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Nano-particle products from new mineral resources in Europe |
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ProMine |
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Mission and Objectives
| The non-energy extractive industry (NEEI) is a significant contributor to the economy of the EU providing metalliferous and non-metalliferous mineral resources to the society as well as direct and indirect employment. Many industries directly rely on the availability of mineral raw materials. These industries provide direct employment for almost 30 million people, which means that the availability of raw materials plays a key role for the economy of the EU.
EU is heavily dependent on mineral and metal imports leading to an annual trade deficit of about €11 billion. Metallic minerals accounted for 90% of this deficit, while there were also net trade deficits in construction minerals and industrial minerals. Another major issue is that the EU is totally dependent on imports for some strategic metals.
Important new strategic high-tech metals for the European industry include e.g. cobalt, niobium, rhenium, rare earth elements, platinum and titanium. In the development of state-of-the-art technology and advanced products they have a crucial significance.
ProMine project seeks alternatives for imports of metals and minerals to Europe. Its objectives address the European Commission’s concerns over the annual trade deficit in metal and mineral imports.
The ProMine project is working on three main themes:
•Downstream: Following 5 potential, high value, new mineral-based products from extraction, fundamental research to bench scale, and from these, selected products to demonstration scale, including production, testing and evaluation of these materials, with economic evaluation, life cycle cost analysis, and environmental sustainability, and
•Upstream: Developing a GIS-based resource assessment and modelling system for the extractive industry, showing both known and predicted mineral occurrences across the EU, whereby not only metallic but also non-metallic minerals are considered.
•Upstream: Demonstrating the reliability of new technologies (including biotechnology) for an ecoefficient production of strategic metals, driven by the creation of added value on site and the identification of specific needs of potential end-users.
ProMine work packages are the following:
WP1. Geological mineral resource potential modelling across Europe
WP2. 4D modelling of mineralised belts
WP3. New nano-products from mineral exploitation
WP4. Ecoefficient metal production methods and utilization of secondary materials,
WP5. Assessment of sustainability and environmental impact
WP6. Knowledge management and exploitation
WP7. Project Management
ProMine assesses the real value of European mineral resources. It has been estimated that the hypothetical in situ value of unexploited minerals at a depth of 500–1,000 metres below surface is about €100 billion. Whether these so far unexploited minerals will be exploited depends on the availability of new exploration and mining technologies and global trends in commodity prices. A comprehensive database will be essential to ensuring that these resources can be accessed as efficiently and effectively as possible. |
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ProMine is part-financed by the European Community´s 7th Framework Programme NMP Theme under Grant agreement n:o NMP-LA-2009-228559.
Geological Survey of Finland - GTK is coordinating the ProMine project, which involves a total of 27 partners from 11 EU member states.
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European Commission
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The objective of ProMine WP1 can be summarized as the development of a Pan-EU GIS data management and visualization system for natural and man-made mineral endowment and the realization of a Pan-EU predictive resource assessment. In order to reach this objective, WP1 will fulfil three main assessments, implementing the latest developments in metallogeny, photosatellite imagery treatment and database management:
- Assessment of EU mineral resources (including new strategic and 'green‘ commodities such as Ga, Ge, In, Li, Nb, Ti, Ta, PGE and REE);
- Assessment of secondary (industrial) minerals and resources in combination with metalliferous ores (will be realized at the same time as previous task);
- Assessment of valuable mining and metallurgical residues.
These assessments and their dedicated databases will serve the development and the feeding of a homogeneous multi-layer information system covering the whole European territory and including on top of the mineral deposit and mining wastes layers, geological, structural and geophysical layers.
This GIS will allow, through the combination of the data of the different thematic layers, and the study of their spatial relationships using statistical/geostatistical methods under expert supervision, to develop a predictive approach of EU mineral resources endowment.
Different predictive maps will thus be produced, dedicated to: (i) selected commodities or commodity groups, (ii) specific types of ore deposits, (iii) selected belts (and particularly those studied in WP2) and (iv) selected geodynamic domains or orogens or geological periods.
The workpackage 2 will develop geomodels which will use geodata and information bases to model and visualise the key spatial, geological, geophysical, geochemical and financial parameters of resources in 3D and 4D developed on common 3D GIS platforms.
