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Successful Mine Rescue in China using Bauer Technology
For 36 days, hundreds of rescue workers fought for the lives of numerous buried miners in a gypsum mine in the Shandong province of eastern China. On 29th January 2016, four of them were eventually saved through a vertical emergency shaft, not least thanks to the drilling rigs from BAUER…
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Mining 4.0: Groundbraking technology for the control of roadheaders improves both safety and productivity underground
Specialist engineers at IBS Industriemaschi-nen-Bergbau-Service GmbH, Bischofs-heim/Germany, have been developing quality roadheaders “Made in Germany” for the mining and tunnelling industries for some 20 years. IBS is part of the Schmitt Werke group of companies. At this year‘s bauma, IBS will be presenting two new and innovative product lines: the…
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MINAX® brings the greatest degree of safety to the deepest tunnels
Codelco, the operator of the underground copper mine El Teniente in Chile, commissioned Geobrugg to provide dynamic steel wire mesh to stabilize the mine tunnels. El Teniente spans more than 3,000 km of underground tunnels. This underground mine, which has the largest known copper deposits in the world, employs almost…
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Information platform CONVERSYS APPLICATION
Kulassek Mining Consulting developed a new information platform suitable for suppliers of underground mining equipment (Figure 1). Doing so provides suppliers who are active in underground mining, selective and efficient access to the world wide mining business. A database was and is built continuously containing detailed general, personal, spatial, technical…
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When joints must not come apart
FLEXCO mechanical connectors: Rivet Hinged System achieves high tensile strength and distributes loads uniformly over the conveyor belt. With the Rivet Hinged mechanical connectors for use in surface and underground mining, rivets penetrate the fabric inlays in the conveyor belt without damaging the fibres. They are fitted from the top…
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Houghton-Fluid HYDROCOR CV 50 DF – operating the shield support at the German Mining Museum Bochum
The German Mining Museum (Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum – DBM) is the most important mining museum in the world and one of the most visited museums in Germany, with around 365,700 visitors per year. In the underground visitors’ mine, the world of coal mining is described in detail and amongst other…
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BEUMER is celebrating an anniversary – 80 years of customised and efficient customer solutions
With innovative system solutions for intra-logistics in conveying and loading technology, palletising and packaging technology as well as sortation and distribution systems, BEUMER has established an excellent position in the world market. These solutions are applied in various industries such as cement, lime and gypsum, agriculture and mining, chemicals, pharmaceuticals,…
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Fibre ropes in mining – wishful thinking or reality?
While fibre ropes have been used as far back as ancient Egyptian times, it was not until the industrialisation of the 19th century that steel ropes first became key to a wide variety of applications. Thanks to its array of important properties such as high stability and breaking force, abrasion…
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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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