The Economic Department of the Mining Institute is 45 years old from the year of its foundation. The main stages of the department development have been considered in this article. Qualifications and fields of training for future specialists have been defined here. The set of disciplines, skills and knowledge, which all graduators have to posses, has been shown. The general trends of the scientific research of department’s scientists and their contribution to the progressing of the domestic economy have been given in the article.
In the conditions of transition to the market, which requires the development of competitiveness of enterprises in regional and global markets, it is necessary to choose which methods of measurement, control and management to use for enterprises and firms. The result of choosing the best system of indicators should be the highest performance, which is understood as a productivity indicator.
Improvement of methods of accounting and quality control of extracted raw materials is a very urgent problem, because the lack of effective methods of calculation lead to significant systematic errors in planning the volume and quality of production.
One of the important tasks of increasing the efficiency of mining enterprises is to ensure a high degree of homogeneity of the formed ore flows. The paper considers the method of optimization of the charge preparation process at the ore stockpile of PO Sevuralboksitruda. Optimization is performed for a promising two-stage stockpiling scheme, which is proposed to be introduced instead of the existing single-stage scheme.