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ISSUE 04/2022 // FOCUS OF THIS ISSUE: TEACHING AND RESEARCH IN MINING Intelligent Search Engine Makes Expert Knowledge Usable Hard coal mining in Germany is history, but the expert knowledge from 150 years should remain. But how can information that is hidden in millions of documents on numerous servers be made efficiently usable? To solve this problem, RAG Aktiengesellschaft, Essen/Germany, relies ...

ISSUE 03/2022 // FOCUS OF THIS ISSUE: MINING NETWORKS Landfill Operations Set to Continue at the Former Vereinigte Ville Opencast Lignite Mine The now depleted Vereinigte Ville lignite mine south of Cologne/Germany has been used as a landfill facility since the 1970s. Each year the 300 ha site receives some 1.7 Mt of mineral waste of landfill class I, II ...

ISSUE 02/2022 Hyperspectral Sensing to Boost AMD Monitoring in Post-Mining Scenery The evolving hyperspectral sensors have become a big ally for a large range of applications in remote sensing for the monitoring of a variety of earth ecosystems and processes (natural and anthropogenic). The processes occurring within the mining life cycle are not an exception. Hyperspectral sensors have been widely ...

ISSUE 01/2022 Climate Change | Management and Monitoring of Soil and In Situ Sensor Data as the Key to Process Understanding The decision to reconfigure and straighten the route of the Emscher river in 1902 was to herald the start of a dismal future for the waterway as the industrial age went on to reach its peak. While the Ruhr ...

ISSUE 06/2021 Tools for Change – How the EU Wants to Achieve the Coal Transition The European Commission has been striving to initiate an EU-wide coal phase-out since the end of 2017 in the form of the initiative “Coal Regions in Transition”. The aim of the activities is to provide structural support to the EU’s coal regions during their move ...