4D geology models take also into account the geological evolution in 3 dimensions integrated over time. This will be achieved by using detailed thematic geoinformation gathered at scales from regional down to individual deposits from data retrival from mines, drill holes and remote sensing: geological units, rock alteration, zonation of metals and other minerals, hydrogeology, structure and tectonics, magnetics, gravity, reflection seismics, electromagnetics, electrics, radiation, heat flow, gas/vapour emission etc. 3-D geological subsurface models will be demonstrated for four major active mining belts of Europe: 1) Fennoscandian Shield (Skellefte-Pyhäsalmi), 2) Forsudetic belt (Kupfershiefer area) of Poland-Germany, 3) Iberia, both Portugal and Spain, and 4) the Hellenic belt of northern Greece, for the first time in Europe.
The GIS geomodels can be used interactively to measure the likely environmental and societal impacts of mineral extraction throughout the entire life cycle from discovery to closure, as well as financial and legislative limitations, to avoid conflicts in land use. A predictive 4D-geomodel of the upper 1 to 5 kilometers (depending on the local geology) of the Earth's crust in each mineral belt will be a major deliverable from this WP, be visualized in software that will be user-friendly and available for all partners.
New communication strategies will be developed in order to reach the targeted industry and the mineral community and especially to involve stakeholders.
More information including ProMine Stakeholder database can be found at: http://promine.gtk.fi/
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http://promine.gtk.fi/ |
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COORDINATOR
- GEOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS – GTK, FINLAND
6 MINING COMPANIES
- BOLIDEN MINERAL AB, SWEDEN
- KGHM CUPRUM SP ZOO CENTRUM BADAWCZO-ROZWOJOWE, POLAND
- AGC MINAS DE PORTUGAL
- HELLAS GOLD, GREECE
- PYHÄSALMI MINE OY, FINLAND
- GRECIAN MAGNESITE, GREECE
5 GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS INCL. GTK
- BUREAU DE RECHERCHES GEOLOGIQUES ET MINIERES, FRANCE
- INSTITUTO GEOLÓGICO Y MINERO DE ESPAÑA, SPAIN
- INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND MINERAL EXPLORATION GREECE
- LABORATÓRIO NACIONAL DE ENERGIA E GEOLOGIA I.P., PORTUGAL
6 UNIVERSITIES
- LULEÅ TEKNISKA UNIVERSITET, SWEDEN
- UNIVERSITEIT EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDS
- INSTITUT NATIONAL POLYTECHNIQUE DE LORRAINE, FRANCE
- THE UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK, UNITED KINGDOM
- BANGOR UNIVERSITY, UNITED KINGDOM
- TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG, GERMANY
10 INDUSTRY AND RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS
- CALDURAN KALKZANDSTEN, NETHERLANDS
- WOLA CHEMISCH-TECHNISCHE ERZEUGNISSE GMBH, GERMANY
- KGHM ECOREN S.A., POLAND
- SELOR EEIG, NETHERLANDS
- KEMAKTA KONSULT AB, SWEDEN
- INTEGRATED RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (IRM) COMPANY LIMITED, MALTA
- G.E.O.S. FREIBERG INGENIEURGESELLSCHAFT MBH, GERMANY
- INSTYTUT METALI NIEZELAZNYCH, POLAND
- TEKNOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS VTT, FINLAND
- KWH-MIRKA, FINLAND |
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ProMine partners BRGM and GTK are involved in INSPIRE Thematic Working Group (TWG) ‘Geology & Mineral Resources’ and the ProMine ‘model’ has been widely used when defining the mineral resources dataModel.
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| Contact information for SDIC |
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Juha Kaija
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Geological Survey of Finland - ProMine project |
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Project Manager
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P.O. Box 96 FI-02151 Espoo |
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FINLAND |
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+358405883080 |
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+3582055012 |
| PROPOSED ROLE IN INSPIRE DEVELOPMENT |
| Which role(s) do you foresee for the SDIC in INSPIRE development |
- participate in the review process
- implement pilot projects to test/revise/develop the draft Implementing Rules
- be kept informed
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ProMine partners have participated internationally significant national research programs including: GMRAP (Global Mineral Resources Assessment Project/Europe)and OneGeology.
ProMine partners BRGM and GTK are involved in INSPIRE Thematic Working Group (TWG) ‘Geology & Mineral Resources’ and the ProMine ‘model’ has been widely used when defining the mineral resources dataModel. |
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