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Culturing Innovation in Mines
Technologies already exist to begin addressing some of mining’s biggest problems, but all too often, attempts to innovate yield disappointing results. It is not enough to build great strategies and hire bright people; to fully leverage what technology can offer, mines need to address fundamental issues with culture. This article…
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Sustainable Intelligent Mining Systems (SIMS), one Step Closer to the Mine of the Future
Today, every company involved in raw material extraction strives to work efficiently and effectively. In the article “Smart Mining – Today and Tomorrow” in this issue, smart mining and its implications have already been described and discussed in detail. The central challenge, according to one of the key statements of that article,…
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Potential of Modelica for the Creation of Digital Twins
Digitalization is on path of fast development in all spheres of society. As an outcome the requirements on modeling of systems are increasing. This applies with regard to quantity and quality. In this context the tools for modeling have to be selected. Considering modeling a possible choice is the language…
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DMT – “Digital Mining Transformation” for the Raw Materials Industry
In recent years, the ongoing digitalization of mining has led to continuous changes in the way the raw materials sector explores its resources, carries out mining operations, processes the products and ultimately delivers them to its customers. This article illustrates the Mining 4.0 concept of the DMT GmbH & Co.…
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Data Acquisition for Underground Mining Applications
Automation in all its aspects has been gaining in significance in the extractive industry and decision making in today’s mining sector is based as much on planning activities as on event-driven reactions. This means that machinery and sensor networks are increasingly required to gather data on individual operating modes and…
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Efficient Raw Materials Production with IIoT – Inefficiencies in Mining
Efficient use of the available assets plays an important role for the economic viability of an operation in raw materials production. Nowadays, most planning and investment decisions are still only using experience and test data collected at the start of an operation as decision support. A comprehensive data collection using…
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Optimisation of Ore Milling Processes Using On-line Particle Size Distribution and Solid Content Analysis
The particle size distribution of ground minerals is of decisive importance for downstream processes like flotation, separation, drying or others. In order to optimize process efficiency on one hand and final product quality on the other hand, early control of the grinding or classification stage is essential. The ultrasound-based particle…
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International Mining Remains the Bedrock of our Industry
Given the ongoing corona crisis this is perhaps an appropriate moment to examine what is happening in the overseas mining sector in these uncertain economic times. The German economy continues to require increasing quantities of raw materials, a demand that simply cannot be met from indigenous sources. Moreover, Germany will…
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Vision Zero Cooperation Agreements
At the heart of cooperation agreements between the Social Accident Insurance Institution for the Raw Materials and Chemical Industry (BG RCI), Heidelberg/Germany, and its member companies is the public voluntary commitment to the VISION ZERO prevention strategy. The goal is to secure higher levels of safety and health in the…
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Effective Date for Fibrogenic Mine Dust and Quartz in Mining Operations
The new version of § 13 of the Regulation for the Protection of Health in Mining Operations (GesBergV), which entered into force in October 2019, establishes new measures for underground non-bituminous coal mining operations in the event of fibrogenic mine dust contamination by referencing the Hazardous Substances Regulation and applicable…
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