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Dhe availability of strategic and critical raw materials is at risk. At the height of the 2020s, the European Union (EU) continues to remain dependent on imports from overseas, including many countries with a high geographical risk. In addition, the vast majority of non-metallic and metallic minerals are received from a few third countries, furthermore underlining the EU’s strategic dependencies. ...

One of the largest tin resources in the world, a rich mining tradition and good data availability going back centuries – all would seem to portend well for the Tellerhäuser project that Saxore Bergbau has launched in eastern Germany. The operation, which is based in the mining town of Freiberg, has been under way for several years and is being ...

Saxony Minerals & Exploration AG (SME AG), Halsbrücke/Germany, plans to put the Pöhla-Globenstein polymetallic skarn deposit, located within the Pöhla SME permit field, into use. The special feature is to plan, construct and commission a mine from scratch. In the specific case of the Pöhla ore mine, the main challenges were substantial water inflows with a high suspended solids content, ...

KSL Kupferschiefer Lausitz GmbH, Spremberg, was founded in 2007 as a Germany based subsidiary of MINERA S.A. and since then has been preparing the Spremberg copper deposit for mining. Since 2008 new data have been collected about the deposit which were discovered and partly explored since the 1960’s. This includes the development of concepts for mining and processing as well ...

Fluorite, also called fluorspar within the mining community, is an industrial mineral that is unknown to many, but plays an important role in many applications today. As the main natural occurring fluorine containing minerals it is part of the 30 critical materials of the EU that are still heavily relying on imports from countries outside the EU. The Fluorchemie Gruppe ...

Mining law is explicitly linked to spatial planning law in section 48(2) second sentence BBergG (BBergG – Federal Mining Act), and the latter is of major significance for operating plan approvals under mining law. The INSTRO reform report calls for greater consideration of spatial planning concerns – rightly so? This leads to the fundamental question: To what extent should and ...

Achieving the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement limiting the global temperature increase to 1.5 °C will require massive investment in renewable energy. The transition to a decarbonized energy system will lead to a huge increase in demand for minerals, especially metals, rare earth elements (REE) and lithium, making the energy sector a major force in commodity markets. More mining ...

The red mushroom button on a yellow background is an important safety element on machines and mechanical equipment. In many places, the so-called emergency command device is labelled emergency off, although it is actually an emergency stop. But why is that? This article is a reprint from the BG RCI magazine, issue November/December 2022, pp 16 to 17. Why are ...

In 2017, the gypsum plant Uehrde, Rump und Salzmann GmbH & Co. KG, Osterode am Harz/Germany, carried out the risk assessment of mental stress for the first time. In 2022, the assessment was repeated. In the interview with Kristin Kramer, Dr. Ulla Nagel GmbH, Dresden/Germany, and Bernhard Kirchner, German Social Accident Insurance Institution for the Raw Materials and Chemical Industry ...

The exploration of space has fascinated humankind for decades. Along with this, establishing a colony on other celestial bodies, such as the moon or Mars, has gained increasing interest. For building such a colony, the use of extraterrestrial raw materials is of great importance. In order to make these raw materials usable, just as in terrestrial processes, the first tasks ...