2015 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Securing Final and Border Slopes in the Open-Pit Lignite Mines of the Rhenish Mining District from the Perspective of the Mining Authority
verfasst von : Rolf Petri
Erschienen in: Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium Continuous Surface Mining - Aachen 2014
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The Rhenish mining district in North Rhine-Westphalia has a deposit volume of 35 billion tons of economically extractable reserves; thus, making it one of the most significant lignite deposits in Germany and Europe. Over more than 100 years, a mining industry has evolved which is concentrated in the three large-scale open-pit mines Garzweiler, Hambach, and Inden of the mining company RWE Power AG today. Approximately 100 million tons of lignite are mined every year and used primarily to generate electricity.