- Mar- 2015 -2 March
Energie.Agentur.NRW founds new “Network Mining”
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…
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German Delegation at the 7th Saskatchewan Mining Supply Chain Forum
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.…
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Asia’s largest Bucket Wheel Excavator System in Operation: Success for Tenova TAKRAF’s BWE System at Zhahanaoer Mine in China
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…
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‚Green heat‘ for Heidenau
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…
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New storage project at STEAG’s Lünen power plant
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…
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Former mining land restored to nature
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:…
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RAG to manage the post-mining era from a new base on the World Heritage Site
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…
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