“Recycling mining waste, a new business?” (April 27, 2021)
Can the recycling of mining waste become a new business? That is the main question to be addressed in the Lunch Event & Debate organised by the Horizon2020 NEMO project. The event aims to present novel solutions for the treatment of mining waste, which comprises...
Resource Recovery through Enhanced Landfill Mining: A Review
On September 1, 2016, the ‘European Training Network for Resource Recovery Through Enhanced Landfill Mining’ (NEW-MINE) kicked off. The project generated more than 40 scientific publications in domains ranging from geophysics via mechanical process engineering to...
Are radiological properties a limiting factor when trying to valorise bauxite residue?
In collaboration with their colleagues from University of Tartu, researchers from ProcESS/SIM² KU Leuven performed an in-depth radiological assessment of bauxite residue (BR) subjected to a neutralisation-leaching process, BR slags arising from the smelting of BR, and...
Can historic Zn–Pb mine waste (Plombières, Belgium) be a source of valuable metals?
SIM² KU Leuven researchers, in collaboration with University of Liège and HZDR, have characterised the historic Zn-Pb mine waste from the tailings pond located at Plombières, East Belgium. The work, which was published in Minerals, was performed in the framework of...
Participate to a survey on Enhanced Landfill Mining
The EU MSCA-ETN NEW-MINE team kindly invites you to support our research by participating to this survey on (enhanced) landfill mining. The online survey takes about 10 minutes to complete. Participants are requested to evaluate the societal impacts of landfill mining...
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