Objective
Smart Exploration consists of a research and application team supported by a group of technologically advanced SMEs and the mining industry. The consortium will firstly focus on developing cost-effective, environmentally-friendly tools and methods for geophysical exploration in highly challenging brownfield areas where exploration expenditure is greater and the return time (from exploration to production) shorter. A second focus point will be long-term greenfield exploration with the aim of reducing exploration costs, implying significant improvement in development rates and a sustainable supply of raw materials at the same rate as the whole world wishes to grow. Therefore, new innovative ideas will also be tested for greenfield exploration to increase the potential of finding new major deposits of relevance to the EU. The overall objectives of the tasks are to develop (1) cost-effective and innovative exploration instruments comprising airborne, surface, downhole and in-mine modular-based geophysical systems, (2) new exploration targets through multidisciplinary and integrated approaches, (3) novel reprocessing and handling of legacy exploration data that will generate additional information and targets for detailed exploration, and (4) validating all these developments, to maximize their impacts, at relevant exploration sites covering greenfield, near-mine and in-mine areas using known targets. We anticipate that these developments will not only generate new technological and methodological markets for the EU, but will also result in improved exploration strategies in the EU and beyond. The nature of the consortium, the partners involved, and the commodities that are considered will result in highly useful exploitation of the developments envisaged in the project and a guarantee of their successful use beyond the project life.
Fields of science
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftware
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managemententrepreneurship
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringmining and mineral processing
- natural sciencesmathematicspure mathematicsgeometry
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesgeophysics
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RIA - Research and Innovation actionCoordinator
751 05 Uppsala
Sweden
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Participants (26)
S-75128 Uppsala
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182 91 Danderyd
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771 82 Ludvika
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971 08 Lulea
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
164 32 Kista
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169 69 Solna
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
757 54 Uppsala
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
02600 Espoo
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00014 HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO
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20014 Turku
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8200 Aarhus
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8000 Aarhus C
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2628 CN Delft
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5507 TH Veldhoven
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
3994DB Houten
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
10129 Torino
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7780 409 Castro Verde
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4466-901 S.Mamede De Infesta
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09599 Freiberg
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01-452 Warsaw
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30-383 Krakow
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
43 170 Laziska Gorne
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
157 80 ATHINA
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14564 Athens
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151 23 Athina
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
15125 Marousi
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.