1st MRN meeting was held on 27.05.2011. The meeting was organized by the Department of Mining, Tallinn University of Technology. The coordinator of Estonian MRN is Tallinn University of Technology, Department of Mining.
Our 1st MRN meeting was attended by 25 people from mining enterprises, R&D institutions dealing with mining and processing waste management, and local government.
The aim of the meeting was to present ideas and assumptions of the MIN-NOVATION project and give interesting lectures. The first part of the meeting was an overview of the MIN-NOVATION project task, opportunities and following activities – given by Veiko Karu. The second part was an introduction of Department of Mining and R&D in mining given by Professor Ingo Valgma, Karin Robam and Ain Anepaio. The third part of the meeting was lectures by invited lecturers. The lecturers were selected to cover the topic of R&D in mining field and waste management. The subjects were following: “ALLU – screening and crushing” by Aarne Priks from Avelin-AP Ltd, Fredrik Dromberg and Ilpo Ellonen from Allu Finland; “Horizontal Directional Drilling” by Anton Timofejev from Vermeer Technics-Baltic Ltd and “Surface miner experience in Australia” by Mati Ertsen from Wirtgen Estonia.
Reports, minutes of meeting, surveys, and other meeting materials are available on the Web: http://mi.ttu.ee/min-novation
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MIN-NOVATION Mining and Mineral Processing Waste Management Innovation Network
http://mi.ttu.ee/min-novation/
