RawMat2021
Topics
Minerals exploration and resource characterisation: new trends and advances
- Minerals prospecting
- Hydrocarbons exploration
- Raw materials resource assessment
- Advances in geostatistics, remote sensing and GIS applications in
minerals exploration and resource characterisation - Minerals and metals characterisation: novel methods and
techniques - Aggregates and natural stones characterisation
Mining: trends and perspectives
- Mine planning, scheduling and optimisation
- Investment planning, project evaluation and management
- Mine of the future and transition to Industry 4.0
- Smart mining: autonomous systems and the Internet of Things
- Mining in challenging environments
- Social and economic impact of mining
- Risk management in the mining sector
- Hydrocarbons extraction
- Aggregates: extraction, processing, uses and recycling
- Natural stones quarrying and processing methods
Mineral processing
- Advances – New equipment in ore beneficiation
- Processing of mining / metallurgical waste and end-of-life
products for metals recovery - Water management
Sustainable Metallurgy
- Advances in pyro-, hydro- and biohydro-metallurgy
- Recovery of elements from mining/metallurgical waste and byproducts
- New trends on critical and noble elements recovery from mining,
metallurgical and urban waste - Refractories: innovations and advances
- Computational thermodynamics and kinetics
- Electrometallurgy (electrorefining and electrowinning)
- Solvometallurgy
- Archaeometallurgy
- Industry 4.0
- Decarbonation of metallurgical processes
Industrial Minerals
- New processing technologies
- Advanced exploration techniques
- Recycling and reuse of industrial minerals: the circular economy
paradigm - Industrial clays and their applications
- Environmental applications, products, and technologies
- Construction industry applications
- Industrial minerals in pharmaceuticals and cosmetics
- Industrial minerals for the extraction of critical and strategic
metals
Environment, Energy and Sustainability
- Mining sites: environmental monitoring, assessment, and management
- Mine closure and land reclamation – Historical mine sites rehabilitation
- Mining in protected areas: ecosystems assessment, restoration, and management
- Social licensing for mining projects
- Risk analysis and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
- Mining/metallurgical waste management
- Waste characterisation and treatment of waste, effluents, soil and groundwater polluted by mining activities
- Nano-materials: technologies for environmental applications
- Carbon footprint of the raw materials value chain
- Energy savings in the mining and metallurgy sector
- Use of alternative fuels (renewables, hydrogen, etc.) in metallurgical plants
- Green minerals / wastes for energy storage
Reuse-Recycling and Valorisation
- New and innovative uses for by-products and waste of the mining/metallurgical Industry
- Industrial symbiosis
- Construction and demolition waste
- End-of-life products recycling
Education
- Future of education: artificial intelligence in education, ICT-based education
- Lifelong learning and mentoring
- STEM in geomaterials and metals teaching
- Geomaterials and metals in curriculum: Teaching Strategies
- Women in Geosciences and Geoengineering Education and Research
EU Strategy / Circular economy
- Critical and technologically important raw materials: current situation and prospects
- Roadmap for the transition to a circular economy
- Product design in the circular economy: substitution of critical and toxic raw materials
- Role of raw materials in the EU Green Deal and other initiatives – Decarbonation
- Resource efficiency in mineral and metallurgical processes
- New regulatory framework for EIAs and Strategic EIAs
Occupational Health and Safety (OHS)
- OHS hazards, identification, evaluation and control – emerging hazards
- OHS management systems, indicators and measurement techniques
- OHS culture building (leadership, motivation, education, training, inspection, auditing)
- Regulations of mine safety and health, safety compliance enhancement and productivity improvement
- Mine safety and health innovative technologies (robots and automation, proximity detection systems, wearable devices, RFID, drones, worksite simulators)
Greece-specific issues
- Present state and future of the Greek mining and metallurgical sector
- Role of SMEs and spin-offs in the mining and metallurgical sector
- Geothermal Energy in Greece
- Greek marble sector
- Mining history and minerals/stones used in antiquity
- The mining and metallurgical industry of Greece: Legislation, statistics and societal issues
- Greek type locality minerals