Angela Binder

Clausthal University of Technology | TUC · Department of Mining

Water is an unequal distributed resource and the increase in demand in business and industry will lead more frequently to regional and temporary shortages, which will be exacerbated by global warming. As a major water user, the mining sector is expected to promote and support the implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (S...

Changing climate conditions are affecting the global water cycle, leading to an increase and intensification of devastating extreme weather events such as floods and droughts. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts that a total of 44 million Europeans will be affected by water scarcity by 2070. Around the world, many regions south o...

High precipitation, dams and waterworks make the Harz Mountains a large freshwater supplier. But, challenges arise based on climate change and extreme weather events. Old mine working can support water management if integrated into the system. Successful planning and integration need a holistic understanding of the regional water cycle, the current...

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Blue mining is the holistic approach to define responsible mining by reaching beyond the extraction of raw materials and utilizing the amenities of the mines during and after production based on an early-stage planning approach. Thus, a sound, save, and ergonomic mine practice is defined that maximizes the positive effects of mining while minimizin...

Nowadays we live in a society with a steadily increasing awareness for the environment on the one hand and a high enthusiasm for new technologies on the other hand. However, the awareness for raw materials and their role in a circular economy is rather low in the general public. This leads to two future challenges: the demand for raw materials incr...

Broad and deep knowledge in the field of ventilation and climatization is crucial for every underground mining engineer, especially for ventilation on demand concepts in the context of legal compliance on occupational exposure limits for gases and dust. Hence, the university curricula must ensure that future engineers have the necessary knowledge a...

Safety is the highest goal in a mining operation due to its responsibility towards the involved persons as employees but also in terms of the society. Furthermore, economical risks are closely related to unsafe working standards enhancing the severity of incidents. The mentality for safe and aware behavior needs to be set for all internal stakehold...

Historical Mining – Tracing and Learning From Ancient Materials and Mining Technology

Historical Mining – Tracing and Learning From Ancient Materials and Mining Technology https://youtu.be/mCGon9sreow

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Different approaches from various fields provide a variety of possibilities to increase the sustainability of a mining operation. The Blue Mining approach considers additional energy-related usages of a mine during and after production to support the local creation of value beyond the lifetime of the mine. By the integration in early planning stage...

Diversity in a workforce can be understood to represent many different aspects. Whether it is diversity of gender, race, cultural background, or thought, it is something we hear is often lacking or limited in the mining industry. On the other hand, diverse teams are proofed to be more productive. The presentation focusses on diversity in mining eng...

This booklet was created in the framework of the Project MineHeritage – Tracing and Learning From Ancient Materials and Mining Technology. It is designed as popular science material on the history of Kaiser-Wilhelm-Shaft in Clausthal, but also features modern shafts in mining operations.

During the last decades, a transformation in various fields influencing education can be observed: Learning habits change, e. g., due to substantial changes in the channels and media used to acquire information. Teaching alternatives become broader and digital and follow these changes. Graduated profiles need to address 21st-century skills for the...

Companies around the world are facing greater challenges to recruit skilled miners and mining engineers. Although safety work in the mining and tunnelling industry has been successful in the past decades, the working environment remains challenging and unique. The industry is burdened with the preconception of being dark, dusty and dangerous. Creat...

During the last decades, a transformation in various fields influencing the education can be observed: Learning habits change e.g. due to easier accessible material. Teaching alternatives become broader and digital. Graduated profiles must fit the work beyond the 4th industrial revolution. Those changes lead to challenges as well as opportunities a...

Inadequate stakeholder communication and engagements is a major impediment to the realization of the full mining potential of Africa. In most cases, it leads to unnecessary tensions, conflicts, resistance, mismatched expectations and misconceptions among various stakeholders. In Kenya, the exploitation of mineral reserves has often led to disputes...

2 Clausthal University of Technology, Center for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Courses introducing the technical basics of an area are a special challenge for teachers and learners. The courses represent the first serious contact of students to this specific area while teachers are the acknowledged experts in this field. Hence, simplifi...

