Valentine Alekseevich Chanturiya (1938, Moscow, Russia): Professor, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Academician of Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), main research assistant of N.V. Melnikov's Institute of Comprehensive Exploitation of Mineral Resources Russian Academy of Sciences (ICEMR RAS), Chairman of Scientific council of Russian Academy of Sciences for problems on mineral processing, Chairman of Council on awarding doctor’s degree with specialty in mineral processing, Member of International Advisory Committee of International Mineral Processing Congress. VA Chanturiya is the chief of the leading Scientific School of Russia “Physico-chemical methods of components separation in mineral processing”. VA Chanturiya is prominent scientist in the field of mineral processing, the author of more than 500 scientific works, including 15 monographs, 40 Inventions Patents. The main trend in his scientific activities is connected with the theory of mineral component separation and the creation of highly efficient and ecologically harmless technologies for complex processing of refractory ores.