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New endowed chair for Smart Mining Machinery at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg

An endowed chair for Smart Mining Machinery will be joining the TU Bergaka-demie Freiberg in the summer semester of 2016. The chair will be working in the Faculty for Mechanical, Process and Energy Engineering and will be co-financed by the professional associations for construction/building materials machinery and for mining in…

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Making coal mining more sustainable: TFH Georg Agricola zu Bochum in cooperation with the Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Colombia is one of the world’s largest coal producers. Germany meets around one fifth of its coal needs via imports from Colombia, making it one of the country’s top three suppliers. The Columbian mining industry has come under criticism, however, for poor working conditions and low environmental protection standards. The…

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Helmuth-Burckhardt-Prize 2015

The Helmuth-Burckhardt Prize awarded by the German Raw Materials and Mining Association (VRB), Berlin, was presented in 2015 to two winners: Jasmin Korbmacher MSc and Nicole Prochnau MSc. The two prize winners both studied Raw Materials Engineering at the RWTH Aachen University, graduating with flying colours. The umbrella organisation for…

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„Mining meets Environment“: IV. German-Chilean Forum for Mining and Mineral Resources in Santiago

Mining was one of the main topics of the VI. German-Chilean Business Summit “On the way to industry 4.0”, which took place on the 24th of November 2015 in Santiago. The conference was organized by the German-Chilean Chamber of Commerce and Industry and counted with the federal state North Rhine-Westphalia…

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Integrating Mining and Renewable Energy for Canadian Mining Companies

More than 110 professionals from the renewables and mining sectors attended the full-day conference on “Integrating Mining & Renewable Energy for Canadian Mining Companies: Bridging the Gap to Realize the True Potential – What Renewables can offer the Mining Sector” on December 9, 2015, at the Westin Harbor Castle, in…

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Future market – Coal from North Korea?

North Korea and its population of around 25 million people are considered to be poor despite the country boasting a demonstrable wealth of more than 360 different natural resources. The resources of tungsten, molybdenum, lead, baryte and fluorite that have been discovered and are available in North Korea make it…

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Timely delivery of the new cross-conveyor system for the F60 overburden conveyor bridge in Welzow to Vattenfall

In August 2014, Takraf GmbH received an order from Vattenfall Europe Mining AG for the supply and installation of the new cross-conveyor system for the F60 conveyor bridge in the open cast mine at Welzow-Süd/Brandenburg. The scope of services included the fabrication respectively conversion of hopper cars and chassis as…

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Company profile – Becker & Hüser GmbH

Becker & Hüser GmbH is based on the left bank of the Lower Rhine in Germany near the Dutch border and was founded by Jürgen Becker and Harry Hüser in 1979. Becker & Hüser internationally provides specialist services relating to cable repairs. The company provides advice on which procedures are…

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