Fachartikel 2024
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Innomotics a New/Old Player on the Global Market – Redefining Reliable Motion for a Better Tomorrow
The industrial ecosystem is currently undergoing major changes. Global drifts in the markets, new advanced technologies, new market requirements, but also the ever-increasing demand for higher efficiency and sustainability are moving all segments of industry. In order to be able to accompany this change as a partner, the Large Drive…
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The Geokompetenzzentrum Freiberg e.V. (GKZ) – a European Mining Network
The Geokompetenzzentrum Freiberg e.V. (GKZ), Freiberg/Germany, unites industry, universities, specialist authorities and local authorities as a network along the entire value chain of mineral raw materials and the development of conventional and renewable energies in the sense of a circular economy. The association focusses on research and development (R&D), training…
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Slurry Transport System of the ROBOMINERS Prototype
The increasing need of raw materials necessitates the exploitation of new deposits, potentially leading to (very) deep underground mines. With the help of fully automated machines and/or autonomous robots it is aimed to open difficult to access deposits or re-open abandoned mines. In the past four years, the consortium of…
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Framework Conditions for Automated Milling Wheel Replacement under Deep Sea Conditions
As part of the „Deep Sea Sampling“ research project, a trench cutter adapted for the extraction of marine massive sulphide ores shall be lowered from a ship into the deep sea and positioned and aligned on the seabed with the help of a landing unit (1). Once there, the system…
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Surface Blast Vibrations from Underground Shotfiring at Moderate Depths
The Heilbronn rock salt mine, which is owned by Südwestdeutsche Salzwerke AG, Heilbronn/Germany, has already carried out several trials aimed at reducing the impact of blast shocks occurring at ground level. Salt extraction is carried out at a moderate depth of around 200 m and targets the shelly limestone formations…
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Hose Physics in the Fire Service: An Update Using the Gollmer & Hummel Titan X-Treme as an Example
Fire hoses have been an elementary component of fire-fighting equipment since ancient times. The properties of the hoses have been improved through constant further development in production. Milestones were the development of hose lines made of canvas in the 17th century, the first rubberised hoses in 1865 and the introduction…
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Change-Management in the Mining-Life-Cycle Needs Trust!
Trust is a valuable asset that must be built and maintained in scientific and technical projects. Especially in projects of the mining life cycle, which are due to the change of the social perception towards a circular value chain, trust is under special observation and has to be built up…
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Rock Mechanical Issues of the Planned Opencast Mining Lakes
After the end of lignite mining in the Rhenish mining area, the remaining volume of the three existing opencast mines will be filled with water. The creation of opencast mining lakes on a scale that has not yet been achieved anywhere in the world represents a complex task for the…
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WISSYM 2023
Under the motto “Rethinking rehabilitation mining – Innovative approaches on the road to sustainability”, the Wismut GmbH, Chemnitz/Germany, the Association of Mining, Geology and Environment (VBGU), Berlin/Germany, and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna/Austria, organized the 5th International Mining Symposium WISSYM 2023 from 25th to 28th September 2023. In…
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Social Acceptance of Mining and Remediation Projects – the Role of Associations/the VBGU
Awareness of raw materials and the acceptance of mining, remediation and industrial projects has become a key factor for society in Germany. For this reason, increased attention must be paid to this social acceptance. This concerns, among other things, the extraction of raw materials from near-surface raw materials, underground mining…
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