Events

To remine or not to remine extractive waste in Europe? That was the core question during the symposium "(Re)Mining Extractive Waste, A new business?" (Mechelen, May 17-18, 2022). SIM² Director Peter Tom Jones summarises the main lessons learned.

The 2-day symposium “(Re)Mining extractive waste, a new business?” gathers leading experts in the field of (re)mining of mining-related waste, with a focus on the tailings that arise during the mining and processing of sulphidic ores.

Join the online clustering workshop on ‘’The use of Deep Eutectic Solvents and Ionic Liquids for metal recovery’’, organized by 4 H2020 projects in the circular economy (ION4RAW, CROCODILE, TARANTULA, PEACOC)

In the framework of the International Conference on Raw Materials and Circular Economy #RawMat2021, held on September, 5-9th 2021 in Athens (Greece), Lourdes Yurramendi presented the Oral Communication: A sustainable process for the recovery of valuable metals from spent lithium ion batteries by deep eutectic solvents leaching (L. Yurramendi, J. Hidalgo, A. Siriwardana) With this work, Dr. Lourdes Yurramendi represented ...

On the 27th of January 2021 we had the M30 consortium virtual meeting of our #H2020 project CROCODILE ♻️.

During M19-M24, a global pandemy due to COVID-19 affected social and economic activities worldwide. In CROCODILE project, the M24 face to face meeting to be celebrated in Valencia (June 25-26th) was cancelled. A strong effort was dedicated to organize both this Telco M24 meeting involving the WP leaders.

European Metallurgical Conference EMC 2021 - June 27, 2021 - June 30, 2021

How feasible is the transition to a climate-neutral economy (European Green Deal) in terms of the availability of the required (critical) metals? During the March 12 Seminar in Brussels an expert panel tried to provide answers.

On December 18, 2019, 18 months after the CROCODILE project has begun its work, the CROCODILE project team had a meeting with the external reviewers and the project officer of the European Commission for the midterm review meeting. The various CROCODILE partners presented their work conducted so far and outlined the next steps and plans for future activities. The agenda ...

Public acceptance or the ‘Social License to Operate’ is widely acknowledged as the biggest financial risk for the mining sector. Six different perspectives and recommendations coming from six different sectors were debated during a satellite event of the EU Raw Materials Week (22 Nov. 2019).