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Hard coal mining in Germany is history, but the expert knowledge from 150 years should remain. But how can information that is hidden in millions of documents on numerous servers be made efficiently usable? To solve this problem, RAG Aktiengesellschaft, Essen/Germany, relies on technical innovation and artificial intelligence (AI), which unlocks valuable knowledge for employees and makes it easily accessible. ...

Significantly lower air contamination thresholds have not only meant greater responsibility for employers in assessing the potential release of hazardous substances as part of the risk analysis and the health and safety  documentation process but have also introduced higher standards for estimating exposure levels. One problem is that the performance limits of the measurement and analysis equipment make it difficult ...

Is the current Federal Mining Act sufficient to guarantee sustainable raw materials production – or does it need reforming to achieve this? The agreement signed by the parties that make up Germany’s “traffic-light coalition” seeks to align the Act more towards safeguarding sustainable raw materials extraction and maintaining environmental standards – while at the same time making things easier for ...

Mongolia, which is only very sparsely populated with a total of around 3.2 million inhabitants, is one of the ten most resource-rich countries in the world. In the southern part of the country, the Gobi Desert, there are gigantic deposits of copper, silver, gold, coal, fluorspar and other raw materials. Coal, copper and gold are among the most important deposits ...

Eince its founding in 1990, the Society of Mining Professors/Societät der Bergbaukunde (SOMP) has played a critical role in supporting the field of mining engineering and contributing to research, education, transfer and other collaborative activities among its members. SOMP has continued to be the leading international society for mining school professionals, recognized for effective networking; for fostering collaboration and innovation ...

Even against the current backdrop of the dramatic upheavals caused by the war in Ukraine and the concomitant effects that will be felt for a long time to come, one thing is surely clear: in the future, the work of people and companies will once again be marked more by characteristics and features such as social interaction, empathy, creativity and ...

The mining supplier industry constitutes a rather small group within the German mechanical engineering sector. Its members are predominantly medium-sized companies, and the market power of the individual companies when acting alone is low. This and the close ties between them so traditional in the mining sector have prompted them to join forces in various forms and bodies providing them ...

In times of increasing information density, breathtaking acceleration and international pressure to innovate, rapid access to information and business contacts can provide decisive competitive advantages. This is where the German Mining Network (GMN), which was launched in 2016, comes in. Its partners, offerings and operating principles are explained in this article. The network offers German companies in Germany and abroad ...

Society’s interest is focusing more than ever before on international mining and the global extractive industry. On the one hand, there is the wish to secure a reliable supply of raw materials, especially the so-called scarce raw materials for high-tech products and the energy transition; on the other hand, the extraction and provision of raw materials should always be sustainable ...

The now depleted Vereinigte Ville lignite mine south of Cologne/Germany has been used as a landfill facility since the 1970s. Each year the 300 ha site receives some 1.7 Mt of mineral waste of landfill class I, II and III. Approval has now been given for a total disposal volume of around 90 M m3. The facility has a workforce ...