by Nanett Kalapos | Mar 14, 2023 | News
The triple digital, energy and circular economy transition in Europe requires access to materials such as lithium, neodymium and silicon for the production of batteries, permanent magnets and semiconductors. The demand for those materials has increased steadily over...
by Nanett Kalapos | Feb 22, 2023 | News
Photo by Daniel Eliashevsky Join our researchers to learn how re-mining could help acquiring raw materials for the green transition. Can new mines be designed totally waste free? What circular economy opportunities lie in the future mines? Why hasn’t all this been...
by magdalena.charytanowicz@weee-forum.org | Jan 26, 2023 | News
From left to right, Matti Kinnunen (GTK), Jouko Jylänki (Otanmäki Mine) and Janne Hokka (GTK) testing a differential GPS to mark the exact drilling points at the Otanmäki tailings site. Photo: Teemu Karlsson (GTK) In August 2022, GTK visited the Finnish case site,...
by magdalena.charytanowicz@weee-forum.org | Jan 19, 2023 | News
The EU’s Green Deal (2019) engages in a range of legislative and regulatory initiatives to make the European economy climate neutral and achieve the twin green and digital transitions. In response to that policy goal, the European Commission has announced that the EU...
by magdalena.charytanowicz@weee-forum.org | Jan 5, 2023 | News
Exploration for CRM (Critical Raw Materials) in Old Boliden Mine Tailings In the last week of September 2022, a team from Boliden, SGU and Ludwig-Maximilians Universität went to the Northern Sweden to conduct tailings explorations in two closed Boliden mines: The...
by magdalena.charytanowicz@weee-forum.org | Jan 2, 2023 | News
Photo by Petar Starčević from Pexels Late last year, FutuRaM partners headed to Brussels to present the project at the annual EU Raw Materials Week. The FutuRaM event was organised to engage with important stakeholders and collect valuable feedback on the project and...
