MIKHAIL BURSTEIN,
4975 Clairemont Mesa Blvd., #304
San Diego, CA 92117
USA
Tel. (858) 715 4795 (home), (619) 594 7884 (office)
E-mail: burstein@mail.sdsu.edu,
mikhailburstein@hotmail.com ,
Mikhailb@cpti.bc.ca
PERSONAL
Born 3 April, 1962
PROFILE
Worked since 1983 for engineering companies in flotation of base metal ores (Gintsvetmet) and coal
preparation (IOTT) in Russia, followed by R&D project in flotation theory in Nottingham University
(England). Before joining Cominco Engineering (now known as CPT) as Senior Metallurgical Engineer in
April, 1998, Mikhail held a Senior Process Engineer position with European and Canadian divisions of
Eimco Process, a major American process equipment company, where he was responsible for CIS and
North-East Asian mineral market development and technical sales of process equipment and systems.
He is also an expert on metal industries of the former USSR.
Mikhail is a co-author of Column Flotation book published in Russian, English and Spanish.
EDUCATION
1983
M.Sc. (Hons.) Metallurgical Engineering (Mineral Processing)
Moscow Steel and Alloys Institute (Technical University), Russia
1989
Ph.D., Metallurgical Engineering (Mineral Processing) & Computational Science
Institute of Solid Fuels Preparation, Russia
WORK EXPERIENCE
Present
Director, San Diego State University Student Information Management System
(Relational) and , Education Center on Computational Science and
Engineering. Part-Time faculty (Lecturer) for the Computational Science
Research Center, San Diego, CA
Oracle database design, development, implementation, maintenance and administration
for “Computational Science Resource Community”
Modification and migration of Student Information System based on Oracle 9i and
Oracle Developer 6i. Writing and debugging stored procedures, Forms and Reports.
Teaching of IDS480 (Data Management Systems), IDS180 (Principles of Information
Systems) and CS503 (Scientific Database Techniques) classes.
1998
Senior Metallurgical Engineer, Flotation Technology, Cominco Engineering
Services Ltd.
Flotation column testing, scale-up, proposal presentation for phosphates, copper/nickel,
copper/zinc and other ores. Application of column flotation for coal preparation. Sales and
marketing of column flotation in the CIS countries, Eastern Europe and Middle East.
Experience in report preparation and oral presentation.
1994
Senior Process Engineer, Eimco Process Equipment, Rugby, UK, and Mississauga,
Ontario, Canada
Business development for Eimco in CIS countries and Mongolia. Technical sales of
process equipment for mineral processing, industrial and municipal waste water treatment
and oil refining.
Technical and commercial aspects of proposal preparation for flotation, gravity separation,
heavy-media, dewatering and filtration equipment.
Design and commissioning of industrial flotation column circuits for coal.
Lab and pilot testing of process equipment in base metal, potash and coal industries.
1993
Research Fellow (EXCALIBUR programme), Nottingham University, England
Research of the influence of particle fractal geometry on their flotation response.
Experimental measurements of fractal dimensions (image analysis), contact angle, froth
stability. Participation in international multi-discipline team of scientists
1992
Co-Manager, InfoMine Ltd. (Moscow)
Information and consultancy services in CIS mining and metallurgical industries. Data
analysis and writing in-depth commodity reports and newsletters on base, minor and
precious metals, industrial minerals for Western metal analysts and mining companies.
Marketing of such reports.
1985
Engineer, Senior Research Engineer, Institute of Solid Fuels Preparation (Russia)
Flotation fundamentals; advanced control of flotation and grinding; application of
flotation columns for coal preparation, flotation of antimony ores, copper/zinc and other
ores.
Testing of
systems.
oil/water
separation
technologies,
design
of
wastewater
treatment
Design and commissioning of column flotation plants.
1983
Engineer, Research Institute for Base Metals Industry (Gintsvetmet), Moscow,
Russia
Reagent testing and flowsheet development for Copper/zinc ores selective flotation.
Design of automatic control algorithms for flotation and grinding circuits. Column
flotation theory and control. Analysis of elementary flotation process.
PUBLICATIONS
Book: Column Flotation: Processes, Design, Practice; Gordon & Breach, 1995 (with coauthors), also edition in Spanish (1997) and Russian (1989)
26 papers, mostly on column flotation. Articles for Encyclopedia of Separation Sciences,
Academic Press, 2001. Papers at International Conference on Surface Forces, Moscow,
1993, IMPC (San Francisco, 1995), Column’96 (Montreal).
5 papers and multiple reports on CIS metal industries
COMPUTER SKILLS
Oracle and SQL Server database development.
Working knowledge of Windows application, programming in VB and Fortran.
AFFILIATIONS
Society of Mining Engineers (SME), US
Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy
Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (UK)
Russian Mining Society
LANGUAGES
English, Russian