Year: 2026
- News in Brief 2026
Mine water for the heat transition – Fraunhofer IEG successfully drills into a mine at a depth of 120 metres
Former mines could in future make an important contribution to the heating and cooling of residential and commercial buildings. Fraunhofer IEG, Bochum/Germany has now successfully completed four boreholes in a former, now flooded hard coal mine in Bochum as part of the EU PUSH-IT project. Using its mobile drilling rig…
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Martin Engineering launches new urethane conveyor belt sealing portfolio in Europe, Middle East, Africa and India
Martin Engineering, has launched its suite of polyurethane sealing systems for conveyor transfer points in three new continents. With belt sealing innovations that eliminate spillage and fugitive dust when bulk materials transfer onto a moving conveyor, the new portfolio is now available in Europe, Middle East, Africa and the Indian…
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Epiroc advances circularity with drill bit recycling program
Epiroc is advancing a more circular approach to rock drilling tools with its Drill Bit Recycling Program, enabling customers to return end-of-life drill bits so that valuable materials can be recovered and returned to the production cycle. Even after a drill bit has reached end-of-service life, it contains valuable materials.…
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TU Leoben and BPG Join Forces
Turning Mining Legacies into Resource Opportunities: Sustainable raw material recovery, innovative processing technologies, and international research: On 21st October 2026, Technical University of Leoben, Leoben/Austria, and BPG Alternative Minerals Reserves AG, Vienna/Austria, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The long-term partnership aims to combine scientific expertise with industrial experience to…
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Epiroc wins large equipment order for platinum mine in South Africa
Sibanye-Stillwater, one of the world’s leading precious metals mining companies, will use the equipment for platinum mining at the Siphumelele shaft at its Rustenburg operations. The order includes low-profile loaders and utility vehicles, designed for use in mining applications with narrow veins. Sibanye-Stillwater will use the equipment as part of…
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RAISING Survey Report: Who should shape the future of coal regions?
Coal regions in Poland, Czechia and Germany are at different stages of leaving coal behind, but the people who live there want much the same things: good jobs, local benefits they can actually see, transparent spending of public money and a real say in decisions. They also do not want…
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The 2026 Helmuth Burckhardt Prize goes to Sana Mehmandoust from Clausthal University of Technology
The VRB honours the outstanding academic achievements, practice-oriented research and international commitment of a young mining engineer The Association for Raw Materials and Mining (VRB), Berlin/Germany, has awarded this year’s Helmuth Burckhardt Prize to Sana Mehmandoust, M.Sc., from Clausthal University of Technology. The award, worth 7,500 euros, was presented at…
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Fraunhofer IEG and Georg Agricola University of Applied Sciences join forces
Affordable and reliable heat for households, local authorities and businesses: mine water could provide it. Mining regions such as the Ruhr area could thus turn long-term liabilities into long-term benefits. Fraunhofer IEG and the Research Center of Post-Mining (FZN) at Georg Agricola University of Applied Sciences (THGA) aim to further…
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Review // Walter Frenz: Handbook Raw Materials Industry
Walter Frenz: Handbuch Rohstoffwirtschaft – Recht, Ingenieur- und Naturwissenschaften, Nachhaltigkeit, Klimaschutz, Digitalisierung (Handbook Raw Materials Industry – Law, Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sustainability, Climate Protection, Digitalisation Reducing Bureaucracy), 1st edition, Year of publication: 2025, Pages: 1145, Publisher: Erich Schmidt Verlag, Language: German, 978-3-503-24213-9 (E-ISBN), 978-3-503-24212-2 (Print ISBN), DOI: 10.37307/b.978-3-503-23745-6. Once…
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From mining heritage to a future in raw materials: Wismut and SAXORE agree to collaborate in Pöhla
Wismut GmbH and SAXORE Bergbau GmbH intend to collaborate on the planned Tellerhäuser raw materials project in the Ore Mountains in Saxony/Germany. To this end, both companies have signed a memorandum of understanding. The aim is to assess existing mining expertise, experience and infrastructure potential and to utilise these for…
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