WAZ: NRW checked mine operation in cooperation with University
Essen (ots) - North Rhine-Westphalia Economics Minister Harry Voigtsberger (SPD) explores the opportunities for the operation of a mine in cooperation with a university. As the newspapers of the WAZ media group Essen (Wednesday edition) report is currently looking for a specialized department of the Ministry, how and where such a "reference bill" could be operated. A "scientific mining" is listed in the ministry as a possible "model for the period after 2018".
"A reference mine, which produces not to compete or not to rely on subsidies, it would facilitate the mining supply industry to offer its products worldwide," said ministry spokesman Stefan Groene tree of the WAZ media group. With its technologies, the industry is a world leader. NRW Minister Voigtsberger leave right now at the Department examine "what options there are to create sustainable conditions for such mining," the ministry spokesman.
The supplier industry supports the initiative. "If the proposal implemented, this would be an important contribution to the innovative leadership of German mining technology to secure about 2018 more," said Klaus Stöckmann from the German Engineering Federation (VDMA). The German mining equipment industry currently generates approximately 15,000 employees with nearly four billion euros in sales per year. Several German universities are in the mining sector to be particularly qualified, including the University of Applied Sciences Georg Agricola Bochum, RWTH Aachen, TU Clausthal (Lower Saxony) and the TU Bergakademie Freiberg (Saxony).
