In recent months, changes on the global market for crude oil and natural gas have contributed to sulphur processing becoming a more than profitable business sideline. Whereas the raw sulphur price...
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Canada’s mining industry is in the focus of our category “Trends and Equipment” in this issue (p. 54). In addition to an analysis of the present state of affairs as regards the...
61st Mining and Metallurgy Day of the Freiberg Mining Academy Technical University, Freiberg/Germany (09.–11.06.2010)
About 700 experts from 23 countries met in Freiberg/Saxony from 9.-11.06.2010 on the occasion of the Freiberg research forum, the 61st Mining and Metallurgy Day, (Fig. 1). The focus was on the...
On 24 November 2016 the Freiberg Geocompetence Centre (below: FGCC), headed by its director, Dr. Wolfgang Reimer, who also chaired the event, held in Freiberg in Saxony, Germany, an information...
We regret to announce that the Responsible Mining Foundation (RMF) will close and cease activities in the next few months. This is due to a lack of independent long-term co-funding that would allow us...
FLSmidth confirmed that it has joined the Copper Mark as a Partner. The Copper Mark is an international framework established to demonstrate the copper industry’s responsible production practices and...
High-volume belt conveyor systems are among the most hazardous pieces of equipment in any bulk handling operation. Maintaining the delicate balance between production demands and efficiency can be a...
Martin Engineering, a worldwide leader in bulk materials handling technology, has announced the retirement of Chief Technical Director Todd Swinderman (Fig.) as of December 31, 2011. He will...
After a career spanning 47 years, the last six of which were spent as a successful Managing Director of SCHADE Lagertechnik GmbH, in Gelsenkirchen/Germany, Karl-Heinz Fiegenbaum was given a fitting...
The graphic artist and illustrator Hermann Kätelhön (*22 September 1884 in Hofgeismar, †24.11.1940 in Munich) remains present especially in the Ruhr district of Germany, where his hewing...
