Project: Improve Resource Efficiency and Minimize Environmental Footprint

Acronym	REMinE
Duration	01/12/2015 - 31/03/2019
Project Topic	The global demand for metals and minerals is growing rapidly; Europe has a huge trade deficit for metallic minerals, and therefore needs to extract more of its own resources to reduce this dependence. The occurrence of valuable minerals and metals in historical mine waste can in many cases constitute a risk for the environment, but can also be a resource of critical materials. The project vision is to “clean up” historical mine sites by extracting critical metals and separating minerals, thereby minimizing the amount of harmful mine waste.The project is divided into five work packages; project administration by Luleå University of Technology (WP1), detailed characterization and risk assessment of the mine wastes (WP2), identification of new processing methods (WP3), characterisation and risk assessment of the remaining residues (WP4), outlining of business opportunities and a conceptual model for sustainable mining (WP5). The project has study sites from Portugal, Romania and Sweden. Owner of the sites are associated to the project and will contribute with their expertise of the sites, provide access to areas, attend in project meetings and continuously take part of the results during the project. The result is expected to lead to finding of new resources, new recycling technologies related to environmental risks, business opportunity and education of undergraduate and graduate students.
Network	ERA-MIN
Call	The Third ERA-MIN Joint Call (2015)

Project partner

Number	Name	Role	Country
1	Luleå University of technology	Coordinator	Sweden
2	National Institute for Metals and Radioactive Resources	Partner	Romania
3	Porto University	Partner	Portugal