Key Enabler for a Sustainable Circular Economy of Minerals and Metals
The Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology (HIF) pursues the objective of developing innovative technologies for the economy so that mineral and metalliferous raw materials can be made available and used more efficiently and recycled in an environmentally friendly manner. The institute is a constituent part of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf. It researches within the Materials and Technologies for the Energy Transition Program of the Helmholtz Association. HIF works in close collaboration with TU Bergakademie Freiberg and is a core member of the European EIT RawMaterials network.
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Deceptively critical sphalerite
Sphalerite is a trickster with the ability to incorporate a range of elements. Max Frenzel and Sam Thiele explain how sphalerite can be used to explore ore-forming environments.
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PDAC Convention 2 - 5 March 2025
The Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) is the leading voice of the mineral exploration and development community. As every year, HIF will be an exhibitor of the PDAC.
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Research Highlight
FlexiPlant - The research infrastructure for recycling 4.0
One of the challenges confronting our society today is the sustainable use of our resources. To recover raw materials energy efficiently we strive to develop a research infrastructure that serves as platform for a new generation of adaptive, flexible, and digital technologies for the processing and recycling.
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