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Sustainable Smart Mining: Safe, Economical, Environmental Friendly, Digital

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The future of the extractive industry will be increasingly safer and more efficient. It will be more economical and highly environmental-friendly. It will be digitalized. In the title you can dress the future of the global commodities industry. When the global smart-mining-market generated a revenue of US$5.328 million in 2014, it is expected to reach a market value of US$15.837 million by 2022 with a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 14.9%. This publication consists of three sections. After a brief description of the development in German underground coal mining follows: (a) the first trials to introduce an environmentally important e-mobility system for increasingly overcrowded cities; and (b) current best practice examples from the extractive raw materials industry are shown.

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Notes

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     Translation: Education as a basis.

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     In succession for Dr. Thomas Bartnitzki, since end of 2019 chancellor of Stralsund university.

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     “Cloud computing” refers to the application of IT infrastructures such as storage space, computing power or software outsourced via the Internet to service providers.

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    http://indurad.de

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     “Operations Research” (OR) refers to the application of various mathematical, statistical, stochastic, and other quantitative methods to economic or operational questions.

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     Niederlassung Voith GmbH & Co. KGaA Fördertechnik, Mülheim/Ruhr, Nordrhein-Westfalen.

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Hartlieb-Wallthor, P.v., Hecken, R., Kowitz, SF., Suciu, M., Ziegler, M. (2022). Sustainable Smart Mining: Safe, Economical, Environmental Friendly, Digital. In: Frenz, W., Preuße, A. (eds) Yearbook of Sustainable Smart Mining and Energy 2021. Yearbook of Sustainable Smart Mining and Energy - Technical, Economic and Legal Framework, vol 1. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84315-1_4

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