Short Description

The European Technology Platform on Sustainable Mineral Resources (ETP SMR) aims at modernising and reshaping a fundamental pillar of the European economy:

the European Minerals Industries.

These include oil, gas, coal, metal ores, industrial minerals, ornamental stones, aggregates, smelters as well as technology suppliers and engineering companies.

Key objectives

• Securing the future supply of/access to European raw materials;

• Supporting the revival of exploration of Europe’s mineral potential;

• Developing innovative and sustainable production technologies;

• Implementing best practices;

• Reuse, recovery and recycling as well as new product applications;

• Creating European added value through RTD-based technology leadership, education and training.
  
  
  

Key Players


1. Industries

BHP Billiton (www.bhpbilliton.com)	SGL Carbon (www.sglcarbon.com)
Boliden (www.boliden.com)	Technicas Reunidas (www.tecnicasreunidas.com)
LKAB (www.lkab.com)	Technip (www.technip.com)
K+S AG (www.k-plus-s.com)	Umicore (www.umicore.com)
KGHM (http://www.kghm.pl)	Mintek (www.mintek.co.za)
Meed S. A.
Outotec (www.outotec.com)
S&B Industrial Minerals (www.sandb.com)

2. Geological surveys

BRGM France (www.brgm.fr)

GTK Finland (www.gtk.fi, www.gsf.fi)

Polish Geological Survey

British Geological Survey (www.bgs.ac.uk)

Geological Survey of Sweden (www.sgu.se)

3. Associations

EuroGeoSurveys, the Association of the European Geological Surveys (www.eurogeosurveys.org)	MITU, the Swedish Mineral Industry Research Organization (www.bergforsk.s
EUROGIF, the European Oil and Gas Innovation Forum (www.eurogif.org)	Polish Non Ferrous Metal Platform
Euromines, the European Association of Mining Industries (www.euromines.org)	UEPG, the European Union Association of Aggregate Producers (www.uepg.org)
IMA-Europe, the European Industrial Minerals Association (www.ima-eu.org)
MINFO, the Swedish Mineral Processing Research Organisation (www.minfo.se)
MIRO, Mineral Industry Research Organisation

4. Academia and Research

Mineral and Energy Economy Research Institute of Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland (www.min-pan.krakow.pl)

Institute of Mechanized Construction and Rock Mining, Poland (www.imbigs.org.pl)

RWTH Aachen University, Germany (www.rwth-aachen.de)

TNO (www.tno.nl)

Technical University of Košice

University of Leoben, Austria (www.unileoben.ac.at)

University of Technology Lulea, Sweden (www.ltu.se)