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INFACT’s geophysical exploration campaign in Andalusia using helicopter and drones took place in the first half of April 2019. These activities were carried out in two areas, one around Cobre Las Cruces in the Gerena-Guillena municipalities and the other in the...

It has been an incredible week for INFACT at the 2019 SAGA conference and exhibition in Durban, South Africa: Andrea Viezzoli from Aarhus Geophysics gave a keynote presentation on “IP effects demand rethinking the time-depth relationship and sensitivity in TDEM...

INFACT is a community of people working together to achieve a new vision for mineral exploration in Europe: a less invasive exploration that would take into account the proven technical performances of an exploration technology as well as its environmental footprint...

The Sustainable Mining 2019 (6th International Congress on Environmental and Social Responsibility in Mining) Conference held in Santiago, Chile was organised by GECAMIN and took place between the 9th and 11th September 2019. This conference was a perfect opportunity...

On 12-13th August, SRK Exploration organised the workshop “Addressing Environmental and Social Challenges of Mineral Exploration in Europe” in their Cardiff office. The workshop was facilitated by members of the SRK Consulting UK team. Participants came from GTK, KU...

This video shows a geological 3D model of Geyer, which is one of the three INFACT reference areas. Geyer is located in the Erzgebirge, a mountain range in eastern Germany. The region is known for its long mining history of ore deposits containing tin, zinc, tungsten,...

INFACT partner Andrea Viezzoli from Aarhus Geophysics recently gave a presentation on Airborne IP effects during the AGU-SEG Airborne Geophysics Workshop in Davie, Florida. In his presentation, Andrea explains the basic principles of Airborne IP effects in time domain...

Interdisciplinary, intercultural and committed attributes that describe the INFACT consortium as well as the participants, organizers and lecturers of the RESTORE (Researching Social Theories, Resources, and Environment) Summer School in Dublin. On the occasion of the...

Press release I July 2019 I The EU-funded INFACT project recently collected a set of new geoscience data through airborne electromagnetic (AEM) surveys in southern Spain. The Horizon 2020 project aims to develop first-of-its-kind European “reference sites” for...

Last week, INFACT project partners Tuija Mononen (UEF) and Ludger Benighaus (DIALOGIK) presented selected results from recent INFACT research on social acceptance of mining and mineral exploration at the annual “AIMS Future of mines conference 2019" in Aachen,...

The H2020 funded project MIREU, Mining and Metallurgy Regions of EU has organised on 5 and 6 June 2019 its 3rd SLO Workshop “Ensuring SLO is adaptive and resilient” at the Saxony Liaison Office in Brussels. Around 60 experts from the broad field of mining and mineral...

INFACT has been presented last week by Marko Komac (EFG President and INFACT WP leader on Dissemination and Outreach) at the annual meeting of the Austrian Mining Association BVÖ, held in Krems (Austria) from 28th to 29th May 2019. The meeting was attended by...

Two early-career geophysicists involved in INFACT - Joan Marie Blanco, HZDR and Jouni Nevalainen, OMS – have followed last week a training session on the processing of airborne electromagnetic (EM) data provided by Andrea Viezzoli in the premises of Aarhus Geophysics...

Richard Gloaguen, the scientific coordinator of INFACT, was invited to present the project at the Mines and Technology conference in Helsinki on 27 and 28 May 2019. Project partner Anglo American Sakatti is also represented at the event as a key actor of Finland's...

The INFACT project and Seequent recently made an agreement on the use of Leapfrog Geo software, a powerful 3D geological modelling tool enabling geologists of the project to make different hypotheses and improve their understanding of the very diverse geological...

As part of its data acquisition campaign at the Spanish reference site, the INFACT project has recently completed a VTEM Max survey in the area of Rio Tinto (Andalusia) which allowed to acquire 195 km of data. Complementary with these data collection efforts, a public...

These days, the INFACT project team is extremely busy in Andalusia, in the south of Spain, pursuing its efforts to set up a reference site in the area of Seville. Similarly to the activities performed at the Finnish and German sites in summer 2018, this encompasses,...

Press release I April 2019 I Along with two other European reference regions – Saxony in Germany, and Lapland in Finland – the Spanish region Andalusia is participating in the EU-funded INFACT project which aims at combining the development and test of innovative,...

On 28 and 29 March, at the Las Cruces mine[1] north of Seville in Andalusia, a seismic network of 132 geophones covering an area of about 1 x 2 km was installed for one month to register ambient seismic noise. This configuration will be used to see through and map a...

PDAC, the World’s Premier Mineral Exploration & Mining Convention, is an annual conference attracting exhibitors, investors, analysts, mining executives, geologists and government officials from all over the world. From 3 to 6 March, the show has gathered more...

In this new edition of the INFACT newsletter you can read about: The INFACT consortium meeting - outcomes and lessons learned INFACT - key numbers and current status after Year 1 Where to meet the project team this spring? Next steps - INFACT campaign in Spain You can...

