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NEXT will develop new geomodels and novel sensitive exploration technologies which together are fast, cost-effective, environmentally safe and potentially socially accepted.
The project is built on three pillars of technological advances: (1) Mineral systems modeling, (2) exploration methods and approaches as well as (3) data processing and data integration tools. NEXT will combine the knowledge derived from the geological mineral systems research with the new advanced exploration techniques. The development of data analysis techniques is a crucial step in getting most out of the vast exploration data with lower costs and better accuracy. With these principles in mind, NEXT is taking steps toward more efficient and economically and environmentally sustainable mineral exploration. This will eventually lead into better success rate in exploration and new discoveries, which is important for the raw materials supply for European industrial development now and in the future.
Economy related: Exploration at lowest possible costs and identification of new exploration targets
Technology related: Integrated approach of novel and more sensitive exploration technologies and solutions
Policy related: Recommendations to feed the EU Raw Materials Strategie Implementation Plan
Environment related: Environmentally sound and sustainable by reducing the exploration footprint
Society related: lmproving awareness and trust of society to a sustainable raw materials exploration ultimately targeting the safeguarding of existing employment and creating further new employment opportunities
How innovative solutions and concepts will foster exploration success in Europe and beyond? On 15. September, ...
On 15. September, representatives from Finland, France, Germany, Malta, Spain and Sweden will reveal the concepts, technologies, methods and data tools discovered by the NEXT Project. The event will be organized as online event.
The aim of the NEXT final event is to present and discuss innovative exploration concepts and technologies that can be optimized for diverse mineral systems and for a variety of geographical areas in the EU. Together these will extend the existing knowledge of European mineral resources, will help secure the domestic supply of both major commodities and critical raw materials, and will launch socio-environmental innovation approaches in the mining industry.
The event will bring together anybody interested in the results of the NEXT project, including the participants of EU projects related to mineral exploration; mining and mineral exploration companies, governmental authorities, universities, NGOs and other stakeholders in order to:
Date: Wednesday 15.09.2021
Time: 13.00 - 17.00 (CET)
Venue: online
Registration deadline: 14.09.2021, 14.00 CET
Agenda: Download Agenda
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The maximum number of participants in Nancy is limited. Registrations will be considered on a first-come, first-served basis.
The event brings the opportunity to share new knowledge and showcase the new exploration technologies that have been developed by the NEXT project.
Stakeholder workshop addressed to high-level policy makers, organized actors and interest groups at the European level.
A first session will bring pitch-style presentations on new insights in how mineral deposits are formed, advances in mineral predictive mapping as well as a new generation of drones equipped with a novel electromagnetic survey system, which was picked up by the European Commission’s Innovation Radar. Furthermore, a new on-line mapping tool will be presented which is intended to efficiently explore potential synergies, optimize your clustering and strategy thinking. The mapping tool has been implemented directly on the Cordis repository which provides information on all EU-supported R&D activities, including H2020, FP7 and earlier programmes, individual projects, results and publications.
A second session will focus on the Social License to Explore (SLE) in which the outcomes will be shared of surveys and interviews conducted in case studies in both Finland and Sweden with a view to better understand the factors affecting local attitudes to SLE. The Social License to Operate (SLO) Guidelines for Europe and its accompanying Toolbox produced by the Horizon 2020 Mining and metallurgy regions of EU (MIREU) project will also be presented. These insights are at the basis of the development of the NEXT Toolkit which has been designed to complement the MIREU SLO Toolbox and includes a wide range of material particularly useful to exploration companies.
The event will be organized as an online event between 14 and 16:30 pm (CET) on September 13, 2021.
In addition to exploration companies, the event should be of major interest to policy makers, organized actors and interest groups on the European level.
The agenda of the event together with the bio-notes of the presenters and this save-the-date announcement can be downloaded here: next-stakeholder-workshop_agenda-and-bionotes-of-presenters-v2.0-20210903.pdf.
To register your participation, please follow this link.
Talk on "New Exploration Technologies and Data Fusion – Innovations of the Horizon 2020 NEXT Project" by our Scientific Coordinator Vesa Nykänen on Thursday 12. August 11.20 CET
The SIMEXMIN has been designed to be the appropriate environment to foster interaction of industry professionals with the academia and government sectors to proactively discuss the future of mineral exploration and mining in Brazil.
Our Scientific Coordinator Vesa Nykänen (GTK) will give a talk about data fusion developed in NEXT on Thursday 12. August 11.20 CET.
Link to the conference website: adimb.org.br/simexmin2021/english
Download the event Program here: adimb.org.br/simexmin2021/wp-content/uploads/2021/ProgramacaoSimexmin2021.pdf
NEXT presents result on compositional modelling of element cycling in soil and plant organs
Goldschmidt is the foremost annual, international conference on geochemistry and related subjects, organized by the European Association of Geochemistry and the Geochemical Society.
NEXT will present statistical models based on the principles of compositional data analysis (CoDa-principle) to decipher in a multi-variate and multi-parameter data set the major factors for element cycling between soil and plants.
The second article in the three-part blog series about applying GisSOM for Clustering Multivariate Data has been published
GisSOM for Clustering Multivariate Data ‒ Multivariate Clustering and a Glance to Self-organizing Maps
What are multivariate datasets and self-organizing maps? And what do they have to do with geological data and machine learning? Johanna Torppa, Senior Specialist at GTK, explains in a three-blog series the possibilities of GisSOM software in the visualization and analysis of geological datasets.
Links:
1st BLOG Post on Multivariate Clustering and a Glance to Self-organizing Maps
The 3rd article on how to do SOM analysis in practice with an introduction to the software will be published soon around mid of October 2021 and can then be found on gtk.fi/en/current/category/blog
NEXT shares findings of its new exploration technologies applied to the Rajapalot test site in Finland
The exploration company Mawson who owns permits for exploration at Rajapalot in Finland is a partner in the EU funded Horizon 2020 New Exploration Technologies (NEXT) project. For this write-up we invited Nick Cook, Chief Geologist of Mawson Oy, to share his view and experiences about the new exploration technologies, which have been tested and validated at the Finnish gold exploration site.
Read the article here
In our new Policy Brief the factors affecting local attitudes to mineral exploration are discussed and recommendations given
The research results on a Social License to Explore (SLE) have been showing us the factors, which are affecting local attitudes to mineral exploration, and the importance of exploration technology, social and safety risks, and early participation of civil society at this stage.
Download the new document here
Transforming Regional-Scale Predictions to Target-Scale Detections – Empowered by Advanced Statistical and Machine Learning Methods
Mineral prospectivity analysis aims at distinguishing areas with high mineral potential from those with low potential. Subsequently to knowledge gained from mineral systems modeling, applying parametric and non-paramtetric statistical testing, we used both unsupervised and supervised machine learning methods for mineral prospectivity modeling. The unsupervised method used was self-organizing maps (SOM). This was implemented using the open source GisSOM application developed by GTK in the framework of the NEXT project.
One of the main conclusions from this study is that mineral prospectivity studies can be transformed from predictive tools at the regional scale to an aid to detection tools at the target scale for identifying targeted drilling areas.
For this latest write-up, we invited Bijal Chudasama, Postdoctoral Research Scientist and Johanna Torppa, Senior Scientist within the Information Solutions Unit at the Geological Survey of Finland (GTK) to guide us on the research.
Read the complete article here
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