The DEMINE Tool is an excel running tool that has been developed to help environmental managers in industry and administrations in the decision on the best technology for the management of waste effluents, considering several impact categories...
Read moreThe DEMINE’s final meeting was held in Frongoch mine
On the 31st of May, all project partners met in the DEMINE’s final meeting organised by ELENTEC and UVIC to review the status of the different project actions. The meeting was held in a touristic facility near the Frongoch abandoned mine, where...
Read moreLIFE DEMINE Open Days Celebrated, a way to demonstrate METP efficiency and applicability
LIFE DEMINE project has had the commitment of demonstrating to end-users the capabilities and performance of Mining Effluent Treatment Process (METP) for treating the effluents form abandoned mining activities, as foreseen in the LIFE DEMINE...
Read moreNew experiment running in BETA Tech Center
A new experiment for assessing the ecological improvement of METP is running un the BETA Tech Center. Schluesselstollen is a mining tunnel for drainage of the former Mansfeld copper shale district in Saxony-Anhalt, a copper mining area in...
Read moreNew LIFE DEMINE project meeting!
The 13th of December all project partners met in an on-line meeting, due to the COVID-19 situation, to review the project actions progress since the last project meeting. Specifically, we reviewed the general technical status of the project...
Read moreDidactic activity in Asturias to spread the environmental problem targeted and the benefits of the DEMINE technology
The Principality of Asturias, in north-western Spain, is a region with a long mining tradition and coal mining has been the economical motor of the region for centuries. However, nowadays around 200 mines are abandoned. Many of these mines were...
Read moreSustainability assessment of the LIFE DEMINE technology: how it works?
In the context of action C1, the Sustainability Accounting and Optimization team of BETA Technological Centre (Uvic-UCC) has performed the preliminary assessment for the environmental sustainability of DEMINE technology. This evaluation was...
Read moreNew review meeting of the LIFE DEMINE project
On Tuesday 4 May 2021 all project partners and our project monitor, Irune Osés, met in an on-line meeting (due to the COVID-19 situation) organized by FUB to review the project actions progress since the last review meeting (June 2020)...
Read morePilot plant performance evaluation during the COVID-19 and new demonstration site in Germany
The crisis caused by COVID–19 has also influenced the progress of the LIFE DEMINE project. Mobility restricitons due to the COVID-19 pandemic started a year ago when the pilot plant of the LIFE DEMINE project was countinuosly operating in...
Read more7th LIFE DEMINE Project (virtual) meeting: Adapting the LIFE DEMINE project to the COVID era.
The 13th of November all LIFE DEMINE project partners met in an on-line meeting (due to the COVID-19 situation) organized by BETA Technological Centre (University of Vic) to review the technical and financial status of the LIFE DEMINE project...
Read moreAn ecological experiment to assess the effects caused by an hypersaline mining effluents on freshwater ecosystems at different concentrations.
In the context of Action B3, the BETA Technological Center have performed an experiment in artificial streams to evaluate the effects of an hypersaline mining effluent on freshwater ecosystems at different concentrations, using the aquatic...
Read morePilot plant operation in Frongoch
In October 2019, the LIFE DEMINE pilot plan began its operation at the first demonstration site, Frongoch abandoned mine (Wales, UK). The pilot plant will be continuosly operating in Frongoch until June 2020, when it will be deployed to the...
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