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Stolberg Sinkholes: the Role of the Mining Authority in Cases of Non-Mining Sinkholes
In 2022, a sinkhole in the northern part of the city of Stolberg in North Rhine-Westphalia was reported to the Arnsberg District Government, Department Mining and Energy in NRW, Dortmund/Germany. Due to the known old mining in the area, a mining cause for the sinkhole could not be ruled out.…
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The DGGT & DMV Working Group “Post-Mining”. Development, Results and Perspectives
Due to the mining influence on many protected goods, there is considerable interest in many countries in dealing with abandoned mines and post-mining issues in an orderly manner. Mining leaves behind a wide range of challenges and unresolved tasks worldwide, often with negative impacts on people and the environment, as…
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Setting Requirements and Being a Resource as a Manager
Itis a challenge for managers to ensure the performance of the team and at the same time promote the health and long-term performance of employees. Managers can fulfil this leadership task by prioritising tasks and designing working conditions. If managers endeavour to be a resource themselves and support their employees,…
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Reorganisation of the Haus Aden Mine Water Pipeline – Special Challenges when Crossing Under the Datteln-Hamm Canal
Haus Aden is the only dewatering site in the eastern Ruhr district that will discharge mine water into the River Lippe in the long term. The reorganisation of the Haus Aden mine water pipeline is being carried out as part of individual final operating plans under the regime of mining…
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Sustainability Trends in Mining
The topic of “sustainability in mining” is by no means new in Germany and has been repeatedly rethought as a result of technological developments since the time of Georg Agricola. However, it was the 1972 study “The Limits to Growth” that first raised public awareness of the finite nature of…
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Innomotics a New/Old Player on the Global Market – Redefining Reliable Motion for a Better Tomorrow
The industrial ecosystem is currently undergoing major changes. Global drifts in the markets, new advanced technologies, new market requirements, but also the ever-increasing demand for higher efficiency and sustainability are moving all segments of industry. In order to be able to accompany this change as a partner, the Large Drive…
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The Geokompetenzzentrum Freiberg e.V. (GKZ) – a European Mining Network
The Geokompetenzzentrum Freiberg e.V. (GKZ), Freiberg/Germany, unites industry, universities, specialist authorities and local authorities as a network along the entire value chain of mineral raw materials and the development of conventional and renewable energies in the sense of a circular economy. The association focusses on research and development (R&D), training…
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Slurry Transport System of the ROBOMINERS Prototype
The increasing need of raw materials necessitates the exploitation of new deposits, potentially leading to (very) deep underground mines. With the help of fully automated machines and/or autonomous robots it is aimed to open difficult to access deposits or re-open abandoned mines. In the past four years, the consortium of…
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Framework Conditions for Automated Milling Wheel Replacement under Deep Sea Conditions
As part of the „Deep Sea Sampling“ research project, a trench cutter adapted for the extraction of marine massive sulphide ores shall be lowered from a ship into the deep sea and positioned and aligned on the seabed with the help of a landing unit (1). Once there, the system…
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Surface Blast Vibrations from Underground Shotfiring at Moderate Depths
The Heilbronn rock salt mine, which is owned by SĂĽdwestdeutsche Salzwerke AG, Heilbronn/Germany, has already carried out several trials aimed at reducing the impact of blast shocks occurring at ground level. Salt extraction is carried out at a moderate depth of around 200 m and targets the shelly limestone formations…
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