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DMT to assist in deposit evaluation in Kazakhstan
At this year’s MINEX Central Asia fair, held in Kazakhstan in April, the German mining consulting company DMT GmbH & Co. KG, Essen/Germany, sealed a cooperation agreement with Kazakhstan’s national geological exploration company Kazgeology. The aim of the collaboration is to develop the evaluation of mineral deposits in Kazakhstan to…
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Expomin 2016: German technology for optimising processes and increasing productivity in Chilean mining
More than 50 German companies presented their products in the German Pavilion at Expomin, the largest Chilean mining trade fair, from 25th to 29th April 2016 in Santiago. Chilean Mining Minister Aurora Williams visited the German Pavilion during the opening activities (Figure 1). The competitive advantages of German products, particularly…
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Record demand at bauma 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…
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German Delegation at Saskatchewan Mining Supply Chain Forum 2016
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…
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Technische Hochschule Georg Agricola celebrates anniversary: 200 years of teaching and research in Bochum
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,…
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Grant notification for the “Interkommunaler Entwicklungsplan IKEP_Mitte” project
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…
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STEAG New Energies expands to the Polish district heating market
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…
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The lake does its bit: New method to neutralise flooded opencast mines using the natural water circulation to distribute lime and CO2
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…
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Nuclear Waste Disposal: DMT awarded EU contract in Ukraine
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…
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Slight increase in energy consumption in 2015
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…
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