During the final week of January 2019, the INFACT project assembled for its yearly consortium meeting. This time it was held at the Finnish Environment Institute, in Helsinki, Finland, where we assessed our work in the first year and started preparing for the coming...

The quality and overlap of technical data acquired within the INFACT project will provide a unique research resource for innovative integration of these data. Hosted by EIT Raw Materials, the INFACT project is therefore organising a Data Integration Workshop in...

Periodic project consortium meetings allow to review the progress on project tasks and enhance networking among the partners. This was also the overarching aim for the INFACT team which met in Helsinki, Finland, at the end of...

On 23 January 2019, the INFACT project has been presented at the INTMET Clustering Conference - Fostering Innovation in the Iberian Pyrite Belt. The aim of this clustering event organised by the INTMET project was to facilitate the meeting of innovation agents and the...

INFACT is a Horizon2020 project funded by the EU to investigate the barriers to mineral exploration in Europe. Part of this involves establishing three Reference Sites for mineral exploration methods. These will be permanently available to use for testing, calibrating...

The INFACT project is developing and testing sustainable minerals exploration technologies with the active engagement of stakeholders. For this purpose, flight campaigns took place in the project's Finnish and German reference regions last summer. INFACT has recently...

EFG President-elect Marko Komac has presented the INFACT project on 6 December 2018 during the 10th Annual Meeting of the Indonesian Society of Economic Geologists (MGEI) in Makassar, Indonesia. The conference was attended by more than 150 persons and a lively debate...

On 26 November 2018, an expert workshop on “Mining and Development” has been organised by project partner Asistencias Técnicas CLAVE close to INFACT’s Spanish reference site in Seville. The workshop has been organised within the scope of the project’s stakeholder...

During early October, the ground acquisition of EM data took place near Gerena (Spain) in an area under permission of Cobre Las Cruces Mine (First Quantum Minerals). This site is one of the two in Spain where the INFACT Project will acquire airborne geophysical data,...

Each year, the European Commission organises the European Union’s Raw Materials Week in Brussels to discuss the important challenge Europe is facing to secure the supply of mineral raw materials. Its third edition started the 12th of November and it will finish the...

Weather delays and previous commitments with stakeholders in Germany caused data acquisition with the ZTEM™ system in Finland to be postponed. Therefore, our pilot/helicopter as well as Geotech’s crew travelled to Germany as the campaign moved into...

After the aeromagnetic acquisition with the Jessy Star system (Supracon) finished, Geotech proceeded to test and fly their Versatile Time-domain EM system (VTEM™ ET), but their work in Sodankylä started days before that. Garth, Armand, and Ben...

During our stay at the Finish Lapland we paid a visit to Viiankiaapa, a 65.95 km2 EU Natura 2000 and International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) special protected area. Viiankiaapa’s ecosystem is a bog, or wetland waterlogged only by...

After the first post you probably wondered what’s our role among the INFACT project partners. INFACT is coordinated by the Helmholtz Institute Freiberg (HIF), where I currently work.  Our HIF team in Finland is formed by Leila, an energetic,...

For some people at the Sodankylä airport in Finland it was a regular day at the job, whether it consisted on taking a helicopter to fly for a new mission, assembling sensors for an airborne geophysical acquisition campaign, inspecting the helicopter to...

Press release I July 2018 I The EU-funded INFACT project aims at combining the development and test of innovative, non-invasive minerals exploration technologies with an assessment of their social acceptance. For this purpose, three European reference sites will be...

Since the project beginning, in November 2017, the INFACT consortium partners have analysed the reputation and attitudes towards mining and mineral exploration in Europe, and more particularly in the three reference regions. A literature review has shown that mining...

INFACT aims at combining the development and test of innovative, non-invasive minerals exploration technologies with an assessment of their social acceptance. For this purpose, three reference sites will be established in Germany (Geyer), Finland (Sakatti) and Spain...

On 2 and 3 June 2018 the INFACT project partners met in Seville, Spain, with the aim to start the process of developing a Business Model for Exploration Phase. The workshop was organised by project partner IDEA and attended by 12 local and regional stakeholders,...

On 5 June 2018, the European Commission’s Executive Agency for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (EASME) hosted a workshop about the “Social Acceptance in the European Raw Materials Sector” in Brussels. The aim of this event was to gather participants of Horizon2020...

The INFACT project’s Operational Team met in Wolkenstein, Germany, from the 16th until the 18th of April 2018 in order to review the work carried out so far and discuss further steps ahead. INFACT is an EU-funded project that started last November 2017. The 3-years...

In the framework of the Horizon 2020 funded INFACT project, the project coordinator, Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology (HIF) at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, is looking for a research associate/postdoc in the field of geophysics. The...

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In the framework of the EU-funded INFACT project, partners drawn from research and industry are developing innovative, non-invasive exploration technologies and will test them under realistic conditions. The project aims at developing technologies that are more...

Europe is about to become more attractive for the exploration of raw materials. Partners drawn from research and industry plan to develop innovative, non-invasive technologies and test them under realistic conditions. For this purpose, three European reference areas...