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VISION ZERO Sustainable Mining 2025 Conference: Responsible Leadership – Sustainable Partnership: Shaping the Future of Mining
From 13th to 15th October 2025, the VISION ZERO conference “SUSTAINABLE MINING 2025” took place at the TU Georg Agricola University in Bochum/Germany. During this time, Bochum became the centre of an international discourse on occupational safety, prevention, sustainability and transformation as well as a meeting place for global responsibility:…
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Sustainable Mine Water Management as a Perpetual Task – Mine Water Management in Hard Coal Post-Mining
With the end of hard coal mining in Germany in 2018, the operational need for underground water management ceased to exist. Since then, RAG Aktiengesellschaft, Essen/Germany, has been pursuing the goal of optimising mine water management in an ecologically and economically sustainable manner. The focus is particularly on protecting the…
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Post-Mining and German Economic Policy
If post-mining in Germany is viewed as a special economic sector, it is, like any other sector, embedded in the respective economic policy framework and measures, but also has specific economic policy concerns arising from its constraints and interests. These are measured here against the current economic policy positions of…
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A Brief Introduction to Standardisation
The German Institute for Standardisation (DIN), Berlin, is the independent platform for standardisation in Germany and worldwide. As a partner for industry, research and society as a whole, DIN plays a major role in helping innovations – also in mining and the raw materials industry – to reach the market in…
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International Standardisation in Mining – Transitions, Challenges and Future Prospects
International standardisation in mining is undergoing profound change. Historically dominated by dimensional standards, the focus today is on safety standards, digitalisation, automation and cyber security. International cooperations between standardisation organisations and interdisciplinary expertise are crucial to addressing complex requirements such as battery safety and AI integration. New EU regulations –…
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International Standardisation for Abandoned Mine Management and Post-Mining: Current Developments
Abandoned (legacy) mines globally impact the perception and reality of mining as a sustainable extractive industry. It is only when mine landforms are safe, stable and non-polluting that they have the potential to provide the foundation for sustainable post-mining land uses including being returned to earlier uses or being used…
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Interaction between Business and Science
The mining sector is characterised by complex ethical challenges in which technological, economic, ecological and social aspects are intertwined. As decision-makers, raw material engineers play a central and responsible role. The project “Ethik im Rohstoffsektor” aims to integrate ethical reflection into engineering education in a sustainable way. International, practice-oriented case…
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Ethics in Mining: Practice Learning for Future Mining Professionals
The mining sector is characterised by complex ethical challenges in which technological, economic, ecological and social aspects are intertwined. As decision-makers, raw material engineers play a central and responsible role. The project “Ethik im Rohstoffsektor” aims to integrate ethical reflection into engineering education in a sustainable way. International, practice-oriented case…
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RWE Climate Liability According to the Higher Regional Court of Hamm Ruling of 28th May 2025
Are energy companies liable for the consequences of CO2Â emissions from coal-fired power generation in this country in distant countries? So is there global climate liability? On 28th May 2025, the Higher Regional Court (OLG) Hamm, Hamm/Germany, issued a spectacular ruling on this issue, ultimately dismissing the lawsuit against RWE AG,…
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Digitalisation in Mining – the Backbone of Smart Energy Management
The 28 member companies of the International Council on Mining and Metals (ICMM) have jointly committed to net zero emissions by 2050. The ICMM includes some of the world’s largest mining companies, such as BHP, Rio Tinto and Anglo American, and represents around one third of the global mining industry…
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