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Ruhr Area – Strata Control under Challenging Conditions
Main achievements in strata control at German hard coal mines of RAG Aktiengesellschaft, Essen/Germany, are described in this report. Exemplarily it is figured out for the Ruhr area – one of the great hard coal deposits in Europe. After a short review on geological orogenesis the challenges of the deposit…
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Developments in Mine Logistics at RAG
The history of mine logistics at RAG, Essen/Germany, since the company was founded some 50 years ago traces the developments that took place at a wide spread of collieries where multi-seam working was practised on different levels and at different depths. As the overall evolution of this technology is extremely…
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Premiere: Global Lime Industry joins ISSA´s VISION ZERO Initiative as first Industrial Association
Author: Berufsgenossenschaft Rohstoffe und chemische Industrie (BG RCI), Langenhagen The global lime industry is represented by the International Lime Association (ILA). ILA was founded on 27th November 1970, in Paris/France, by national lime associations and manufacturers of lime products from Belgium, Finland, Germany, Japan, South Africa, Sweden, United Kingdom and the…
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VISION ZERO at THAILAND SAFE@WORK 2018
Author: Dr. Dheera Phong-anant, Safety and Health at Work Promotion Association Thailand (SHAWPAT), Bangkok/Thailand This year, the Safety and Health at Work Promotion Association Thailand (SHAWPAT) and the Thailand Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (TOSH) were co-organizing the 32nd annual national event on OSH, namely “Thailand SAFE@WORK 2018”, on…
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Documentation of Technical Developments at RAG on Examples taken from Coal Winning, Development Works and Logistics
The special geological conditions prevailing in the German coalfields have ensured that the methods and technologies for mining and conveying coal that were developed by the mining companies and equipment suppliers would gain recognition and today be used the world over. The series of books published by RAG Aktiengesellschaft, Essen/Germany,…
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A Success Story: Bottrop and the Mining Industry
On 15th December 2016 the Prosper-Haniel roadway drivage team completed the last of Bottrop colliery’s development projects with the final breakthrough into the Haniel-West panel on the 1,240 m level. This would provide access to all the remaining coal that was to be extracted before the mine was finally closed…
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Last Shift for the Mine in the deep North – the Ibbenbüren Coal Mining District looks back on nearly 500 Years of History
With the hoisting of the last skip on 4th December 2018, the last chapter of hard coal production at the mine of RAG Anthrazit Ibbenbüren GmbH, Ibbenbüren/Germany, ended, and thus by the end of 2018 the hard coal mining in Germany. Despite all the melancholy, the team has been highly…
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RAG post-2022
The RAG company, which is based in Essen/Germany, has always been known as a coal producing business. However, following the coal-policy decisions taken in 2007 and 2010 this era is set to come to a close at the end 2018 after more than 150 years of coal production in the…
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Coal 2018 – the Annual Report of the German Coal Association
The Essen-based German Coal Association (GVSt), formerly known as the Association of the German Hard Coal Industry, was set up immediately after the founding of Ruhrkohle AG in 1968. The aim at that time was to place the German coal mining industry on a new footing after more than ten…
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SafeMine PhD-Programme – Educating the Mine Health and Safety Workforce of Tomorrow
For a modern mining company with attractive and safe workplaces a new type of leader for tomorrow’s health and safety at work is needed. This was the reason for four leading European mining universities to working closely together with industrial partners in order to develop a PhD-programme with a focus…
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