27.09.2019 (2825 Clicks)
De Beers Group and UN Women complete the Training of more than 700 Women Micro-entrepreneurs in Southern Africa
On the second anniversary of becoming a HeForShe Thematic Champion and partnering with UN Women, De Beers Group today announced that more than 700 women micro-entrepreneurs in Namibia and South Africa have successfully completed their training.
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27.09.2019 (3049 Clicks)
Bullseye Mining Uses Modern Day Exploration Techniques to Discover What the 'Old Miners' Could Not Reach at the Historic Hurleys Gold Shafts
The historic Gold Shafts atop of the Hurleys Gold Deposit have been lying abandoned since the Second World War, with only occasional small-scale prospecting by those fascinated with the sheer dearth of hard, physical work and preservation shown by the historic Gold Rush Prospectors under the Australian Outback sun.
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25.09.2019 (2937 Clicks)
Costain: Catherine Warbrick appointed Group HR Director
Costain, the smart infrastructure solutions company, has appointed Catherine Warbrick as Group HR director and a member of its Executive Board.
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25.09.2019 (3649 Clicks)
CIMIC's Thiess secures $1.3 billion Curragh Extension
CIMIC Group’s global mining services provider, Thiess, has been awarded a six-year A$1.3 billion contract extension by Coronado Global Resources Inc to provide mining services at the Curragh Mine in Queensland, Australia.
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25.09.2019 (3428 Clicks)
CIMIC Group's CPB Contractors wins $463m Sydney Metro Station project
CIMIC Group company CPB Contractors has been selected to build the new Sydney Metro City & Southwest Pitt Street Station.
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23.09.2019 (3749 Clicks)
Tunnelling World meets in Malaysia - WTC 2020
- World Tunnel Congress 2020 in Kuala Lumpur to be held from 15 to 21 May 2020
“The preparations for the World Tunnel Congress (WTC) and 46th ITA General Assembly 2020 in Kuala Lumpur are in full swing.
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19.09.2019 (3515 Clicks)
Epiroc wins orders for battery electric Mining Equipment from Customers in several Countries
Less than a year after Epiroc’s launch of its new generation battery electric mining equipment, the company has won orders for those machines from customers in several countries including Finland, Australia and Canada.
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19.09.2019 (4298 Clicks)
Ciel & Terre in Germany: Floating Solar Plant on a Quarry Lake
This summer, a new European country adopted floating solar and chose Ciel & Terre’s Hydrelio solution: Germany. The country is getting interested in the installation of this state-of-the-art technology combining sunray and water. The solar array, located on an Ossola’s GmbH quarry lake and developed by Erdgas Südwest, was inaugurated earlier in the summer. It was, in the meantime, the inauguration of an unprecedented anchoring system on a FPV plant…
Ciel & Terre has breached in a new European market. Its flagship product Hydrelio arrived in Germany. Karlsruhe region inaugurated a 750 kWp floating solar array in July, which is expected to produce 736 MWh per year. The facility provides energy for the pond owner Ossola GmbH’s quarry machines. The excess of electricity produced is re-injected into the local grid.
The achievement of Maiwald FPV plant is the result of a fruitful collaborative effort between Ciel & Terre and German major energy actors. The mining company, Ossola GmbH, commissioned Erdgas Südwest, a EnBW subsidiary (one of the biggest German energy company), to develop and construct the project. Erdgas Südwest chose Ciel & Terre to fully design and supply the floating structure, including the anchorage, which installation was also handled by its experts.
An innovative anchoring system for a challenging site
Owing to the site type – a 40 ha quarry lake – the installation of the floating PV plant was ambitious. Physical and operational constraints particularly questioned the usual anchoring solutions. Among them, gaps dug underwater with variable depths, up to 59m, and another hole planned to be made shortly. To solve this situation, Ciel & Terre issued an unprecedented anchoring solution worldwide: the first parabolic mooring line system. The plant is attached to the banks on three sides and its fourth edge is tied to a cable crossing the pond, which bonds opposite lakeshores.
Design, supply and installation, but not only
The specificity and unicity characterizing this anchorage have led Ciel & Terre to train and propose consulting on this world-premiere floating solar array with a parabolic mooring line. The group is actually widely involved in sharing knowledge with its interlocutors, as part of either the installation process or its training events.
About Ciel & Terre International
Established in 2006 as a specialist in the integration of photovoltaic systems, Ciel & Terre has been fully devoted to floating solar PV since 2011, developing the first patented, and industrialized water-based PV concept: HYDRELIO. The company was awarded Intersolar Prize 2017 for its innovative technology. In response to land use conflicts, this solution consists of installing PV modules on inland and artificial water bodies to produce energy in a more efficient way. The floating PV group’s activity is fully-integrated, including technical innovation, manufacturing, project development, design, as well as system O&M, financing solutions and consulting activities. So far, the track-record of the company reaches 300 MWp.
About OSSOLA GmbH
The name OSSOLA represents two major branches of the construction industry. Building materials plants such as the Achern-Maiwald gravel works produce building materials that are mainly used in road construction, such as asphalt, gravel, hard core, sand, crushed stone and ready-mix concrete. The road construction segment builds roads of all kinds and develops construction and industrial areas. OSSOLA GmbH is a member of the Industrieverband Steine und Erden Baden-Württemberg e.V., Ostfildern.
About Erdgas Südwest GmbH
Erdgas Südwest is a service provider with its roots in the region and operations nationwide, based in Ettlingen and Munderkingen. Erdgas Südwest follows the idea of a close and sustainable energy supply with electricity and gas with the motto “Creating a natural future”. Green gases play a key role in the strategic focus on sustainability and renewable energies. Its subsidiaries bmp greengas GmbH, one of Germany’s largest biomethane distributors, and Netze-Gesellschaft Südwest mbH make a vital contribution to the development of such products. In addition, Erdgas Südwest is committed to the Voluntary Ecological Year voluntary service through the ProNatur initiative, with two positions and numerous projects on biodiversity, environmental education and flowering and orchard meadows for genuine environmental protection in the region.
Source: Ciel et Terre International
Ciel-et-Terre, Germany, Floating, Solar, Plant, Quarry, Lake, Mining







