Founded six decades ago at the initiative and using the means of the mining industry, the Mining Institute is scientifically, development-research and in a designing sense, the framework of construction, technical-technological and production ascension of the Yugoslavian and Serbian mining in the second half of the XX century. Through hiring of the top scientific and engineering experts, the Mining Institute has become a sort of an engineering school that provided the best researchers, designers, university professors and bearers of the development of the mineral-ore complex of our nation. The contributions of the Mining Institute are not only the successfully realized scientific, development-research, innovative and industrial projects, but the development and application of new mining technologies, testing, laboratory and measurement methods, new mathematical-model approaches in engineering of mining etc.
In this sense the following should be mentioned: development and application of analogue models of mining ventilation networks (1969); Procurement of the digital computer Hewlett Packard 9810 (1973), introduction into regular experimental and engineering procedures of the mathematical-model and simulation methods; Later on the development and application of photo-elastic models in the analysis of the amperage – deformation states of the rocky masses, application of geo-statistics in analysis and designing, the development of the “Sol” package for basin processing and designing of the open pits etc.
