Fachartikel_03_2016

North Rhine-Westphalia can look back at a long tradition of mining and there is even verifiable evidence of mining activities dating back to the 13th century. The economic development of some regions – including the Ruhr, Siegerland, Aachen and the Oberbergish Land – is closely associated with the mining industry. The natural resources of North Rhine-Westphalia have been worked for ...

The subsidised German coal industry will cease to exist on 31.12.2018. The post-mining era will then set in, not just in the coalfields of North Rhine-Westphalia and Saarland, but in many other German mining regions too, where it has already been a reality for some time. The elements and aspects of the post-mining age will mean a permanent weighing-up of ...

RAGAktiengesellschaft, Herne/Germany, owns the last two coal mines in Germany: the mine Prosper-Haniel in Bottrop and the Mine in Ibbenbüren. At the end of 2018 the production of hard coal will be finished. But even then the RAG Aktiengesellschaft remains responsible for the consequences caused by the coal industry. The area of responsibility will include settling of mining damage and ...

The lignite mining area of the Rhineland/Germany is bounded by the three cities of Dusseldorf, Cologne and Aachen. Lignite has been mined in this locality since the 18th century and the three opencast mines currently in operation, namely Inden, Hambach and Garzweiler, produce between 90 and 100 mt of fuel a year. About 85 % of the annual production is used ...

The City of Mostar is located in the South of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the West and in the North of the city, lignite was exploited in underground mining in the suburban municipalities Ilići, Cim, Vihovići and Raštani since the mid of the 19th century. In Vihovići, lignite was also mined in open pit. Since the 1980ies, large parts of ...

The project “Sustainable site development of the mining region Erdenet, Mongolia” was commenced in spring, 2014 by the partners and project sponsors the government of the province of Orkhon and mayor of the city of Erdenet, the management of the Erdenet Mining Corporation (EMC) and the management of the Berlin-based mining consulting company geotec Rohstoffe GmbH. The overall objective of ...

Germany’s domestic lignite output decreased by 0.1 % from 178.2 mt to 178.1 mt between 2014 and 2015. 2015’s extracted lignite had a net calorific value of 54.9 mtce. 159.3 mt, or almost 90 %, of that output were used in utility power plants supplying the general public. This translates into an increase of 0.2 % compared to the previous year. 14.9 mt were used ...