19.09.2019 (2679 Clicks)
Haver & Boecker Niagara expands into Australia
Haver & Boecker’s new mineral processing brand, expands its global presence into the Australian mining and aggregates industries.
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18.09.2019 (3207 Clicks)
Foundation Piles for the Elbtower reach Record Depth
Hamburg is setting new standards in urban design and sustainability with Europe’s biggest inner-city development project to date. Since 2001, the HafenCity district, which is close to the historic Speicherstadt area, has been a project of superlatives.
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11.07.2023
Blasthole Drilling Technology: where to next?
Machine development seems to have gone as far as it can in the blasthole drilling sector. This paper presents the state-of-the-art technology as used in underground and surface mining and in the quarrying and tunnelling industries and examines the limits to further development in these areas. ...
06.04.2023
The Circular Economy – more than just Recycling
The transition to a circular economy is unavoidable if we are to protect our climate and our environment. The conventional mining industry must become more environment friendly. Waste volumes need t...
06.04.2023
Circular Construction of the Future with Pilot Project in Bremen
Strabag’s Circular Construction & Technology Center (C3) at Bremen’s former oil port in Germany shall establish a regional circular economy that preserves resources and avoids carbon...
12.12.2023 - 13.12.2023
2nd International Congress and Exhibition - Mining of Uzbekistan and Central Asia
14.12.2023 - 15.12.2023
MINING WORLD CONGRESS 2023
14.12.2023 - 15.12.2023
GEOTEC HANOI 2023 – The 5th International Conference on Geotechnics for Sustainable Infrastructure Development
18.12.2023 - 19.12.2023
ICGGE 2023: 17. International Conference on Geotechnical and Geological Engineering

World’s longest Railway Tunnel Project – supported by innovative Conveyor Digitalisation and reliable Engineering
17. October 2022 (1985 Clicks)
The consortium BTC Brennero Tunnel Construction and the Hosch Group jointly delivered on a world-class tunnelling project by combining excellent engineering with the innovative remote monitoring system Hoschiris Discover.


RAG-Technikchronik - Buch 4: Technikentwicklung in der Logistik
27. December 2018 (13157 Clicks)
Das Buch 4 der Buchreihe „Dokumentation der technischen Entwicklung bei der RAG“ zeigt die Entwicklungen der vergangenen fünf Jahrzehnte im Bereich Logistik der RAG. Die Logistik unter Tage wurde durch die flächige Entwicklung des Steinkohlenbergbaus, z.B. durch Anschluss- oder Verbundbergwerke, und die Zunahme der Gewinnungsteufe vor erhebliche Herausforderungen gestellt.


27.11.2023 (511 Clicks)
Akobo Minerals celebrates historic milestone: hitting gold ore body at the Segele Mine


22.11.2023 (121 Clicks)
Start-up Northvolt develops state-of-the-art sodium-ion battery validated at 160 Wh per kg
