Translation of "Kohlegewinnung" in English

In the case of coal mining, depletion of the landscape needs to be limited, as do dust emissions.

No coal producing system would be complete without an efficient communications system.

In the important areas of charcoal extraction there was no lack of a baking oven.

The time available to the machine for winning coal is a major factor.

The Wirtgen surface miner makes coal mining simple, economical, eco-friendly and safe.

Mining activities and the regular coal supply are impossible without a reliable bulldozer fleet.

Although no longer in possession of the Stinnes family since more than a decade, “Hugo Stinnes Schiffahrt GmbH” is nowadays the only company bearing the name Stinnes and operating in one of the three original fields of activity of the Stinnes conglomerate (coal mining, metallurgical industry, shipping).

In the case of coal about 75% of the extracted material is coal and the other 25% are tailings.

Apart from coal, there is production of gas (Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom), oil (Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, UK), oil shale (Estonia), and peat (in several Member States, used in particular in Ireland and Finland).

From the 1960s onwards, when the West was restructuring its energy production and abandoning coal for oil, gas and nuclear energy, the central European countries were forced to exploit their own resources: for example very poor-quality, high-sulphur lignite and oil-bearing schists.

Against this picture then, it is hard not to expect developing countries to exploit their abundant coal resources to generate power for their own development, especially given that modern technology can help produce coal cleanly.

Finally, it should be remarked that for the winning of coal preference will be given to a pressure drop across the nozzles in the order of 20 MPa.

As additives can be used, also tailings and deads from coal extraction and/or ash granules and/or slags from coal combustion and/or slag from steel and iron industries and/or the calcium sulfite derived from exhaust gas washers with a lime base and/or the calcium sulfate dehydrate worked out from it.

While ensuring a prudent balance between the time scheduling of the coal winning and the development activity, at a level dictated by the mining risks, a reduction in the organizational and technical 'interface' between them is of great advantage provided that it can be achieved at economic cost.

It is a comment on the recent history of our industry that the pressures of the past ten years have been to improve the tactical drivages, that is to reduce the cost of exploiting coal, rather than to improve the rate of strategic drivage.

What we need is a positive Community strategy for the entire coal industry which underlines the future benefits of sustainable coal-mining and coal-use in Europe and highlights the global importance of modern European coal technology.

Dominant factors underlying these improvements are: a good level of cooperation between the workings and the central departments, and an operating team which has been adequately familiarized with the new technology.

The highest priority recommendations included many of the aspects which are currently being covered by the Community programme, i.e. problems of cab design and mobile equipment (specifically including seat design and control layout), lack of procedures in maintenance shops, materials handling, chemical hazards in coal preparation installations, training modules for site foremen and supervisors, and design of safety programme models for small operators.