Simon MichauxGeological Survey of Finland | GTK · MIM
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This work has been done to understand what the future Critical Raw Material (CRM) list for Europe may involve. This examines what purpose oil serves to support the existing industrial ecosystem.
Geometallurgy is a comparatively new discipline in mining that involves the fundamental integration of multiple conventional technical areas of the industry, where the outcome is a genuinely new methodology. It can be a daunting prospect to be tasked with designing and justifying a comprehensive geometallurgical program. The task could be starting...
The start of the development of a new system to assess when we should use resources and when we should not, to meet a fundamental change in the industrial ecosystem. Energy limits and materials limits are coming. The growth based economics may well transition into contraction based economics. In this working environment, how do we decide what to do...
Recent advances in concrete recycling technology focus on novel fragmentation techniques to obtain aggregate fractions with low cement matrix content. This study assesses the aggregate liberation effectiveness of four different treatment processes including standard and innovative concrete fragmentation techniques. Lab-made concrete samples were su...
The successful implementation of geometallurgy largely depends on the continuous collection of high-quality, multi-scale, multi-dimensional quantitative data on the geology, geochemistry, mineralogy, texture, and physical properties of an orebody. This can then be used to build and improve, amongst other things, ore deposit models, comminution stra...
Phasing out fossil fuel use in order to limit global warming is an urgent global task. In a new climate law, Finland has set itself the target of being carbon neutral by 2035. Various scenarios and models have been presented on future energy needs and technological methods of production. However, there is a lack of research covering all fossil fuel...
The Geological Survey of Finland (GTK) has recently set a target to develop its mineral processing pilot plant located at Outokumpu, Finland, to become the world's best digital pilot plant complex and has already taken major steps towards realizing such an ambitious goal. The ultimate goal of the development plan within GTK is the leveraging of dig...
This is a review of 4 papers that have done work similar to mine but have come to different conclusions. Can I learn from them?
Finland has a unique potential to continue industrial production without fossil fuels. However, in order to achieve this situation, more raw materials and energy are required than is currently thought and is in line with strategic planning. In order for all fossil fuels (oil, gas, coal and peat) to be replaced at various sites in Finland, a large a...
The technologies used in mineral process engineering are evolving. The digital mineral processing solutions are based on advances in our ability to instrumentally measure phenomena at several stages of the beneficiation circuit, manage the data in real-time, and to analyze these data using machine learning to develop the next generation of process...
This report is the development of a battery ecosystem in Finland, with several scenarios.
The link below is to a report that examines what is going to be required to fully phase out fossil fuels as an energy source and replace the entire existing system with renewable energy sources and transportation. This is done by estimating what it would be required to replace the entire fossil fuel system in 2018, for the US, Europe, China, and gl...
Machine learning is a subcategory of artificial intelligence, which aims to make computers capable of solving complex problems without being explicitly programmed. Availability of large datasets, development of effective algorithms, and access to the powerful computers have resulted in the unprecedented success of machine learning in recent years....
Current industrialization has a foundation in the continuous supply of natural resources. The methods and processes associated with this foundation have significant momentum. This paradigm will not be undone easily. Human nature and human history make it so. Currently, our industrial systems are absolutely dependent on non-renewable natural resourc...
Battery raw materials (cobalt, lithium, graphite, and nickel) are essential for a technologically-advanced low-carbon society. Most of these commodities are produced in just a few countries, which leads to supply risk as well as environmental and ethical issues. Finland, with its available mineral resources (deposits and mines), industry (metallurg...