Synergies
Explore the ongoing XTRACT synergy projects below. Stay tuned for updates as more collaborations are added!
START Project
The START Project (Sustainable Energy Harvesting Systems Based on Innovative Mine Waste Recycling) is an EU-funded initiative under the Horizon Europe Programme. It aims to create sustainable, tellurium-free thermoelectric systems for harvesting waste heat, using secondary raw materials sourced from mining waste within the European Union.
By collecting and repurposing waste sulphides from deactivated mine dumps and tailings, START offers an innovative solution to reduce resource dependency, align with the European Green Deal objectives, and promote a circular economy.
The project’s primary goal is to develop sustainable and economically viable thermoelectric technologies for applications in heavy industry, maritime sectors, and as power sources for off-grid sensors and IoT devices.
MINE.IO Project
MINE.IO , a Holistic Digital Mine 4.0 Ecosystem, is a €14M, 42-month project bringing together 25 partners focused on industrialization, informatization, and sustainable development of the mining sector. It aims to provide solutions that will build a novel mining digital ecosystem and a systemic structure for the implementation of Industry 4.0 in mining industrial environments. MINE.IO solution will embrace the whole mining system value chain from resources’ exploration, extraction, and processing to waste management and post-mining activities, with seven pilot use cases in Germany, Poland, Greece, Finland, and Portugal.
BLOOM Project
BLOOM is a Horizon Europe initiative with a €7.5M budget uniting 15 partners across 4 European countries, as well as Canada and Brazil. The project is focused on facilitating the exploitation of primary critical raw materials (CRMs, minerals and metals only) for the EU to strengthen EU supply chains by increasing efficiency in the extraction and processing of minerals with a smart and modular solids analysis system consisting of an online MLA (Mineral Liberation Analysis) with a sensor based on LIBS (Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy) technology, which enables the integration of advanced control loops at different stages of processing on mining sites, based on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence techniques, or data-driven extraction operations based on accurate mineralogy information from the site.
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement no. 101138432
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