Post Mining
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Sustainable Mine Water Management as a Perpetual Task – Mine Water Management in Hard Coal Post-Mining
With the end of hard coal mining in Germany in 2018, the operational need for underground water management ceased to exist. Since then, RAG Aktiengesellschaft, Essen/Germany, has been pursuing the goal of optimising mine water management in an ecologically and economically sustainable manner. The focus is particularly on protecting the…
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Post-Mining and German Economic Policy
If post-mining in Germany is viewed as a special economic sector, it is, like any other sector, embedded in the respective economic policy framework and measures, but also has specific economic policy concerns arising from its constraints and interests. These are measured here against the current economic policy positions of…
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Experiences and Findings for Sustainable Mine Water Management in Underground Hard Coal Mining
Managing mine water level rebound is a key task in post-mining operations. The focus here is on finding a controlled, sustainable and ecologically and economically viable solution for all parties involved. Intensive research and scientific monitoring of past and ongoing mine water level rebound in recent decades have enabled reliable…
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Nachbergbauzeit NRW 2025. Digitalization Meets Tradition
Long gone are the times of mining officials being trained at the Bochum Mining School. As a result of the continuous post-mining transformation, the traditional buildings are now home of the TH Georg Agricola University (THGA), Bochum/Germany, which prepares young engineers for today’s challenges and tackles the numerous tasks of post-mining.…
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Drones as a Tool for Post-Mining Environmental and Geomonitoring Applications
This article is a partial transcript of the opening lecture at the conference “Nachbergbauzeit in NRW 2025”, which took place on 20th March 2025 in Bochum/Germany (1). It presents a portfolio from the research environment of the Research Center of Post-Mining (FZN) at the TH Georg Agricola University (THGA) in…
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Development and Evaluation of an Interactive Tool for Multi-Hazard Analysis in European Post-Mining Regions
The closure of hard coal and lignite mines has the potential to result in long-term environmental risks and socio-economic issues. The European project “Post-Mining Multi-Hazards evaluation for land-planning” (POMHAZ), funded by the Research Fund for Coal and Steel, aims to enhance methodological knowledge for multi-hazard analyses at the mining region…
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REMINDNET – Recovery Mining District Network
There are numerous mining legacies both worldwide and in Europe. They can pose risks to people and the environment. Improperly closed, orphan or abandoned mines therefore represent a difficult legacy for governments, communities and mining companies. Both the closure of current mines and former mines require knowledge and methods to…
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Recording Historical Sites from the Point of View of Soil Protection Using the Example of the Callerstolln Mining Field
Department 63 of the Mining and Energy Department in NRW of the Arnsberg District Government, Dortmund/Germany, records former, historical mining sites throughout the state in accordance with the State Soil Protection Act of North Rhine-Westphalia (LBodSchG). The industrial history data collected is archived in a cadastre, the so-called Catalogue of…
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Development Potential of Post-Mining Sites from a Socio-Economic Perspective
From a socio-economic perspective, the development potential of post-mining sites is one of the key issues in post-mining research. To date, there have been a number of case studies and empirical investigations, as well as some generalisations derived from these, particularly in the context of the transformation debate. What is…
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Mine Water Management of Hard Coal Mining for Eternity – Development, Current Situation and Outlook for the Implementation of the Mine Water Concept and for the Integral Monitoring of Mine Water Rise
Based on the articles in the 2020 to 2022 annual reports of the Mining and Energy Department in NRW of the Arnsberg District Government, Dortmund/Germany, this article describes the further progress of the work to implement the mine water concept of RAG Aktiengesellschaft (RAG), Essen/Germany, with regard to the operating…
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