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Pöhla Ore Mine of Saxony Minerals & Exploration AG: Planning Status – Challenges – Preparatory Work
Saxony Minerals & Exploration AG (SME AG), Halsbrücke/Germany, plans to put the Pöhla-Globenstein polymetallic skarn deposit, located within the Pöhla SME permit field, into use. The special feature is to plan, construct and commission a mine from scratch. In the specific case of the Pöhla ore mine, the main challenges…
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Status of the KSL Project in Lusatia
KSL Kupferschiefer Lausitz GmbH, Spremberg, was founded in 2007 as a Germany based subsidiary of MINERA S.A. and since then has been preparing the Spremberg copper deposit for mining. Since 2008 new data have been collected about the deposit which were discovered and partly explored since the 1960’s. This includes…
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The Fluorspar Project Gehren in the Association of the Fluorchemie Gruppe
Fluorite, also called fluorspar within the mining community, is an industrial mineral that is unknown to many, but plays an important role in many applications today. As the main natural occurring fluorine containing minerals it is part of the 30 critical materials of the EU that are still heavily relying…
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Planning for Mining Requirements
Mining law is explicitly linked to spatial planning law in section 48(2) second sentence BBergG (BBergG – Federal Mining Act), and the latter is of major significance for operating plan approvals under mining law. The INSTRO reform report calls for greater consideration of spatial planning concerns – rightly so? This…
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Low Carbon – High Damage? Renewable Energies and Rare Earth Elements
Achieving the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement limiting the global temperature increase to 1.5 °C will require massive investment in renewable energy. The transition to a decarbonized energy system will lead to a huge increase in demand for minerals, especially metals, rare earth elements (REE) and lithium, making the…
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Emergency Stop or Emergency Off? – That is the Question!
The red mushroom button on a yellow background is an important safety element on machines and mechanical equipment. In many places, the so-called emergency command device is labelled emergency off, although it is actually an emergency stop. But why is that? This article is a reprint from the BG RCI…
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“You See the Issues that Are Important”
In 2017, the gypsum plant Uehrde, Rump und Salzmann GmbH & Co. KG, Osterode am Harz/Germany, carried out the risk assessment of mental stress for the first time. In 2022, the assessment was repeated. In the interview with Kristin Kramer, Dr. Ulla Nagel GmbH, Dresden/Germany, and Bernhard Kirchner, German Social…
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Mining in Space – Excavation of Raw Materials on Other Celestial Bodies
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…
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LiquidEarth: At the Desk and yet on Site
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…
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The Introduction of Battery-Electric Mining Equipment – Opportunities and Risks
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…
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