Fachartikel 01_2018
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Responsible Mining
Mining influences the natural and social environment to a great extent. More than other industries, the mining industry is aware of this impact, especially regarding their historical legacy. Responsible mining is characterized by this awareness and the dealing with the impact. The common definition of sustainable development reflects the combination…
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Mining Has Never Been More Important – So Let’s Mine with Principles
Germany played a leading role in planning for a low-carbon economy, introducing the Energiewende policy five years before the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change. Energiewende helped catalyse the renewable energy market and the growing electrification of economies around the world. Helping the world decarbonise is one important role that…
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Certification of Responsible Mining Practices and Mineral Supply Chains
Fhe term “seal jungle” shapes the debate on sustainability initiatives and their standards in various sectors of the economy, such as agriculture or the textile industry. But what about standard initiatives for mineral raw materials? A German research consortium from 2015 to 2017 has dedicated itself to this topic, including…
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The Hard Coal Mining at IbbenbĂĽrener Mining District in 2018
For almost 500 years, hard coal has been extracted from the IbbenbĂĽren deposit. Started as near-surface mining in the outcrop deposit in many, partly private, small creeks, modern anthracite coal mining is currently taking place in a depth of up to 1,550 m. The technical and economic challenges with the…
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High Yield Potassium Extraction Reducing Impact on Nature (HYPERION) – a Vision into the Future of Global Potassium Extraction and Processing
The global importance of the potassium extraction and processing industry has been significant for over a century and will continue to be in future. Potassium is a vital resource for intensive agricultural land use and as such essential to improve food stock independence and localised food production. For the European…
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Environmental and Community Impacts of Mining
Local impacts of mining are various and can affect the environment, economics, politics and cultural concerns. All together influence the well-being and every-day life of the local people. Among negative impacts of mining, there are also positives, such as economic growth and wealth brought to the region. This article discusses…
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Australia, Leading the Practice in Sustainable Mining
Which, at first impression, the notion of sustainable mining seems to be a paradox due to a limited endowment of minerals, Australia’s mining sector, shines bright to illuminate how mining contributes to sustainable futures. When we think of something possessing sustainable characteristics, we think of something that will continue forever.…
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Mining-Induced Generation of Submicron Particles and their Application in Rockburst Hazard Assessment
Researches aimed at gaining an insight into the processes of deformation and failure of materials on a submicron scale that have become of increasingly higher priority in recent years. Destruction of rocks is the integral part of mineral mining processes and directly connected with the generation of submicron size particles…
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