Fachartikel 2018

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 the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources (BGR), Hanover. ...

For almost 500 years, hard coal has been extracted from the Ibbenbüren 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 increasing depth and the economic conditions cannot be compared to ...

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 Union (EU), the survival of the industry is crucial to ...

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 both, positive and negative effects of mining businesses. The information ...

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. Mining as a practice or activity on any given deposit ...

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 at any stage of production. Generation of submicron particles during ...