On 18 and 19 June 2015 the Kongress Palais in Kassel will play host to the 13th Mining Forum and more than 300 key decision makers, experts and specialists from the mining and raw materials industries are expected to be there. This year’s Forum will also target an international audience for the first time. Coal, salt and mineral ore: with ...

In January 2015 after proper preparation, the network mining has been established. In time for the conditional breakaway of the domestic coal market as customers in 2018 and taking into account the increasingly difficult prospects for opencast lignite mines, in agreement with the North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of Economic Affairs, appropriate measures have to be taken. By co-working with partners such ...

In cooperation with the Ministry of Economy of Saskatchewan the Competence Centre for Mining & Mineral Resources within the Canadian German Chamber is organizing a German delegation to the 7th Annual Saskatchewan Mining Supply Chain Forum in Saskatoon which will take place from April 13 – 16, 2015 in Saskatoon. Participants will get to know procurement departments from various mining ...

Open pit mining and underground solutions provider, Tenova TAKRAF, has completed the supply and installation of a complete Bucket Wheel Excavator (BWE) system for Zhahanaoer Open Pit Mine in Inner Mongolia, China. The system, which features the largest Bucket Wheel Excavator-Conveyor-Spreader-combination of its kind in Asia, was inaugurated in late November 2014, attended by representatives of the client, CPI Mongdong ...

Environment-friendly community heating from the nearby STEAG New Energies biomass-fuelled thermal power station, which has already been supplying heat to the Mügeln district of Heidenau, is to be extended to include Heidenau South and the existing circuit is being enlarged for this purpose. By the end of 2015 some 4,500 households will be connected into the supply system. The project ...

The expansion of energy storage technology is a key factor for the success of the energy transition process. In early January 2015 Dr Wolfgang Benesch, Head of Research and Development at STEAG GmbH, presented a new research project with STEAG involvement: the development team at STEAG’s Lünen power plant is to work with international partners on the further development of ...

In the 1980s and 1990s the mine shaft here used to take the miners of Ewald Fortsetzung colliery in Oer-Erkenschwick down to their place of work. By the time the new millennium came the shaft was no longer needed and as a result it is to be permanently filled in: Haard Shaft in Datteln-Ahsen will be transformed into the Haard ...

RAG will be transferring its headquarters to Essen in the summer of 2017. The company will be moving on to the UNESCO-designated Zollverein World Heritage Site. For RAG this will mean a return to the city where it was first established as Ruhrkohle AG in 1968 and a new home at what was once the most modern coal mine in ...