A total of 70 leading industry representatives – managing directors, sales directors, association representatives and representatives of IGBCE and the NRW mining authority – met on 26th September 2019 at the former Zeche Zollern (colliery) in Dortmund/Germany for the fifth annual conference of the Mining Industry Network of the EnergieAgentur.NRW, Düsseldorf/Germany (Figure 1). It was also an opportunity to examine ...

The German Mining Network (GMN) announces that the German-Mongolian Business Association (DMUV) shall assist it as a new partner. The DMUV is an amalgamation of German and Mongolian companies with a German connection founded in 1995 in Ulaanbaatar/Mongolia. Since 2009 the association has been a registered association (NGO) and is represented in Mongolia with a permanent office. The office supports ...

In 2012, all special mining activities of the former Deilmann-Haniel International were restructured and bundled under the roof of the Redpath Group based in North Bay, Ontario/Canada. As a result, Deilmann-Haniel became a 100 % subsidiary of Redpath Mining Inc. which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of ATON GmbH based in Munich/Germany. Since 2012, the affiliation to the Redpath Group was documented ...

At the end of May 2019 the exploratory shaft of Saxony Minerals & Exploration AG (SME), Halsbrücke/Germany, above Pöhla, reached the tungsten deposits 175 m deep. A horizontal tunnel is currently being dug in order to mine even more ore from deposits. Since the beginning of September the pilot system for processing the ore mined from the shaft is now ...

The global technology group Voith GmbH & Co. KGaA, Heidenheim/Germany, is planning a comprehensive package of measures for its Voith Turbo division in order to secure the competitiveness and sustainability of the division over the long term. The focus is on streamlining the production base in Germany. The aim is to create central, higher-performing locations where essential parts of production ...

Vista Gold Corporation owns the Mt. Todd project in Australia, which was acquired in 2006 and is one of the country’s biggest undeveloped gold resource. The project, briefly operated in the 1990s, is known for having hard ore (Figure 1). This, and the fact that the project was operated previously, presented particular challenges for Vista Gold. “We had a desire ...

Stornoway Diamonds is a leading Canadian diamond exploration and producing company. It owns and operates the Renard Mine (Figure 1), in commercial production operation since 2017. It is the first diamond mine in Québec and one of six in Canada. Renard Mine started with an open-pit mine and subsequently opened an underground mine. The conditions of the mine presented Stornoway ...

Lucara Diamond Corporation owns the Karowe diamond mine in Botswana, which has been in production since 2012. The mine is recognised as one the foremost producers of very large, high-quality Type IIA diamonds in excess of 10.8 carats. Historic recoveries include the 1,109 carat Lesedi La Rona – the second-largest gem quality diamond ever found – and the 813 carat ...

On 13th August 2019, Kerstin Andreae was appointed by the Chair of the Bundesverband der Energie- und Wasserwirtschaft e. V. (BDEW), Berlin/Germany, to become the new Chair of the Executive Management Board. The economics graduate will take over as Chair of the sector association on 1st November 2019. Andreae is currently the economic spokesperson of the German Federal BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN ...

At the annual conference on 5th July, the Chairman of the DFK – Verband für Fach- und Führungskräfte e.V., Essen/Germany, Thomas Goldschmidt, announced his retirement after many years‘ service. His successor is Michael Krekels.