Overview of 6th MRN meeting in Estonia

Min-Novation meeting was held on June 5, 2012. The meeting was organized by the Department of Mining, Tallinn University of Technology.

Min-Novation meeting was attended by 23 people from mining enterprises, Ministry of the Environment and Department of Mining.

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 dealt with MIN-NOVATION project topics in a talk given by Veiko Karu. After Veiko Karu, Ingo Valgma gave presentation “Mining activities in Norway” and introduced journal “Mining and Environment”. Then had Kalle Pirk presentation “Competence centre of oil shale”. The first part of the meeting ended with a presentation by Viktor Undusk from VKG “Backfilling technologies in oil shale mines”.

Heidi Soosalu started the second part of the meeting by giving an overview talk “Mine collapses in NE Estonia – detection, identification and causes”. Then gave Ülo Sõstra an overview talk “Tectonics of the continental and offshore territory of Estonia and its structural evolution in Proterozoic and Phanerozoic”. This was followed by presentations by doctoral students Aleksander Pototski and Merle Otsmaa.

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