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Sustainable Raw Materials Production
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…
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Mining in Mongolia 2021 – Ten Years after the German-Mongolian Raw Materials Agreement
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.…
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The Development of the Society of Mining Professors (SOMP) to a Global Academic Institution
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…
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Networks and Strategic Partners Strengthen Smart Mining
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…
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Networks in the Mining Supply Industry
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…
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The German Mining Network: International Mineral Resources Competence for German Companies
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…
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EITI – Development of Sustainable Good Governance Concepts for Mining and Resource Extraction Using Global Network Structures
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…
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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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