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Ausgabe 01_2015 Thyssen Schachtbau GmbH, based in Mülheim an der Ruhr, has for the last five years been increasingly engaged in drilling and freeze-shaft sinking operations in the Russian Federation. A whole range of projects of this kind have been delivered during this period. The most notable of these has been a shaft sinking in the Perm region and another ...

The mining journal Glückauf, which was founded by the Association for Mining Interests (VbI) of Lower Rhine and Westphalia, first appeared on 1 January 1865 as a supplement to the Essener Zeitung. When the last edition was published with volume number six in 2014 the journal had been in existence for 150 years. It was against this background that the ...

Ausgabe 01_2015 Unlike the shaft barriers used for the dry preservation of former mine workings and underground storage sites, shaft seals designed for radioactive-waste repositories must also fulfil additional requirements associated with the design diversity of the sealing system. This diversity makes use of the simple redundancy principle in order to prevent the proliferation of defects. In practice this means ...