Month: June 2024
- Industry News 03_2024
The Wirtgen Group with a Trade Show Premiere at MINExpo 2024
A New Cutting Drum Expands the Range of Applications for Surface Miners in Hard Rock and Stone Wirtgen Surface Miners and Cross Application Miners are deployed around the world in open-cast mining operations and on infrastructure projects. Cutting drums are the core element of the machines. At MINExpo 2024, from…
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BEUMER Group extends its operations in South America
BEUMER Group has extended its presence in South America with the integration of the former FAM operations in Brazil, Peru and Chile. The move follows the acquisition of FAM Minerals & Mining GmbH in 2022. Now known as BEUMER Group South America, the former FAM operations have become an integral…
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Andrada Mining chooses TOMRA XRT sensor-based sorting technology for the tin plant at its flagship Uis Mine
Andrada Mining has purchased TOMRA XRT sorters as part of its expansion plans at the flagship Uis Mine in Namibia. The sorters feature TOMRA’s latest innovation launched earlier this year at the Mining Indaba exhibition: the groundbreaking OBTAIN™ software that leverages Deep Learning to bring single-particle precision to high-throughput particle…
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Selective extraction as an alternative to drilling and blasting
In a quarry in Louisville, Nebraska/USA, a Wirtgen Surface Miner 280 SM(i) is being used for the layer-by-layer and particularly environmentally friendly extraction of limestone from previously undeveloped reserves. Limestone for the production of cement has been quarried here in Louisville since 1929. The extraction of the material in the…
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STEAG calls for fair remuneration for reserve power plants
In 2022, STEAG GmbH, Essen/Germany, brought around 2.5 GW of additional power plant capacity back onto the market. Of all the power plant operators, this was the biggest contribution to ensuring security of supply in Germany during the recent energy crisis. These plants are now being withdrawn from the market,…
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STEAG applies for decommissioning of Herne 4 power plant
Hard coal-fired power generation has been a tradition in Herne/Germany since the 1960s. Back then, the first power plant unit, Herne 1, went into operation. STEAG GmbH, Essen/Germany, continued this tradition with the commissioning of unit Herne 4 in 1989 – and continues to do so today. The plant, with…
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Iqony Fernwärme and RWE sign new heat supply contract
Iqony Fernwärme GmbH, Essen/Germany, and RWE AG, Essen/Germany, have extended their existing contract for the supply of heat from RWE’s Essen-Karnap waste-to-energy plant to Iqony’s district heating network. The new contract will run from 1st January 2025 to 31st December 2036. The waste-to-energy plant in Essen-Karnap has a heat output…
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Reform of Mining Law − EU Critical Raw Materials Act − Transformation
The 5th Colloquium on raw materials, environmental and climate protection (Kolloquium zu Rohstoff-, Umwelt- und Klimaschutzfragen – KRUK) took place online on 22nd January 2024 with Prof. Walter Frenz, Teaching and Research Area of Mining and Environmental Law (BUR) and Prof. Axel Preuße, Institute for Marrow Sheath, Mining Damage Science…
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Digitalisation, automation, electrification
The industry emphasised its innovative spirit at the 11th colloquium “Conveying Technology in Mining”, which has been held at Clausthal University of Technology, Clausthal-Zellerfeld/Germany, for two decades. The global demand for raw materials is increasing – also due to numerous future technologies. The mining industry is therefore constantly on the…
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VIK concerned about the expected decommissioning of further power generation capacities
The Association of the Industrial Power Industry (VIK), Berlin/Germany, is very concerned about the announced further closures of coal-fired power plant units on a considerable scale. Various power plant units in North Rhine-Westphalia and Lusatia were expected to be shut down at the end of March 2024 when the Replacement…
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