Post by pling on Dec 20, 2015 13:27:07 GMT
Fra vamos-project.eu
Viable Alternative Mine Operating System
- As part of the Horizon 2020 programme, a new 42 month Research & Development Project
has been launched to enable the exploitation and rehabilitation of underexploited and abandoned European deposits of mineral raw materials.
- ¡VAMOS! will enable access to high grade EU reserves of deeper seated minerals by providing a new Safe, Clean and Low Visibility Mining Technique and will prove the Environmental and Economic Viability of extracting currently unreachable mineral deposits, thus encouraging investment and helping to safeguard the EU access to strategically important minerals. The ¡VAMOS! mining technique will enable: Re-opening abandoned mines; Extensions of opencut mines which are limited by stripping ratio, hydrological or geotechnical problems; and opening of new mines with limited environmental impacts in the EU.
- Driven by the safety requirements of the mining industry and the environmental concerns of the general public regarding mining wastes and large tailings, ¡VAMOS! will develop a novel automated solution for exploration, extraction and pre-processing of ores found in inland flooded mines or in shallow sea waters, and will engage with all stakeholders to achieve environmental, economically and socially acceptable solutions to enable the exploitation of EU’s inland submerged mineral deposits.
Key research and innovation objectives of ¡VAMOS!:
- To develop a prototype underwater, remotely controlled, mining system with associated launch and recovery equipment and with the following sub-objectives
- To develop new, adapt and advance existing and finally integrate a set of technologies to overcome the limitations of currently available underwater sensing, spatial awareness, navigational and positioning technology in order to enable safe and reliable operation of the equipment in an enclosed and noisy mine environment – low visibility mining concept
- To provide an integrated solution for efficient real-time monitoring of environmental impacts
- To conduct field trials with the prototype equipment in abandoned and inactive mine sites with a range of rock types and at a range of submerged depths
- To evaluate the environmental performance, the economic feasibility, productivity and cost of operation
- To maximize positive social and economic impacts and enable the market up-take of ¡VAMOS! solutions by defining and overcoming the practicalities of the concept, proving the operational feasibility and the economic viability of the proposed technique
- To contribute to social acceptance of the new extraction technique via public demonstrations in different EU regions, combined with public outreach and dissemination on new mining alternatives
Viable Alternative Mine Operating System
- As part of the Horizon 2020 programme, a new 42 month Research & Development Project
has been launched to enable the exploitation and rehabilitation of underexploited and abandoned European deposits of mineral raw materials.
- ¡VAMOS! will enable access to high grade EU reserves of deeper seated minerals by providing a new Safe, Clean and Low Visibility Mining Technique and will prove the Environmental and Economic Viability of extracting currently unreachable mineral deposits, thus encouraging investment and helping to safeguard the EU access to strategically important minerals. The ¡VAMOS! mining technique will enable: Re-opening abandoned mines; Extensions of opencut mines which are limited by stripping ratio, hydrological or geotechnical problems; and opening of new mines with limited environmental impacts in the EU.
- Driven by the safety requirements of the mining industry and the environmental concerns of the general public regarding mining wastes and large tailings, ¡VAMOS! will develop a novel automated solution for exploration, extraction and pre-processing of ores found in inland flooded mines or in shallow sea waters, and will engage with all stakeholders to achieve environmental, economically and socially acceptable solutions to enable the exploitation of EU’s inland submerged mineral deposits.
Key research and innovation objectives of ¡VAMOS!:
- To develop a prototype underwater, remotely controlled, mining system with associated launch and recovery equipment and with the following sub-objectives
- To develop new, adapt and advance existing and finally integrate a set of technologies to overcome the limitations of currently available underwater sensing, spatial awareness, navigational and positioning technology in order to enable safe and reliable operation of the equipment in an enclosed and noisy mine environment – low visibility mining concept
- To provide an integrated solution for efficient real-time monitoring of environmental impacts
- To conduct field trials with the prototype equipment in abandoned and inactive mine sites with a range of rock types and at a range of submerged depths
- To evaluate the environmental performance, the economic feasibility, productivity and cost of operation
- To maximize positive social and economic impacts and enable the market up-take of ¡VAMOS! solutions by defining and overcoming the practicalities of the concept, proving the operational feasibility and the economic viability of the proposed technique
- To contribute to social acceptance of the new extraction technique via public demonstrations in different EU regions, combined with public outreach and dissemination on new mining alternatives