The conference was attended by a number of Ukrainian universities (Lviv, Odesa, Kharkiv Technical Universities), the Department of Earth Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the State Geological Survey of Ukraine, the Ukrainian State Geological Prospecting Institute, the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Association of Geologists, Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov, Institute of Experimental Mineralogy at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Geology at Kolsky Science Center at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ukrainian Geographical Society, Nadra Concern.