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Landfill Operations Set to Continue at the Former Vereinigte Ville Opencast Lignite Mine
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…
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Basic Principles of Explosion Protection
While explosions are fortunately quite rare, if they do happen the consequences are usually serious – explosions are among the five most frequent causes of fatal accidents. It is therefore extremely important to prevent their occurrence and, if that is not possible, at least to limit their impact and contain…
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Hard Coal 2021
Events during the year 2021 illustrate very clearly that supply security is and will remain one of the most important topics of the energy transition. The penultimate act in the nuclear power exit in Germany, the shutdown of 4 GW of power plant capacity, points to the importance of the…
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Raw Materials, Future, Environmental Issues
The US investment bank Goldman Sachs and companies such as Bloomberg are optimistic about the further development of the global economy despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. According to the annual outlook presented on 12th January 2021 during the “Global Strategy Conference”, Goldman Sachs expects global economic output in the current…
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Cutter Mining – A Sustainable Technology for Mining Small Vertical Ore Bodies and Veins
Economic and at the same time environmentally acceptable mining of small vertical ore bodies and veins to great depths has always been a challenge for miners. The Bauer cutter system, widely used in civil engineering, has been further developed for applications in exploration and mining, to a sustainable system for…
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Earnings Opportunities in Mining from CO2 Storage
The following article explains how the CO2Â levy is administrated in Germany and how the billions of euros that are accruing can also be used to improve the economic viability of mining projects at home and abroad. These opportunities are explained using example cases from mining practice. Author/Autor: Hans-Werner Kummerow, Managing…
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advangeo® Software and its Application in the Mining Sector
The availability of geo-spatial data and the presence of promising exploration targets are of key importance for mining sector investment decisions. Together with the legal, political and economic framework, they determine the success of national economies in mining sector development. In this environment, Beak Consultants GmbH, Freiberg/Germany, developed its advangeo®…
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Smart Technology for Smart Mining – Opportunities for the German Mining Supply Industry
So many texts, including “smart” ones, have been and continue to be published about technology and mining that one is tempted to say that everything has already been said. But the many different contexts in which the term “smart” appears call for closer consideration: What it is understood to mean,…
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Hyperspectral Sensing to Boost AMD Monitoring in Post-Mining Scenery
The evolving hyperspectral sensors have become a big ally for a large range of applications in remote sensing for the monitoring of a variety of earth ecosystems and processes (natural and anthropogenic). The processes occurring within the mining life cycle are not an exception. Hyperspectral sensors have been widely used…
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Mine Rescue Services in Germany after the End of Hard Coal Mining
With the decline in domestic hard coal production and its termination at the end of 2018, and the subsequent transition to post-mining, the number of mine rescuers in this mining branch has dropped from almost 1,000 around ten years ago to fewer than 300 in 2020. In the German non-coal…
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