Head of Laboratory
Shayakhmetova Roza Abdrakhmanovna, Candidate of Technical Sciences
About the Laboratory
The laboratory’s activities are defined by the Center’s programs and approved thematic plans aimed at developing and implementing advanced technologies for mineral raw material processing, creating new materials, and enhancing scientific potential.
Main Research Objectives and Directions
Development of processing technologies for Karatau black shales (Balasauskandyk and Kurumsak deposits) with extraction of vanadium and rare earth metals. The result was the creation of a technological regulation for constructing a pilot industrial site with a capacity of 15,000 tons/year of Balasauskandyk ore (2008–2014).
Development and testing of technology for extracting rare and rare-earth elements from weathering crusts of the Kundybai deposit (2011–2014).
Processing of chrysotile-asbestos technogenic raw materials to obtain commercial magnesium products (bishofite and carnallite) (2015–2020).
The technology successfully passed pilot-industrial testing and was implemented at JSC "Kostanay Minerals". Within the framework of the commercialization project of JSC "Science Fund", industrial production was organized (commissioning act dated 11.12.2020).
Development of promising titanium alloys with high strength and processability, alloyed with rare metals (2015–2024).
Creation of new composite materials with high performance properties based on rare and rare-earth elements (2021–2023).
Comprehensive processing of oxidized magnesia-ferruginous nickel ores of Kazakhstan using hydrometallurgical methods (2023–2026).
Training and advanced education of scientific personnel (Master’s, PhD, postgraduate programs). Scientific and publishing activities — participation in international and national symposia, conferences, exhibitions; publication of articles; patent applications; publishing of scientific works.
Cooperation with scientific, industrial, and governmental organizations on implementation of the laboratory’s research projects.
Research under contracts with JSC “Ust-Kamenogorsk Titanium-Magnesium Plant,” including testing of developed methods and pilot-industrial studies on the reduction smelting of Kazakhstani ilmenite concentrates, stabilization of titanium tetrachloride quality during chlorination of titanium raw materials with increased impurities, increasing anthracite content in the charge, improving magnesium metal quality (2002–2011); production of titanium ingots (2014) and processing of titanium sponge blocks (2020–2023).
Contact Information
| Address | Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty, Zhandosov St., 67 |
| Phone | +7 (727) 259-00-70 (int. 131) +7 (705) 808 28 06 |
