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There was once again considerable interest in IranConMin in 2017: some 20,500 visitors attended the trade fair for mining, construction machinery and construction systems, which took place from 4th to 7th November 2017 in Tehran. Nearly 300 exhibitors from 15 countries showcased their product portfolios on a surface area of 16,000 m2. As a result, the 13th edition of the region’s ...

IMAG GmbH, Munich/Germany, is expanding its involvement in the mining sector. With immediate effect, the subsidiary of Messe München has become an international partner of the MICA mining trade fair (Figure 1) in Algiers/Algeria. To make this official, IMAG and Symbiose Communication Environnement have recently signed a partnership agreement. The next edition of the trade fair will be held in ...

From 19th to 22nd June 2018 the largest industry event that brings together specialists and scientists from 50 countries working in the sphere of development of solid mineral deposits, science and technology, as well as environmental protection and industrial safety will take place in Astana/Kazakhstan – the 25th World Mining Congress (WMC) (Figure 1). Over the years, the WMC has ...

Roughly two years ago, the Essen/Germany based RAG-Stiftung foundation, RAG AG and Evonik Industries AG collaborated with the IG BCE union, Hanover/Germany, to launch the “Glückauf Zukunft!” project, aiming to wind down the German coal mining industry by the end of 2018. The programme acknowledges the industry’s historical achievements while simultaneously setting a course for the era to come. The ...

The RAG site on the Shamrockring is to be converted to a residential and business district over the next few years. Essen-based FAKT AG has acquired the plot and is planning a large amount of development within the existing buildings at the 10 ha site in Herne/Germany. FAKT AG CEO Prof Hubert Schulte-Kemper announced this at a press conference in ...

A lunar landscape of boulders and craters as far as the eye can see – project partners Mingas-Power, ENNI Energie & Umwelt Niederrhein (ENNI) and RAG Montan Immobilien (RMI) have officially brought the Kohlenhuck wind farm on the plateau of the Kohlenhuck mine heap in the north of Moers/Germany online. Mingas-Power, a joint venture between STEAG New Energies and RWE ...

“Flawed, superficial and solely ideologically motivated” is how the DEBRIV association, Berlin/Germany, sees the legal report on the energy transition submitted by the Agora Energiewende thinktank. One particularly problematic aspect of the report is the ease with which Agora skates around constitutionally protected legal positions. In its assessment, DEBRIV lists a number of concrete legal flaws in the report, which ...

The management team of the Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau, Chemie, Energie (IG BCE), Hanover/Germany, reassesses its position following the vote on the managing Executive Committee. In future, the union will turn more of its attention to the challenges of digitalisation. This is reflected in a specific board division, which Francesco Grioli is set to take over. The former Rheinland-Palatinate/Saarland Regional Manager was ...

Der Helmuth Burckhardt-Preis der Vereinigung Rohstoffe und Bergbau (VRB), Berlin, ging in diesem Jahr an den jungen Master of Science (M. Sc.) Kian Will aus Zell (Bild 4). Der Fachspitzenverband des deutschen Bergbaus sprach dem Jungakademiker anlässlich der Mitgliederversammlung am 28. September 2017 in Berlin den Preis zu. Der Burckhardt-Preis wird seit dem Jahr 1971 jährlich für hervorragende Examensleistungen im Rahmen ...

How can the world power itself in the long term? And how can we make sustainable use of raw materials in the future? Experts frequently exchange ideas on these topics at the “Mining, Energy and Raw Materials” conference held by the Deutscher Mark­scheider-Verein (DMV). This year, the conference took place at the Montan­universität Leoben in Austria. Specialists from the TH ...