Highlights at HILLHEAD 2024

On 22.10.2009 the Department of Environmental and Recycling Engineering at Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences organized in collaboration with the Institute of Mineral and Waste Processing,...

I‌ncreasing demand for raw materials, availability of primary raw materials (poorer ores at lower depths, export restrictions), efficient circular economy, Industry 4.0 and digitization – these are...

Dear Readers The African continent has many strategic raw materials, which are interesting for the economy of the world, such as oil, gold, diamonds and ores. The influence of the mining industry...

Dear Readers,There are approximately 3500 dams for processing residues in the mining industry worldwide – and the trend is rising due to the decreasing ore content in the mineral deposits. If such a...

G‌ravel, sand, grit and natural stones are domestic raw materials urgently required for road and housing construction. The demand is rising, but a lot of extraction operations are facing looming...

The conservative and efficient use of resources stands top of the agenda for companies today. As a framework for this, the EU Commission presented its “Roadmap to a resource-efficient Europe” in...

Dear Readers Most of the industries are unable to work without raw materials. But how can they be extracted reasonably, cost-effectively and as environmentally compatible as possible? Some of the...

Dear Readers, Latin America has always been a synonym for mining, ore extraction and a wealth of natural resources. The article by Dr. Joachim Harder from page 36 analyzes the current conditions of...

Dear readersThe discussions about the future energy supply are accompanied, e.g., by the question of the future availability of the raw material gypsum, which is used both as a natural raw material...

If in future, car and lorry drivers, cyclists and bikers on Germany’s public roads notice a Cat Dumper 725C or 730C coming towards them, it is not that these heavy construction machines have lost...