At the end of November 2019, the 12th German-Russian Raw Materials Conference took place at the Saint Petersburg Mining University. The key topics of the conference included the new global and ecological tasks of digitalisation, the way to a circular economy through the use of waste as a raw material, and collaboration in climate and sustainability research. Peter von Hartlieb ...

For the third time in succession, the business magazine Capital and the personnel marketing specialists at Ausbildung.de and Territory Embrace have published a study on the “Best Trainers in Germany”. Right at the forefront is the company BEUMER Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG in -Beckum/Germany. The system supplier was able to achieve five out of five possible stars in the ...

To reduce the use of expensive primary fuels like coal and oil in the energy-intensive cement production, operators focus increasingly on alternative fuels and raw materials. BEUMER Group offers tailor-made systems for the entire material flow chain – from receiving and unloading the delivery vehicle to storing, sampling and conveying the materials. For precise and controlled feeding, the system provider ...

Sandvik continues to be a leader in mining automation with the introduction of the mining industry’s first interoperability platform for autonomous underground loaders and trucks: The AutoMine® Access API. Delivering on the promise made earlier this year at Goldcorp’s #DisruptMining event, the AutoMine® Access API specification is now available and is the next step in Sandvik’s continued journey to set ...

Sandvik is preparing to deliver its renewed giant, the Sandvik LH625iE electric loader, to field testing to the Kiruna mine in Northern Sweden. The unit to be tested is the 600th electric loader from Sandvik, and is custom-designed to meet the needs of the Kiruna mine (Figure 2). The giant underground loader, which features a 9.5 m3 bucket and 25,000 ...

Sandvik Mining and Rock Technology presents two years’ worth of upgrades on the remote-controlled DinoTM DC400Ri surface top hammer drill rig for urban areas and other applications calling for excellent mobility. The upgraded rig, renamed Dino™ DC410Ri, offers significant improvements in electrical and mechanical reliability, 15% higher tramming power and a large number of smaller but nonetheless important updates for ...

MINSUR SA is a Peruvian mining company, part of the Breca Group of Companies, that owns and runs the largest underground tin mining operation in the world. Located in San Rafael (Figure 1), in the Eastern Mountain chain of the Andes in Peru at a high altitude between 4,500 to 5,200 m above sea level, the mine contributed about 6 % of ...

The German EU official Michael Hager is new Director for Energy Policy in the EU Commission, Brussels/Belgium. He was recently head of cabinet of the EU Commissioner for Budgets Günter Oettinger.

In October 2019 Philipp Migura succeeded Jürgen Zuchowski as Managing Director of the Society of Metallurgists and Miners (GDMB) and GDMB Verlag GmbH in Clausthal-Zellerfeld/Germany. Jürgen Zuchowski had been in charge since the end of 2005. Over the past few years as Advertising Manager for the three journals World of Metallurgy – ERMETALL, World of Mining – Surface & Underground ...

At its meeting on 10th October 2019, the Supervisory Board of innogy SE, Essen/Germany, elected Johannes Teyssen, Chief Executive Officer of E.ON SE, as its Chairman. Teyssen replaces Erhard Schipporeit, who had stepped down from the Supervisory Board along with the other shareholder representatives following the takeover of innogy by E.ON. The Supervisory Board also resolved on a number of ...