EO miners

The aim of EO-MINERS is to bring into play EO (Earth observation) based methods and tools to facilitate and improve interaction between the mineral extractive industry and society in view of its sustainable development while improving its societal acceptability.

The social acceptability of a mining project, from exploration to closure, is among the major key issues to be dealt with. EO-MINERS scientific and technical objectives are to:

• assess policy requirements at macro (public) and micro (mining companies) levels and define environmental, socio-economic, societal and sustainable development criteria and indicators to be possibly dealt using Earth Observation (EO);

• use existing EO knowledge and carry out new developments on demonstration sites to demonstrate the capabilities of integrated EO-based methods and tools in monitoring, managing and contributing reducing the environmental and societal footprints of the extractive industry during all phases of a mining project and

• contribute making available reliable and objective information about affected ecosystems, populations and societies, to serve as a basis for a sound “trialogue” between industrialists, governmental organisations and stakeholder.

The EO-Miners website contains detailed descriptions of the project as well as downloadable material of the deliverables including the results of studes in South Africa, the Czech Republic and Kyrgyzstan.

Website:

http://www.eo-miners.eu/prelim_results/pr_introduction.htm

Date (Creation): 2013-01-01

Date (Publication): 2013-01-01

Date (Revision)

Citation identifier: https://www.mica-project.eu/ / MICA_B2-36
MICA WP3 2017-09-25T10:33:00 Record extracted from Batch 2 spreadsheet

Other citation details: No additional information provided about the dataset

Purpose: Purpose for data generation is not known

Status: Completed

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
European Commission			Resource provider

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

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Requirement for data generation: Voluntary

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Method of data or information generation: Expert consultation

GEMET Concepts

Environmental pollution

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Geochemical

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Geology

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Imagery base maps earth cover

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Mineralogical

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Minerals

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Monitoring environmental risk

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Production

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Sciences dealing with the composition, structure, origin of the Earth's rocks

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Society

INSPIRE commodities

Gold

INSPIRE commodities

Anthracite

INSPIRE commodities

Bituminous coal

INSPIRE Fossil Fuel

Other hard coal

INSPIRE commodities

Lignite