{"id":11850,"date":"2021-05-21T14:54:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T13:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=11850"},"modified":"2021-05-21T15:24:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T14:24:37","slug":"developing-technologies-for-fine-mineral-particle-processing-and-recycling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/developing-technologies-for-fine-mineral-particle-processing-and-recycling\/11850\/","title":{"rendered":"Developing technologies for fine mineral particle processing and recycling"},"content":{"rendered":"
One of the biggest challenges that the raw material industry faces is treating mineral and metalliferous fine-grained materials. Novel, energy-efficient, and groundbreaking separation\/beneficiation technologies are needed to shift the current mining paradigm towards exploiting natural mineral deposits that are very fine-grained (below 20\u03bcm particle size).<\/p>\n
FineFuture is an EU funded project aimed at developing ground-breaking technological solutions for significantly improving fine particle flotation based on new scientific knowledge. Separating very fine particles is essential for the valorisation of multiple mineral and metalliferous resources (e.g. copper, nickel, iron, lead, zinc, fluorite, kaolinite, feldspar, magnesite, REE, tungsten, tin, graphite, etc.) and will help to secure both global sales by European companies and the production of Critical Raw Materials (CRMs) within Europe. CRMs define raw materials of high importance to the EU economy which have a high risk associated with their supply. Shortage in the supply of CRMs would hinder economic growth in rapidly developing industrial areas such as energy storage systems and other emerging technologies.<\/p>\n