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Extended Emergency Rescue in Mining – First Aiders close the Gap between Accident and Emergency Services
If a serious accident occurs underground or in remote industrial plants, rapid medical assistance is often not immediately available. A new training concept for extended first aiders – developed at the TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg/Germany – shows how this gap in care can be closed effectively and with legal certainty.…
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The new CCS Act for Germany
Author: Prof. Dr. jur. Walter Frenz, Maître en Droit Public, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen/Germany The new Carbon Dioxide Storage and Transport Act (KSpTG) paved the way for CO2 storage in Germany. The current coalition agreement of the current German government already outlines key strategic priorities that differ significantly from those of…
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New Possibilities for Mine Surveying Documentation and Visualisation in Historic Mining
Authors: Paulina Loskot, M. Sc., Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jörg Benndorf, Dr.-Ing. Thomas Martienßen, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Institute of Mine Surveying and Geodesy, Freiberg/Germany The availability of novel, compact multi-sensor scanning technologies – particularly those integrating LiDAR and imaging sensors – enables time-efficient and often sufficiently precise acquisition of underground 3D geometries.…
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Development and Implementation of an Innovative Sealing Concept for Smaller Shafts in Ore Mining
Author: Christian Grineisen, M.Sc., Sachtleben Bergbau Verwaltungs-GmbH, Lennestadt/Germany In 2024, as part of exploratory work in the area of near-surface mining at the Meggen mine, a historic ventilation shaft was investigated using drilling techniques. The investigation revealed that the stepped shaft was partially backfilled with loose material in its near-surface…
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Remining of Mine Water Sludge – an Update on Successful Metal Extraction
Authors: Dr. rer. nat. Bastian Reker, Jule Gleba, B.Sc., Georg Agricola University of Applied Sciences, Research Center of Post-Mining, Bochum/Germany, Dr.-Ing. Matic Jovičević-Klug, Dr. Patricia Jovičević-Klug, Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials, Düsseldorf/Germany, Dr.-Ing. Sebastian Westermann, Georg Agricola University of Applied Sciences, Research Center of Post-Mining, Bochum/Germany As part of…
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Geothermal Utilisation of Flooded Underground Mines Based on the Example of a Mine Thermal Energy Storage
Authors: Elke Mugova, Stefan Klein, Dr. Florian Hahn, Fraunhofer Research Institution for Energy Infrastructures and Geotechnologies IEG, Bochum/Germany In recent decades, former mining infrastructure has been perceived primarily as a financial and environmental burden. Geothermal utilisation has so far only been implemented in a few projects. Recently, a paradigm shift…
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Blue Mining – Proactive Mine Planning
Authors: Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Oliver Langefeld, Mareike Schubert, M.Sc., Dr.-Ing. Angela Binder, Yichen Jiang, M.Sc., Clausthal University of Technology, Institute of Geotechnology and Mineral Resources, Department of Mining, Clausthal-Zellerfeld/Germany The Blue Mining approach integrates energy, ergonomics, water and circular economy into a sustainable mining concept. The focus is on energy-efficient mines,…
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VISION ZERO Sustainable Mining 2025 Conference: Responsible Leadership – Sustainable Partnership: Shaping the Future of Mining
From 13th to 15th October 2025, the VISION ZERO conference “SUSTAINABLE MINING 2025” took place at the TU Georg Agricola University in Bochum/Germany. During this time, Bochum became the centre of an international discourse on occupational safety, prevention, sustainability and transformation as well as a meeting place for global responsibility:…
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Sustainable Mine Water Management as a Perpetual Task – Mine Water Management in Hard Coal Post-Mining
With the end of hard coal mining in Germany in 2018, the operational need for underground water management ceased to exist. Since then, RAG Aktiengesellschaft, Essen/Germany, has been pursuing the goal of optimising mine water management in an ecologically and economically sustainable manner. The focus is particularly on protecting the…
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Post-Mining and German Economic Policy
If post-mining in Germany is viewed as a special economic sector, it is, like any other sector, embedded in the respective economic policy framework and measures, but also has specific economic policy concerns arising from its constraints and interests. These are measured here against the current economic policy positions of…
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