In October 2025, Institute TOMS in cooperation with FINGRI company successfully commissioned a pilot vertical mill for fine grinding testworks.
Institute TOMS acted as a silver sponsor of the 21st MINEX Mining and Exploration Forum that took place in Moscow on 8-9 October, 2025.
Moscow International Mineral Processing Congress (MIMPC-2025) brought together leading specialists in the field of solid mineral processing, researchers, equipment and reagent manufacturers to share their experience, discuss issues and possible solutions.
Institute TOMS took part in the international scientific symposium Miner’s Week 2025 held by MISIS University, February 3–7. The specialists of Mining audit and consulting department delivered a report on advanced approaches to create geometallurgical block models and assess process variability of ores.
Institute TOMS was assessed and passed as consistent with the criteria of the national accreditation system.
Analytical chemistry
Institute TOMS is accredited according to the Russian national standard GOST R, the international standard ISO/IEC 17025-2019 and uses methods developed with due allowance for requirements of international and Russian systems of mineral resources evaluation. The analytical research results meet demands of the Russian State Committee for Reserves. Institute TOMS participates in the international laboratory proficiency testing (Geostats Round Robin, Austraila).
The laboratory has at its disposal advanced equipment and assay procedures:
- a high-rate complex for crushing, size reducing, and pulverizing samples (New Zealand, Russia);
- fusion and cupellation furnaces for fire assays (Russia, Australia);
- precision weighing scales (Germany);
- inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy (IPC-OES) for multi-element analysis (Australia);
- atomic absorption spectrometers to determine contents of precious and other base metals as well as various impurities (Australia, Russia, USA);
- scanning spectrophotometer (Australia) and equipment complex for conventional chemical analysis (Russia, USA);
- sulphur and carbon analyzers (Russia, USA);
- laser analyzers to determine particle size distribution of samples (UK);
- procedures to determine gold grade in the samples containing coarse free metal (Canada, Russia);
- a laboratory system for acid decomposition of samples (USA); and
- a microwave system for autoclave decomposition of samples (Italy).
