Newsletter Special Edition 2012

Newsletter Special Edition 2012 by Mäeinstituut

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MIN-NOVATION Mining and Mineral Processing Waste Management Innovation Network
http://mi.ttu.ee/min-novation/

Overview of 5th Regional meeting in Tallinn, 21.02.2012

Min-Novation meeting was held on 21 February 2012. The meeting was organized by the Department of Mining, Tallinn University of Technology.

Min-Novation meeting was attended by 30 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, Ott Talvik gave two presentations: “Evaluation of Local Aggregate Unbound Mixtures for Estonian Highway Base Courses” and “Using limestone fines in road construction, and trends”. The first part of the meeting ended with a brainstorming session “How can we use mining wastes?”

Jüri-Rivaldo Pastarus started the second part of the meeting by giving an overview talk “Methodology of Oil Shale mines backfilling”. This was followed by an invited lecture, presented by Mr. Klaus Neubrand from Putzmeister Solid Pumps GmbH “Transport of tailing for preparation of landfilling areas and backfilling of mines with Putzmeister hydraulically driven piston pumps”.

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MIN-NOVATION Regional Meeting, 21.02.2012

Tuesday, February 21 Estonian partners have the fifth regional meeting in TUT Department of Mining. At this meeting are the topics: testing of materials which used in road construction and possibilities of backfilling technology in Estonian oil shale mines.

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 “Conditions of sustainable mining”, GRANT7499 - mi.ttu.ee/ETF7499; „Backfilling and waste management in Estonian oil shale industry“, GRANT8123 - mi.ttu.ee/ETF8123.

News at TUT webpage

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MIN-NOVATION Mining and Mineral Processing Waste Management Innovation Network
http://mi.ttu.ee/min-novation/

Groundwater specialist from TUT participating in The 70th Scientific Conference of the University of Latvia

Groundwater specialist from TUT participating in The 70th Scientific Conference of the University of Latvia, Session of Geology.

Professor Rein Vaikmäe from TUT Institute of Geology and teaching assistant Veiko Karu from TUT Department of Mining participating in the 70th Scientific Conference of the University of Latvia. Conference agenda is here.

The topic are following in Geology session:
Professor Rein Vaikmäe: „The state of art and new trends in application of isotope-geochemistry for groundwater research“.
Teaching assistant Veiko Karu: „Water filled underground oil shale mines as a heat source“. This presentation is part of EU Baltic Sea Programme MIN-NOVATION Mining and mineral processing waste management innovation Network (http://mi.ttu.ee/min-novation).

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Newsletter No 4 January 2012

Newsletter No 4 January 2012 by

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4th MIN-NOVATION Regional Network meeting in Estonia, 16.12.2011

Min-Novation meeting was held on 16.12.2011. The meeting was organized by the Department of Mining, Tallinn University of Technology.

Min-Novation meeting was attended by 31 people from mining enterprises and the Department of Mining.

The aim of the meeting was to present ideas of the MIN-NOVATION project and give interesting lectures.

The first part of the meeting dealt with MIN-NOVATION project topics, given by Veiko Karu. He also gave an overview about the Finnish meeting and our technical excursion.

Next the director of the Innovation and Business Center of the Tallinn University of Technology, Tea Varrak presented the talk “Cooperation between TUT and companies”. The first part of the meeting ended with brainstorming teamwork on the pilot unit.

Ingo Valgma started the second part of the meeting. He gave an overview “Principles of selection of subjects for student work”. This was followed by lectures by invited PhD students. The subjects were the following: “Using the heat of mine water” by Veiko Karu, Department of Mining; “Equipping Kunda Nordic Cement Ltd with suitable raw material” by Riho Iskül, Kunda Nordic Cement Ltd; “Mineral processing and quality standards” by Julia Gulevitš, Kivikandur; “Sustainable Assessment in Mining Management” by Julija Šommet, Väo Paas OÜ; “Recovery of oil shale ash. Mass stabilization of unstable ground.” By Alexsander Pototski, Eesti Energia Narva Elektrijaamad Ltd; “Underground mining and post-technological processes” by Merle Otsmaa, Department of Mining.

Reports, minutes of meeting, surveys, and other meeting materials are available on the Web

From 4th MRN meeting in Estonia, 16 December 2011

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Cooperation meeting with JSC Dalmedras

On 15th December meeting between JSC Dalmedras and Department of Mining was held in Tallinn University of Technology. The aim was to discuss possibilities of cooperation. Department of Mining presented Min-Novation project and backfilling possibilities in future in Oil Shale mines. Director Dalius Ablingis and commercial director Gediminas Daukas introduced their interests in cooperation.

JSC Dalmedras are representatives of more than ten Germany Companies which dealing different equipments for industry for Baltic States. Next meeting will be held in January or February in 2012 and then will be introduced new technologies for mining industry.

More information http://mi.ttu.ee/mining, http://www.dalmedras.lt
Veiko Karu, veiko.karu@ttu.ee

Information at University webpage: estonian and english
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