatau region with production of ferroalloys. Enrichment of technological waste.
List of Developed Technologies, Materials, and Methods
- BR23991563-OT-24 – Development of innovative resource-saving technologies for the extraction and integrated processing of mineral and man-made raw materials. “Catalytic systems to ensure carbon neutrality in the conversion of carbon oxides into feed products and other target products.”.
- BR19777171-OT-24. BR19777171-OT-24 – Development of fundamentally new technologies for the integrated processing of polymetallic raw materials3. AP05133378-OT-20
- AP05133378-OT-20 – Development and creation of new heat-resistant titanium alloys alloyed with refractory metals (2018–2020)
- AP23489340 – Development of integrated processing technology for vanadium-containing quartzites from the Karatau region with production of ferroalloys.
- “Development of fundamentally new technologies for the integrated processing of polymetallic raw materials” – Section No. 6: Development of integrated processing technology for complex polymetallic ores from the Shalkiya and Zhairem deposits.
Ongoing Laboratory Projects
- Research Agreement No. 6 dated 12.2024 – “Enrichment of technological waste from the Kentau processing plant.” Client: RAMS Mining LLP
- Research Agreement No. 18/2024 dated 01.07.2024 – “Study of the possibility of extracting lithium, molybdenum, and tungsten from various ore products, concentrates, resin, and solutions.” Client: Altyn Group Qazaqstan LLP.
- Research Agreement No. 18/2024 dated 15.01.2024 to 31.07.2025 – “Development of technology and market research for smelting ferronickel from aluminosilicate waste resulting from the processing of spent vanadium catalysts at Balausa Company LLP.” Client: Balausa Company LLP.
- Project under GF: Project AP23489340 – “Development of integrated processing technology for vanadium-containing quartzites from the Karatau region with production of ferroalloys”.
- “Development of fundamentally new technologies for the integrated processing of polymetallic raw materials” – Section No. 6: Development of integrated processing technology for complex polymetallic ores from the Shalkiya and Zhairem deposits.
Technical Equipment
- Grinder – 1 unit
- Ball mill – 2 units
- Small laboratory flotation machine – 2 units
- Large laboratory flotation machine – 1 unit
- Semi-industrial flotation machine – 2 units
- Industrial flotation machine – 1 unit
- Old model polishing machine – 1 unit
- New model polishing machine – 1 unit
- Photomicroscope – 1 unit
- Small jaw crusher – 1 unit
- Sample divider – 1 unit
- Small electronic scales – 1 unit
- pH meter – 1 unit
- Thermo-Calc software
- Knelson centrifugal concentrator – 1 unit
Contact Information
+7-727-2590070 (вн.131)
Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty, st. Zhandosova, 67
+7-707-1131731
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