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.
Photos from Technical Tour:
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Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Report from 3rd MIN-NOVATION Baltic Network meeting in Finland
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3rd
MIN-Novation Baltic Network meeting
November 21
– November 24, 2011
Vuokatti/Finland
Vuokatti/Finland
Host organization
Kainuun Etu
1.
Welcome and meeting
agenda
Antti Toivanen, CEO of Kainuun Etu Ltd., welcomed the meeting
participants, and spoke briefly about the R&D, industrial and tourist
opportunities available in the Kainuu region.
2.
Guest presentations
– Professor Manuel Regueiro and Harry Sandström
Highlights from Professor Manuel Regueiro’s
presentation:
Ø “Mining is primarily a waste management business”. Improved waste
management can lead to increased profits and project viability in the case of
new developments.
Ø One of the main goals of the EU Raw Materials
Initiative is to enhance the recycling of raw materials and resource efficiency.
Ø The European Technology Platform on Sustainable
Mineral Resources has as one of its target research areas the development of an
industrial network on waste prevention and recycling aimed at turning wastes
into products, including new technological processes for the treatment of
complex waste, such as dust, tailings and residues. The Platform also is
interested in effective approaches to protecting ground and surface water
quality, including novel ways of treating acid mine drainage and recovering
contained metals.
Ø The Innovation Partnership’s 2020 targets include
developing new European-based recycling activities (mostly run by SMEs) and
demonstrating 10 innovative pilot plants for raw materials extraction and
processing and recycling.
Ø The European Technology Platform on Sustainable
Mineral Resources, The Innovation Partnership and the EU Raw Materials
Initiative are guided by the same overarching objective which is to ensure that
the supply of minerals for European industry is secured, both in terms of
domestic extraction and foreign supply.
Highlights from Harry Sandström’s presentation:
Ø Finland
Ø The beneficiaries of the Programme are businesses as
well as research organisations
Ø Some of the eligibility criteria include international
R&D partners (for public research projects) and SME involvement (in
business-led projects). Right now, Sweden
and Australia
Ø A 60 mln € budget for 2011-2016, funding available as
grants (businesses and R&D organisations) or as loans (to businesses).
Ø As of September 2011, Finland
Ø Exploration for new mining sites in Finland
Ø Turnover of the mining sector in Finland
3.
MBN meeting - MRN
Meetings
Summaries of the presentations on MRN activities follow:
a.
AGH, UPPER SILESIAN AGENCY FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROMOTION and the FOUNDATION FOR LOWER SILESIAN MINERAL RESOURCES
CLUSTER: Justyna Adamczyk informed
that the 3rd MRN meeting focused on two issues: new technologies and
waste products as a result of public-private cooperation between mining waste
management companies in the region AND the rules and regulations governing the
waste-to-product process. A guest speaker from the Gliwice County
b.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION OF EMPLOYERS ASSOCIATION OF SAXONY-ANHALT (BDU): The
3rd MRN meeting identified 5 potential recyclable residues. Stefan
Kreisel also informed that the participants also agreed that a master plan
for the industrial use of these residues will be drawn up. BDU in another
EU-funded project (ReSource) is pursuing the topic of geothermal usage of
mining waters, and plans to advance this topic in MIN-NOVATION (a geo-thermal
working group has already been created for this purpose during the 1st/2nd
MRN meeting).
c.
TALLINN TECHNICAL
UNIVERSITY Estonia
d.
KAINUUN ETU and OULU UNIVERSITY: Hanna Repo related the results of
the 3rd/4th MRN meeting (November 9th), which gave
an introduction to R&D in the field of mining waste management, classification
of mining waste and information on the pilot project – the mobile stone and
extractive laboratory unit. It was decided that in January an R&D funding
workshop will be organised which will familiarise businesses with funding
opportunities available in Finland Oulu University
e.
UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER
f.
UNIVERSITY OF ÖREBRO
4.
MBN meeting - SME database
Veiko Karu presented an overview of the planned Baltic
SME database. Data has been gathered thus far for 570 mining waste management
businesses from the 6 MIN-NOVATION countries. Veiko presented the type of
outputs that the final database could offer (table on web; PDF outputs on web;
interactive database).
5.
MBN meeting - Work
Package 4
Mattias Bäckström outlined the tasks to be
completed in WP4. The work package officially began in October 2011 and will go
on until December 2012. Mattias focused on the first task – compendium on
mining waste management. Each partner needs to start gathering information on
the waste streams, processing methods, product types and customer categories
for the businesses involved in the MRN and those in the region. Within two
weeks Mattias will send templates to gathering those information. Another
necessary step to make the compendium a reality is to make a preliminary
inventory of the type of mineral waste present in the region (volume, content
etc.). Finally a literature review and references. Mattias provided a sample
waste inventory and categorisation in his presentation.