Project acceptance and the follow-on social license to operate depends on its societal environment. Precognition and the development of the country and society change the perception of mining and highly influence awareness and acceptance. Regions with a long tradition in mining but highly decreased mining activities differ to “newer” mining region:...

This booklet was created in the framework of the Project MineHeritage – Tracing and Learning From Ancient Materials and Mining Technology. It is designed as popular science material to promote mining to the wider society.

For a modern mining company with attractive and safe workplaces a new type of leader for tomorrow’s Health and Safety at work is needed. This was the reason for four leading European mining universities to working closely together with industrial partners in order to develop a PhD-Programme with a focus on increasing mine safety, using the most up...

Moderne Bergbauunternehmen, welche attraktive und sichere Arbeitsbedingungen bieten möchten, brauchen zukünftig entsprechend ausgebildetes Führungspersonal. Aus diesem Grund arbeiten vier der führenden europäischen Bergbauuniversitäten mit Industriepartnern zusammen, um ein gemeinsames, koordiniertes Programm zur Doktorandenausbildung mit Fokus auf...

As sustainability is an integral part of the future of mining, it is necessary to include the topic in mining engineering education. The article reviews selected definitions of sustainability and its suitability for educating future mining engineers. Afterwards, approaches for the integration are presented and selected examples for the implementati...

or a modern mining company with attractive and safe workplaces a new type of leader for tomorrow’s health and safety at work is needed. This was the reason for four leading European mining universities to working closely together with industrial partners in order to develop a PhD-programme with a focus on increasing mine safety, using the most up t...

The increasing complexity of mining operations results in increasing requirements for the mining engineerging education. The demand of broad skills sets in constantly equal sized programs is the reason to blend the addressed skills in teaching and learning activities. A promising approch represents the experiential learning in an authentic envirmen...

Considering the growing global awareness for sustainability, anthropogenic deposits such as tailings have gained a lot of attention lately. On one hand, mine tailings are generally connected with inherent, long-term social, environmental and economic costs. A well-known and recent example was the dam failure at a Brazilian mine near Bento Rodrigues...

In the context of the fourth industrial revolution, mining is bound to undergo significant changes within the coming decades. Mining in the sense of Mining 4.0 will not only prioritise the efficient, sustainable and responsible use of available resources, but will also be characterised by digitalisation and automation. In order to adapt to those ch...

Today's society develops more and more a stronger sense of responsibility and awareness according to the overall environment. With regards to this change future decision makers in the field of raw material supply must be prepared to develop competences even in the field of Sustainability to cope with future challenges in the conflict area between e...

Underground Mining is characterized by a high degree of complexity and singularity due to specific deposit conditions and complex interactions with the environment. To gain a deep understanding of underground processes and its influencing factors traditional abstract teaching approaches mainly do not cover theses complexities in sufficient detail w...

Providing higher education in the field of Mining Engineering means having the responsibility to provide the necessary competences for the next generations of decision makers in the field of raw material supply. These competences are the basis for solving future problems. A significant issue in the future of mining is Sustainable Development. It co...

The current paper shows the advantage and need to combine mining and the use of renewable or alternative energy sources during the operation and in the stage of post mining. It represents a possibility to make mining more sustainable and use the opportunities which are induced by the mining itself. Blue Mining focuses on the key aspect of energy to...

Changing lifestyles affects significantly the type and demand of raw materials. Wide use and less sources lead to high economic importance combined with supply risks, which characterizes a Critical Raw Material (CRM). A way to lower supply risks is to unlock alternative sources for CRM. Tailings resulting from former mining activities could become...

Within the framework of the work, the potential of the tailing of the ore ming Rammelsberg was investigated with regard to the presence of indium. For this purpose, a general model has been developed which maps the formation of tailing ponds and in so doing considers the volume, the density and the indium content of the individual model elements fr...

In the thesis an instrument is developed, which evaluated qualitatively in the planning phase different routings by operating costs. After the definition of circumstances in planning different rock classification systems are compared by fulfillment of defined requierements and was tested on applicability. The results are that the systems meets the...