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Description: 
This institute is engaged in research on mine-survey equipment and 
the development of various electromechanical devices. This institute is 
considered as a highly specialized research and design facility. Surveying 
instruments are apparently the main and only concern to which any effort is 
devoted. Compasses, both magnetic and gyro, are designed for accuracy and 
stability. There is also some effort devoted to the design of other instru- 
ments, such as leveling instruments, phototachometers, and geodimeters. 
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Name: All-Union Scientific-Research Mining-Metallurgical Institute of 
Nonferrous Metals 
(Vsesoyuznyy nauchno-issledovatel'’skiy gorno-metallurgicheskiy 
institut tsvetnykh metallov--VNIITsvetmet) 
Address: Ust'-Kamenogorsk 
Director: A. P. Snurnikov (1961) 
Deputy Director: -- 
Administrative Affiliation: -- 
Selected Staff Members: 
L. S. Getskin 
S. L. Lofin 
I. I. Kershanskiy 
B. S. Khristoforov 
Yu. Kiselev 
V. Lt. Lysenko 
T. I. Makarov, Head of Laboratory of Rare Metals 
Ye. V. Margulis 
V. I. Plotnikov 
Ye. S. Pronina 
A. I. Safronov 
V. P. Savrayev 
M. G. Sayun 
A. P. Sychev 
P. P. Tsyb, Candidate 
Description: 
This institute has investigated the commercial extraction or separ- 
ation of 15 metals. Rare-earth elements have been separated by exchange 
resins; and indium has been extracted from dust from lead plants; gallium, by 
electrolysis; and zinc, from silver crust. Studies on the recovery of metals 
from waste products of metallurgical processes also are made. 