6.
MBN meeting -
Communications
Piotr Szmigielski gave an overview of select communication
issues.
7.
Project Steering
Committee – Introduction
Professor Marek Cała chaired
the Project Steering Committee and announced the agenda. Professor Marek Cała reviewed the financial and essential progress of
each of the partners.
8.
Next meeting
The next project meeting will take place in Stavanger , Norway
on April 25-27 and will be hosted by the University of Stavanger
9.
Meeting adjournment
The project meeting was
concluded on Tuesday evening, and followed by tours on Wednesday of the Mobile
Laboratory Unit of Kajak, the Centre for Measurement
and Information Systems (CEMIS) and the Talvivaara Mining
Company.
Photos from MBN meeting in Finland:
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Friday, November 18, 2011
MIN-NOVATION Baltic Region meeting and technical tour in Finland, 20...30 November 2011
MIN-NOVATION Baltic Region meeting and technical tour in Finland, 20...30 November 2011
From TUT Department of Mining will be represented by professor Ingo Valgma, teaching assistant Veiko Karu and specialists Raili Kukk, Maris Leiaru and Ain Anepaio
Additional information
Veiko Karu, Department of Mining
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Thursday, October 20, 2011
3rd MIN-NOVATION Regional Network meeting in Estonia, 20.10.2011
The
3rd MRN meeting was held on
20.10.2011. The meeting was organized by the Department of Mining, Tallinn
University of Technology. The coordinator of Estonian MRN is the Department of
Mining, Tallinn University of Technology.
The aim of the meeting was to
present ideas of the MIN-NOVATION project and give interesting lectures.
MIN-NOVATION project topics were given by Veiko Karu. The last 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
the following: “Copper industry wastes in Germany” by Ain Anepaio,
Department of Mining; “Baltic Sea Region enterprises catalog” by Raili Kukk, Department of Mining; “Chemical
compounds analysis of rocks” by Maria
Kulp, Department of Chemistry; “Current trends in the world mining industry
(an overview of the meeting in Peru)” by Ingo Valgma, Department of Mining; “SANDVIK
– crushers, screeners” by Veiko
Kirs, Actual Baltic Ltd; “Crushing and screening bucket tests in Estonia oil
shale mine” by Veiko
Karu, Maris
Leiaru and Raili
Kukk, Department of Mining.
Reports, minutes of meeting,
surveys, and other meeting materials are available on the Web
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The
3rd MRN meeting was attended by 15
people from mining enterprises, R&D institutions dealing with mining and
processing waste management, and local governments.
The aim of the meeting was to
present ideas of the MIN-NOVATION project and give interesting lectures.
MIN-NOVATION project topics were given by Veiko Karu. The last 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
the following: “Copper industry wastes in Germany” by Ain Anepaio,
Department of Mining; “Baltic Sea Region enterprises catalog” by Raili Kukk, Department of Mining; “Chemical
compounds analysis of rocks” by Maria
Kulp, Department of Chemistry; “Current trends in the world mining industry
(an overview of the meeting in Peru)” by Ingo Valgma, Department of Mining; “SANDVIK
– crushers, screeners” by Veiko
Kirs, Actual Baltic Ltd; “Crushing and screening bucket tests in Estonia oil
shale mine” by Veiko
Karu, Maris
Leiaru and Raili
Kukk, Department of Mining.
Reports, minutes of meeting,
surveys, and other meeting materials are available on the Web
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| From 3rd MRN meeting Estonia, 20.10.2011 |
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Sunday, October 2, 2011
Newsletter No 3 October 2011
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Report from 2nd MIN-NOVATION Baltic Network meeting, 27.09.2011
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Report from the 2nd MIN-Novation Baltic Network meeting – Lutherstadt Eisleben, Germany
Between 21 – 23 September 2011 within the framework of Baltic Sea Region Programme 2007-2013 in Educational Institution of Employers Association of Saxony-Anhalt in Germany took place the 2nd MIN-NOVATION Baltic Network (MBN) meeting.
1. Welcome speeches and meeting agenda
The MIN-NOVATION project team was welcomed to by dr. Lutz Koch, vice president and CFO of the Educational Institution of Employers Association of Saxony-Anhalt (BdU). Next, the president of BdU, Mr. Hauschild, delivered a presentation on the mission and work of the BdU. Piotr Piwowarczyk followed with an overview of the meeting agenda.
