Society of metallurgists and miners

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The GDMB Society of Metallurgists and Miners eV is a specialist society for the promotion of scientific, technological, economic and ecological issues in the areas of raw materials and georesources, non-ferrous metallurgy, recycling and environmental technology.

history

The GDMB was founded in Berlin in 1912 as a society of German metal smelters and miners with the aim of promoting scientific and technical exchange and the transfer of knowledge and experience between experts in iron and metal ore mining. With the founding of the GDMB, the magazine Metallurgie , founded in 1904 by Wilhelm Borchers as publisher and whose management also included Fritz Wüst from 1906 , was renamed to the magazine Metall und Erz , which from then on functioned as an association organ. During the Second World War, the office in Berlin was destroyed. The company was re-established in 1947 and was associated with a first general meeting in Clausthal-Zellerfeld in 1947. In 1957 the GDMB history committee was founded. a. engaged in research into mining and the collection of literature on metal extraction in Central Europe. This organizes annual conferences in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France, Poland and Slovakia. The new magazine for ore mining and metalworking - ore metal for short - was published by GDMB Verlag from 1968. Globalization and the decline of the German mining industry required a reorientation and the exchange of information and the formation of networks came to the fore. In 1990 the chairman of the GDMB Rolfroderich Nemitzdie founded the DGMB-Montanstiftung, the aim of which is to promote the next generation of miners. The GDMB-Informationsgesellschaft mbH was founded in 1992. The formation of various specialist committees, working groups and district groups, such as the waste management specialist committee, followed. In January 1996 the company was renamed the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, Raw Material and Environmental Technology and then in 2013 the GDMB Society of Metallurgists and Miners eV .

Publishing work

GDMB Verlag GmbH publishes various specialist journals and books. The GDMB magazines World of Metallurgy - ERZMETALL and World of Mining - Surface & Underground appear every two months . The magazine Markscheidewesen , which appears three times a year, is published for the German Markscheider Association . Since 2012, the trade journal METALL - trade journal for metallurgy has been published in 10 issues per year by GDMB Verlag. In addition, the GDMB Verlag publishes the conference volumes from various events such as the European Metallurgical Conference , as well as the booklets of the GDMB series. Finally, the publisher publishes further specialist books on the areas of analysis, processing, mining, deposit science, metallurgy and mining history.

Association work

The GDMB works with other institutions and organizations that have similar objectives as

Awards

In memory of the scholar Agricola , who is considered to be the founder of modern geology and mining, the Georg Agricola commemorative coin was launched at the 1924 general meeting . This was initially only awarded irregularly, then annually from 2004 onwards. The first prize winner was Ferdinand Heberlein , a German-Swiss metallurgical chemist.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ About us - GDMB. In: gdmb.de. Retrieved September 11, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e Processing technology: 100 years of GDMB. In: at-minerals.com. March 11, 2010, accessed September 11, 2019 .
  3. ^ Metallurgy: Journal for the entire metallurgical technology - processing - metal extraction - metal use excluding the iron and steel industry, Verlag Wilhelm Knapp, Halle ad Saale
  4. ^ History Committee - GDMB. In: gdmb.de. Retrieved September 11, 2019 .
  5. ↑ About us - GDMB. In: gdmb.de. Retrieved September 11, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Processing technology. In: at-minerals.com. September 6, 2012, accessed September 11, 2019 .
  7. ↑ World of Metallurgy - ERZMETALL
  8. ^ World of Mining - Surface & Underground
  9. ^ Publishing program - GDMB. In: gdmb.de. Retrieved September 11, 2019 .
  10. ^ GDMB-Verlag specialist books. In: gdmb.de. Retrieved September 29, 2019 .