Russia (1998, 2009)

In 1998 for the Heidelberg Cement Technology Centre – the CBR Company based in Brussels we prepared a geological assessment of the cement raw materials under the title "Ulyanovsk Geological Expertise". The subject of the expert assessment was the seven exploited or as-yet unexploited deposits of limestone and of sialic materials (calcareous mudstones and marlites) of the Cretaceous or the early Tertiary age (Bolsheklyuchishchinskoe, Nagornoe, Gorshichinskoe, Kremenskoe I and II, Shirokiy I and II and Potapika) in the central Volga region. in the surroundings of the city of Novoulyanovsk (Ulyanovsk region). The main work on this contract was represented by the verification of the reserves at their individual locations as a basis for determining the useful life-span of the sources of raw materials for the currently existing cement plant and for making a decision concerning the effectiveness of the investments considered in regard to the modernisation of the technologies and of the transport infrastructure. The purpose was not only to verify the accuracy of the existing calculations of the reserves, but also to obtain a real basis for assessing the usability of the as-yet unmined deposits. The result should be utilised for deciding whether an older type of cement plant located in Novoulyanovsk should be reconstructed and the raw material transported there from as-yet unmined deposits up to 40 km away from the cement plant, or whether rather to build a new modern cement plant closer to those as-yet unmined deposits.

The second commercial project in the Russian Federation was processing a control assessment of the Jasakovo deposit of brick materials in the Trojica municipality (Ryazan region) in 2009. The submitter of the control assessment was the Czech Export Bank, Prague. Its purpose was to assess the results of the geological survey together with the calculation of the reserves from 2008. This assessment was carried out both on the basis of the quality of the work and its sufficiency for the qualified determination of the reserves of brick raw materials at the deposit and in regard to the evidence supporting the quality parameters of the brick materials identified, because the possibility of the production of facing bricks had been considered. The result constituted a basis for decisions about any new investment activities in places in which, in 1962, the extraction of raw brick materials and the production of bricks in the outdated brick factory had terminated.