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News in Brief 01_2023

Board of trustees reorganized at the RAG-Stiftung

The Board of Trustees of the RAG-Stiftung, Essen/Germany, which has five ex officio members and eight additional members, met on 28th November 2022 in Berlin and elected Armin Laschet as its Chairman from among the additional trustees in accordance with the foundation’s statutes. Michael Vassiliadis remains Deputy Chairman. Prior to the meeting of the Board of Trustees, Thomas Kufen and ...

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RAG investigates cause of contaminated groundwater around Prosper II

Currently, the final operating plan procedure for the termination of the mining supervision for the former Proper II shaft (Figure 1) of the former Prosper-Haniel mine in Bottrop/Germany is underway. Within the procedure, an “orienting hazard assessment” was carried out. The expert recommends prohibiting groundwater extraction there due to the sometimes significant groundwater contamination in some areas. The city of ...

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Ewald Woste new Chairman of the STEAG GmbH Supervisory Board

STEAG GmbH’s Supervisory Board has a new Chairman: Ewald Woste, an experienced and accomplished industry expert who has worked in the energy sector for 30 years, was unanimously elected on 8th December 2022 by the 20 members of the board. Woste will take up the post in a landmark phase for the energy company: Following the division of the STEAG ...

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Mining equipment secures Germany as a high-tech location

The mining industry is doing well at the moment, benefiting from a high order backlog. In 2021, the manufacturers of technology for the extraction of raw materials achieved a total turnover of 3.18 bn € in Germany as a production location. From January to September 2022, turnover of 3.75 bn € was 18 % higher than in the same period of the ...

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A safe place for hazardous waste for 50 years

Hazardous waste has been stored in part of the Wintershall potash mine in the Werra region of eastern Hesse/Germany since 1972. The Herfa-Neurode underground waste disposal site, which today belongs to the K+S Werra Verbundwerk, is the longest-serving and largest of its kind in the world, setting standards in safe storage to this day (Figure 1). Now, the 50th anniversary of ...

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Lhoist opens first underground limestone mine in North Rhine-Westphalia

“With the experimental mine, we as Lhoist Germany are starting an ambitious experiment for the Lhoist Group in Europe,” explained Thomas Perterer, Managing Director of Lhoist Germany, Wülfrath. For the first time in North Rhine-Westphalia, otherwise inaccessible deposit areas are to be developed on an industrial scale and with the most modern extraction technology. The project is initially planned for ...

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NORI and Allseas lift over 3,000 t of polymetallic nodules to surface

The Metals Company Inc. (TMC), Vancouver/Canada, an explorer of the world’s largest estimated undeveloped source of critical battery metals, announced on 14th November 2022 that its subsidiary NORI and offshore partner Allseas have successfully concluded the first integrated system test in the Clarion Clipperton Zone (CCZ) of the Pacific Ocean since the 1970s, achieving all significant pilot milestones while collecting ...

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OZ Minerals, Boliden and Rio Tinto agree to innovate on solutions to pave the way for lower footprint mines

OZ Minerals, Boliden and Rio Tinto will collaborate to unlock new and innovative technologies for managing tailings, helping the mining industry to further reduce risk while extracting the materials the world needs for the energy transition from what was previously regarded as “waste”. Under the umbrella of the Think & Act Differently (TAD) incubator initiative, OZ Minerals, Boliden and Rio ...

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Senate of the Economy appoints Managing Director of DMT as Senator

Jens-Peter Lux (Figure 1), Managing Director DMT GROUP, Essen, was appointed as a senator in the “Senate of the Economy”. As an association for the common good, the Senate is committed to an ecosocial market economy. It deals with social and economic issues and promotes the exchange between business and politics. The focus is on corporate responsibility, value-based corporate governance ...

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Sun and wind going hand in hand

In Berching-Oening, a Bavarian village located just under 30 km north of Ingolstadt, STEAG Solar Energy Solutions GmbH (SENS), Würzburg/Germany, has built a ground-mounted solar farm with a capacity of 15 MWp for the local Altmühl-Jura Energiegenossenschaft eG (AJE) energy cooperative (Figure 5). The new plant complements an existing wind farm and provides a significant increase in the amount of ...

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