Fachartikel 02_2023

The exploration of space has fascinated humankind for decades. Along with this, establishing a colony on other celestial bodies, such as the moon or Mars, has gained increasing interest. For building such a colony, the use of extraterrestrial raw materials is of great importance. In order to make these raw materials usable, just as in terrestrial processes, the first tasks ...

LiquidEarth is a cloud-based software solution for geological exploration projects and mining that bridges the gap between field and office work. It saves geological data to the cloud, visualizes it, and enables all parties involved in a project to collaborate easily, quickly and remotely. They can view, interpret and adjust 3D geodata and geological models together with other users in ...

The requirements for the realization of greenfield projects have changed due to the aspiration of society, but also of potential investors, for sustainable raw material extraction. Through emission-free mining technology, the expectations of the industry can be met more and more. In the future, the success and support of greenfield projects will increasingly depend on what sustainability goals are set ...

Salars and salt lakes occur in South America and other arid areas of the World and contain large quantities of lithium brine. The concentration of brine varies across the salars. A good knowledge of the internal structure of the salars is needed to optimize the exploitation and pumping plan. This information is also needed to ensure that brine production is ...

Peru is considered one of the ten richest countries in resources in the world and currently occupies an important place in the production ranking. The country is home to numerous mining companies that are increasingly focused on the innovation of technologies and processes, which has improved the competitiveness of the industry. The objectives in Peruvian mining in this development are ...

As global powers work to secure mineral supply chains for high-capacity battery manufacturing, collaboration with Africa is more important than ever. Germany’s participation in the Minerals Security Partnership (MSP), an alliance of twelve nations and the EU, signals that winning the race to secure battery minerals requires global collaboration. The MSP engages African partners, including the stable, democratic, resource-rich and ...

Rare earths, cobalt, magnesium, lithium: Over 90 % of the metallic raw materials used in Germany were imported last year. A significant part of these imports originated from countries with difficult political situations or monopolies in the exploitation and processing of raw materials. These dependencies have gained even more geopolitical importance against the background of the Russian aggressive war against Ukraine. ...