News in Brief 03_2016

For seven days the city of Munich was taken over by the bauma trade fair, during which around 580,000 visitors from 200 countries came to the Messe München exhibition centre between 11th and 17th April
(Figure 1). This is an increase of more than 9 % in comparison with the last bauma in 2013. The top ten visiting countries to Germany were Austria, ...

From 11th to 15th April 2016, the Competence Centre for Mining and Mineral Resources at the Canadian German Chamber of Industry and Commerce Inc., Toronto, hosted a German delegation during the annual Saskatchewan Mining Supply Chain Forum. A group of ten companies – among them Siemens, BASF, Bosch Rexroth and CFT Filter Technic – participated in a week-long program designed ...

On 15th April 1816, the first 14 students began their studies in “mining sciences” at the Bochumer Bergschule (Bochum School of Mining). This central training institute for the coal mining industry gave birth to today’s Technische Hochschule (TH) Georg Agricola. In a ceremony held on 15th April 2016, Hannelore Kraft, Minister-President of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Dr. Werner Müller, ...

Thanks to the grant notification awarded by Dr. Günther Horzetzky, State Secretary in the North Rhine-Westphalia Ministry for Economic Affairs, Energy, Industry, Small Businesses and Trade, to the two towns of Bottrop and Essen and also to RAG Montan Immobilien GmbH, the path has been cleared for the development of a feasibility study for the „Interkommunaler Entwicklungsplan IKEP_Mitte“ project (inter-municipal ...

With the acquisition of 85.37 % of the shares in the district heating company EC Mielec, SFW Energia, a subsidiary of STEAG New Energies GmbH, Saarbrücken, has significantly strengthened its position in the Polish heat market. In the past week, Antoni Slomiany and Wolfgang Ney, both members of the Board of Management at SFW Energia, signed the relevant contracts in Krakow. ...

Lignite can only be extracted from opencast mines if the ground water level is lowered to below the coal seam. This has a strong influence on the region’s water balance. Depending on the chemism from the overburden, the rising ground water after mining in the pit lake may become acidic due to pyrite weathering. Thus ground water remediation projects seek ...

A consortium of Brenk Systemplanung GmbH, DMT GmbH & Co. KG, TÜV NORD EnSys Hannover GmbH & Co. KG and Plejades GmbH – Independent Experts was set up to implement a project (INSC proj.U4.01/12BCD) within the framework of an EU support program for the Ukraine on nuclear safety. The aim is to improve the country’s handling of radioactive waste, the ...

Energy consumption in Germany reached 13,306 PJ or 454.0 mt SKE in 2015, constituting a solid 1 % increase on the previous year. The increase is due primarily to the somewhat colder weather in comparison with the previous year, which was very mild, and the associated increase in the demand for heating, states the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Energiebilanzen (Working Group on Energy Balances) ...

125 Years ago Karl Pateisky was born on 04.16.1891 in Großolbersdorf, district Wagstadt, Sudetenland, which belonged at that time to Austria. From 1902 to 1909 he attended the German state secondary school in Troppau and studied mining afterwards at the Mining University in Leoben from 1909 to 1913. On 26.01.1923 he was promoted to a doctor of Montanistic Sciences and ...