The role of science in developing (recovery) concepts for mining waste

The recomine alliance works on several concepts for remediation of mining waste. With 5 different fiel laboratories they work on remediation technologies for mining legacies. However, these technologies work as well in active mining and may improve current mining activities. The constant interaction of companies from the recomine alliance with leading research institutions allowed to upscale several technologies for remediating mining waste and gaining raw materials at the same time. The talk provides an overview of the recomine activities and their overarching fourfold strategy in significantly reducing the volume of mining waste by (1) analyzing, avoiding (2), re-mine, (3) and (4) transforming mining waste.