OPTIMINER addresses Europe’s mining challenges with a comprehensive solution focusing on five different areas:

  • Efficient Critical Raw Material (CRM) recovery, including smart ore sorters, membrane-based hydrometallurgical processes, bioleaching, and phytomining.
  • Smart monitoring and control, enhanced with a Decision Support System and an NLP-based digital assistant to optimize productivity and provide simulation capacities.
  • Optimisation of energy and water usage, waste valorization, and strategies for toxicity management and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA).
  • Pilot lines creation for CRM recovery across different materials and geographical locations.
  • Increased awareness promotion and market uptake.

OPTIMINER represents a holistic approach to advancing mining technologies, enhancing sustainability, and ensuring the strategic autonomy of the EU in critical raw materials.

CogniSensus’ role in OPTIMINER is to work on the demonstration of the self-trained ore sorting mechanism by installing a related sorting mechanism at TERNA premises.

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