2. MBN meeting
Veiko Karu of TUT, WP3 leader, introduced the goals of this round of the MBN. The aim was to take stock of the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of each MIN-NOVATION region, and try to find common issues in each category which can be elaborated on and be the focus of cross-regional collaboration and synergy in WP4 and beyond. To remind everyone about regional specificities and give an update on work performed by the MIN-NOVATION regional networks, each partner gave a presentation on their region and summarized the results of the SWOT analyses performed in the regions.
The highlights of these presentations were:
a. TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY: Estonia’s minerals sector is well developed and internationally recognized; however, there aren’t many incentives for managing mining waste and regulations don’t yet reflect the recognition of the value of mining waste as a resource that can be used and re-used.
b. KAINUUN ETU: The mining sector has received a boost with the launching of the Green Mining Programme. The sector itself is in good shape (new mines are being opened, international interest), although there is little in the way of cooperation between various sectoral stakeholders and thus far sustainability and mining life-cycle analysis have not been emphasized enough.
c. UPPER SILESIAN AGENCY FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROMOTION on behalf of three project regions: Upper Silesia, Lower Silesia and Małopolska: A large amount of mining waste and processing tailings is accumulated in landfills, waiting to be utilized. However, there are considerable legal and procedural hurdles which hamper business development in the area of mining waste management. Business development agencies need to do a better job of helping entrepreneurs and future business owners deal with the applicable laws and regulations.
d. ÖREBRO REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL: a strong regional market exists for crushed rock and closed mines represent an untapped resource for raw materials and new products. Concerns about the environmental impact of post-mining mineral recovery operations (including toxic materials entering the environment), the perception of historic waste as regional heritage to be preserved and not exploited, a legal and permitting environment, and the NIMBY syndrome all contribute to slowing down the process of regional development through mining waste management.
e. EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION OF EMPLOYERS ASSOCIATION OF SAXONY-ANHALT: despite the fact that a number of social and demographic factors are impacting the development perspectives of the Mansfeld-Südharz district, opportunities exist for job creation in the mining waste sector. Exploitation of copper mining residues is one source of growth, as is the use of the geothermal use of mining water. One of the challenges is to get the regional R&D centres on board to help drive economic opportunity in mining waste management.
f. UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER: a thriving petroleum sector in the Rogaland county has created waste management issues related to the disposal and re-use of waste material coming from petroleum recovery. Management of waste from zinc and titanium mining operations poses an additional challenge.
To facilitate the creation of a Baltic SWOT focused on the mining waste management sector, Veiko Karu split the participants into four groups, each group dealing with cross-regional issues which can be understood as common strengths, weaknesses, opportunities or threats.
The result was a draft Baltic SWOT. This draft document will serve as a basis for the preparation of a unified BSR report on key factors affecting growth and sustainability in the mining waste development sector.
3. SME catalogues
Veiko Karu presented an overview of the planned Baltic SME database and asked for input as to the layout, graphical user interface and expected functionality of the database. He noted the possibility of combining Excel and Access databases in this effort and showed a demo of what the SME database could involve. Piotr Piwowarczyk reminded the attendees to focus first and foremost on getting a list of SMEs from the region addressed in the project, while welcoming the idea of expanding the list to involve SMEs from the mining waste management sector active outside of the region as added value.
4. Other issues
Mattias Bäckström gave an introduction to WP4, which will focus on analysing the state of the art in mining waste management and finding paths to closer cooperation between innovation sources and SMEs. WP4 activities formally begin in October 2011.
5. Meeting adjournment
The project meeting was concluded on Thursday afternoon, and followed by tours on Thursday evening of the Wettelrode tourist mine and on Friday morning - the former smelting plant at Helbra and the Mansfeld Museum.
Wettelrode mine:
Smelting plant at Helbra
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| From MBN meeting Germany, 21-23 September 2011 |
6. Next meeting
The next project meeting will take place in Vuokatti, Finland on November 21-24 and will be hosted by Kainuun Etu.
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011
MIN-NOVATION Baltic Region meeting in Germany, 21...23 septemer 2011
From TUT Department of Mining will be represented by teaching assistant Veiko Karu and specialists Raili Kukk and Ain Anepaio
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 project is part R&D activity in Department of Mining and is related to the study of “Conditions of sustainable mining”, GRANT7499 - mi.ttu.ee/ETF7499; „Backfilling and waste management in Estonian oil shale industry“, GRANT8123 - mi.ttu.ee/ETF8123
Additional information
Veiko Karu, Department of Mining
Information at TUT webpage: estonian ja english
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