The first scientific paper within the Life DEMINE project has been published in the Ecological Indicators journal. The main objective of the paper was to evaluate the efficiency of the technology proposed by the Life DEMINE project...
Read moreThe LIFE DEMINE video is already available!
This video summarises all the work done in the LIFE DEMINE project, and it includes a schematic description of the innovative technology developed to decrease the environmental impact caused by abandoned mines effluents in water bodies. You can...
Read moreLIFE DEMINE participated in the International MineXchange 2019 conference
The last 28 and 29th of November, Swansea University and ELENTEC attended the MineXchange conference in Aberystwyth University (Wales, UK) organized by Natural Resources of Wales and the Coal Authority. The objective of the MineXchange conference...
Read more5th Project meeting in Vic
The fifth meeting of the Life DEMINE project took place in Vic (Barcelona) on 13th and 14th November 2019. The meeting, that counted with the participation of the five partners of the project, was organized the University of Vic. During the...
Read moreSYMPOSIUM. Abandoned mines and water bodies: current status, environmental impacts and treatment options.
Within the framework of the LIFE DEMINE project, the BETA Technological Center from the University of Vic-Universitat Central de Catalunya organised a one-day symposium to explore the environmental impacts caused by abandoned mines on water...
Read moreLIFE DEMINE sampling campaign in Frongoch mine together with NRW
From 25th to 27th of September, BETA Technological Centre (Uvic-UCC) and Swansea University, together with Natural Resources of Wales (NRW), carried out a field sampling campaign around Frongoch mine, the LIFE DEMINE demonstration site, to get a...
Read moreAssessing the ecological effects of the hypersaline mining effluent from Menteroda
Lidia Vendrell Puigmitjà, a PhD student within the LIFE DEMINE project and member of BETA Technological Centre (Uvic-UCC), carried out a tree-month research stay at IRSTEA (National Institute for Environmental and Agricultural Science and...
Read moreLIFE DEMINE at the Symposia for European Freshwater Sciences (SEFS) 2011 in Zagreb (Croatia)
From 30th June to 5th July 2019, BETA Technological Centre attended at the SEFS11 conference organized by EFFS (European Federation for freshwater Sciences) in Zagreb (Croatia) to present the main results obtained in the LIFE DEMINE project...
Read moreThe 4th project meeting of LIFE DEMINE project
The 4th meeting of the LIFE DEMINE project took place at Swansea University facilities from 13th to 15th May 2019. The meeting, that count with the participation of the five partners of the project, was organized by Darren Oatley, from Swansea...
Read moreLIFE projects networking event in Global Omnium facilities
On Friday, April 12th, we attended the second LIFE project Networking event organized by the LIFE NEWEST project partnership in Valencia, at Global Omnium facilities. In this event, different LIFE projects in progress, including the LIFE DEMINE...
Read moreThe LIFE DEMINE project has created an open mining effluent database
Nowadays it is quite difficult to find relevant data about the composition of mining effluents from abandoned mines around Europe. This lack of information limits our current knowledge about the real environmental impact caused by these polluting...
Read moreLIFE DEMINE has been presented in the 1st SIBECOL conference
From 4th to 7th of February 2019, BETA Technological Centre attended the first conference organized by the SIBECOL, which was held in Barcelona. The conference aimed to be the kick-off of the Iberian Ecology Society (SIBECOL) a new scientific...
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