As part of the EU-funded RAWMINA project, Spanish mining company, Cobre Las Cruces (CLC), will test new technologies that seek to extract cobalt, tungsten, gold, and silver from mine waste.

As part of the EU-funded RAWMINA project, Cobre Las Cruces (CLC) is to test new technologies that seek to extract cobalt, tungsten, gold and silver from mine waste.

The technologies are designed to extract metals such as cobalt, tungsten, gold and silver.

The pioneering project is aimed at extracting Critical Raw Materials (CRM) from European mine waste.

As part of the EU-funded RAWMINA project, Spanish mining company, Cobre Las Cruces (CLC), will test new technologies that seek to extract cobalt, tungsten, gold, silver from mine waste.

RAWMINA attended the EIT Raw Materials Summit in Brussels (May 2024), participating in a Crowdhelix organised workshop focused on accelerating circular strategies in the raw materials and steel industries.

This webinar was a jointly hosted activity by the RAWMINA and CRM-geothermal projects, both funded under the Horizon Europe programme.

In December 2023, the European Union adopted the Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA) to secure essential resources for its energy transition and strategic sectors like aerospace and healthcare

Bioleaching is a hydrometallurgical process using microorganisms to extract metals from rocks. Even if it is slower than some other chemical leaching technologies, bioleaching offers several advantages compared to conventional metallurgical processes, such as lower energy and chemical consumption, lower CO2 footprint and lower capital and operational costs.