A new face drilling rig for narrow tunnels and ... - Advanced Mining
A new face drilling rig for narrow tunnels and ... - Advanced Mining
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Issue 04 | 2010<br />
TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY<br />
DIVERSIFICATION INTO THE NON-<br />
METALLIC MINERALS INDUSTRY<br />
Shaftsinking <strong>and</strong> Drilling has <strong>for</strong> a number of years been diversifying increasingly into three key<br />
markets:<br />
•Geographic<br />
expansion into Russia<br />
•Technical<br />
expansion through increased <strong>drilling</strong> activities <strong>and</strong><br />
•Market<br />
expansion into the mining sector of the<br />
nonmetallic minerals industry.<br />
In the past Thyssen Schachtbau GmbH has primarily been involved in national projects <strong>for</strong> the coal,<br />
salt <strong>and</strong> ore mining industries. For the last six years the Shaftsinking <strong>and</strong> Drilling division has also been<br />
engaged in specialist engineering projects <strong>for</strong> tunnelling <strong>and</strong> hydro power plant construction industry<br />
in Switzerl<strong>and</strong>.<br />
Projects successfully completed <strong>for</strong> the non-metallic minerals sector include the reopening of the<br />
Gehren barites mine in Thuringia in 2005/2006 <strong>and</strong> the <strong>new</strong> development of the Mähringer Berg lime<br />
mine in Baden-Wuerttemberg in 2007/2008.<br />
Excavation of a spiral chute <strong>and</strong> other<br />
development work in the Gehren barites<br />
mine<br />
The <strong>for</strong>mer fluorite <strong>and</strong> barytes mine at Ilmenau-Gehren<br />
had to be closed <strong>for</strong> economic reasons in 1991. The mine<br />
workings were subsequently flooded.<br />
Left: taking <strong>face</strong> samples at the Gehren<br />
barites mine.<br />
Below: blast-hole-jumbo underground.<br />
(Foto: staff of consortium)<br />
The ever growing dem<strong>and</strong> <strong>for</strong> raw materials <strong>and</strong> the<br />
resulting increase in the price of imported commodities at<br />
the beginning of this century, combined with the unusual<br />
purity of the Gehren deposits, led the Fluorchemie Group<br />
to consider freeing itself from economic <strong>and</strong> political<br />
uncertainty by procuring raw-materials supplies from own<br />
resources.<br />
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