Study Tour with partners from Finland, 29.05.2012

MIN-NOVATION project partners from Finland Kainuun Etu and University of Oulu are visiting TUT Department of Mining. Together take the technical tour in Estonian mining sites. Guides are TUT Mining Department teaching assistant Veiko Karu and docent Heidi Soosalu. See overview of first day.

 Oil shale waste rock heap in Kukruse

From Study Tour in Estonia, 27...30.05.2012

Oil shale museum in Kukruse

From Study Tour in Estonia, 27...30.05.2012

Kiikla heat pump is using mine water for heat source

From Study Tour in Estonia, 27...30.05.2012

Project manager of Kiikla heat pump

From Study Tour in Estonia, 27...30.05.2012

Oil shale waste rock heap in Ahtme

From Study Tour in Estonia, 27...30.05.2012

Samples from Estonia (mining waste)

From Study Tour in Estonia, 27...30.05.2012

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MIN-NOVATION partners from Finland in TUT Department of Mining, 27-30.05.2012

MIN-NOVATION project partners from Finland are visiting TUT Department of Mining. Together take the technical tour in Estonian mining sites. Guides are TUT Mining Department teaching assistant Veiko Karu and docent Heidi Soosalu.

 

Partners from Finland are Kainuun Etu and University of Oulu.

 

MIN-NOVATION is a European Union Baltic Sea Region project “Mining and Mineral Processing Innovation Network for Small- and Medium-sized Enterprises in Waste Technologies”. Project partners are from Poland, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Estonia.

MIN-NOVATION aims to create a trans-national network with regional networks as building blocks of effective multi-lateral cooperation. The activities carried out on the regional and transnational level will secure better access to knowledge, state-of-the-art technologies and good practice to SMEs (small and medium enterprices) active in the mineral waste management & prevention sector. The project will address all the waste management challenges and opportunities which face the Baltic Sea Region mining industry, which should be understood as extending to all forms of extraction of natural non-renewable resources. 

MIN-NOVATION Baltic network (MBN) has set up with the essential role of facilitating diffusion of knowledge and good practices between regions. This will involve providing transnational feedback to regional issues, and elevating cross-regional issues to status of transnational priority areas.

MIN-NOVATION project is part R&D activity in Department of Mining and is related to the study of AR12007 – „Sustainable and environmentally acceptable Oil shale mining“; „Mining and Mineral Processing Waste Management Innovation Network“ VIR491 - mi.ttu.ee/min-novation; „Backfilling and waste management in Estonian oil shale industry“, GRANT8123 - mi.ttu.ee/ETF8123

Additional information

Veiko Karu, Department of Mining

veiko.karu@ttu.ee

http://mi.ttu.ee/min-novation/  

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http://mi.ttu.ee/min-novation/

Technical tour in Finland, 20...30. November 2011

Estonian MIN-NOVATION team was carried out a Technical Tour in Finland. Participants were professor Ingo Valgma, teaching assistant Veiko Karu, specialists Raili Kukk, Maris Leiaru, Ain Anepaio. For the summary seminar in Aalto University also docent Heidi Soosalu was participating.

Visited places:
- Outokompu mining region and museum
- Siilinjärvi mining region
- Cemis, research and development for mining industry
- Talvivaara mine
- Agnico Eagle Mines, Kittilä underground mine and open pits
- Nordkalk OY Vampula limestone open pit and plant
- Meteor museum
- Volcano museum
- Aalto University

In Aalto University was cooperation meeting and seminar between Aalto University Rock Engineering department and Tallinn University of Technology Department of Mining.
Discussed topics were:
- Professor Ingo Valgma "Tallinn University of Technology and Department of Mining research, studies and development"
- Teaching assistant Veiko Karu "Min-Novation project, Technical Tour in Finland"
- Professor Mikael Rinne "Aalto University and Rock Engineering Department"
- Docent Heidi Soosalu "Doctoral studies"
- Specialist Raili Kukk "Mining and geology science club"
- Specialist Maris Leiaru "ALLU and REMU crushing and sieving bucket tests in Estonia"
- Pekka Eloranta "Laboratory in Rock Engineering Department"
- Specialist Ain Anepaio "Alumni who works abroad"
- Otto Hedström "Underground laboratory"

Technical Tour in Finland was supported by MIN-NOVATION project and ERASMUS Staff Exchange.

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