MAGMA · Research

Research activity

The platform's calculation methods are taken to external review: industry conferences, peer-reviewed publications, a scientific adviser with forty years in the field and a partnership with a specialist university. For a state client this settles the competence question before the technical discussion begins.

Conference

Uranium and Rare Earth Metals

Almaty · 12–15 May 2026

A paper on machine learning in the management of in-situ leaching fields: forecasting the recovery profile, assessing the risk of technological solution migration and handling uncertainty in the hydrogeological model.

Publications

Two articles ready

Peer-reviewed journals

The first covers forecasting of technological solution excursions beyond the design contour from observation well data. The second describes an AI assistant for well field management: the architecture of the language layer over production data and the confirmation loop for control decisions.

Pre-pilot dialogue

Representatives of the Rosatom State Corporation

Nuclear industry

Exchange of materials and alignment on a possible pilot format. A separate track from the operating commercial pilot in in-situ leaching.

University partner

Henan Polytechnic University

Jiaozuo, Henan Province, China · founded 1909

China's first mining university. A memorandum of understanding dated 16 July 2026: a joint research project and co-authorship of publications on digital monitoring and automation of extraction control. The university takes part in developing the platform's calculation core and validates the methodology in use.

Henan Polytechnic University

China's first mining university and our research partner on the platform's calculation core. Joint work covers the calculation architecture, leaching control methods and the approach to machine-learning forecasting models.

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University partner

Henan Polytechnic University

Jiaozuo, Henan Province, China

Founded
1909, as the Jiaozuo Railways and Mines School — the first mining university in China
Ranking
Consistently in the world top 35 for Mining & Mineral Engineering in the ShanghaiRanking GRAS subject ranking
Form of cooperation
Memorandum of understanding dated 16 July 2026: a joint research project, co-authorship of publications, researcher exchange
Calculation architecture
Joint development of the calculation core: site hydrogeological modelling, leaching kinetics, methods of controlling technological solutions
ML approach
Joint work on framing the forecasting problems: real-time solution tracking, analysis of migration beyond the design contour, feature sets and model quality metrics
Methodology validation
External scientific review of the methods the platform calculates with: peer review of the calculation approaches and joint publications on the results

A working relationship

Regular exchange of materials and problem statements between the engineering team and the relevant department: the university is inside the working loop, not signing off on finished work.

Calculation architecture

The calculation core — hydrogeology, kinetics, balance — is discussed and refined jointly before it enters a client's production contour.

Methodology validation

A client gets not only a working calculation but a scientific reference for where the method came from and who reviewed it.

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Scientific adviser

Alexander V. Boytsov

Geologist, forty years in the uranium industry: exploration, resource evaluation, mining, processing.

Position
Adviser to the First Deputy Director General of Techsnabexport
Publications
Co-author of the OECD/IAEA Uranium 2024 report and the WNA Nuclear Fuel Report (September 2025); author of more than 100 scientific papers
International
Deputy Chair of the Joint IAEA–OECD Uranium Group; engaged by the IAEA as an expert on safe uranium mining
Career
Wismut mine · VNIIHT · TVEL · Techsnabexport · ARMZ · Uranium One, Canada — Vice President for Exploration. Graduate of MGRI

Why this matters to a client

The research contour solves three applied problems, and none of them is about reputation.

Verifiable methodology

A calculation that has been published and peer-reviewed cannot be dismissed with "where did this figure come from".

Access to expertise

Hydrogeology and leaching kinetics are domains where a model error costs more than a coding error.

Basis for grant funding

Publications and a university partnership are a formal requirement of most support instruments for industrial IT projects.

Joint research or publication

We are open to joint work on hydrogeological modelling, leaching kinetics and methods of controlling solution migration.