EU KAVA-PROJECT (INFO CENTER) EU KAVA-PROJECT (RIS) RE-ACTIVATE INVEST-RM

DEVELOPING TECHNICAL INFRASTRUCTURE THROUGHOUT EIT RAWMATERIALS COMMUNITY CHAIR OF MINING ENGINEERING AND MINING ECONOMICS IS LEADING WORK PACKAGE 2 TO FOSTER TECHNOLOGIES/METHODOLOGIES FOR RE-ACTIVATION OF FORMER MINE SITES OF INVESTRM: MULTIFACTOR MODEL FOR INVESTMENTS IN THE RAW MATERIAL SECTOR activation of former mine sites will be After a decade of declining commodity prices, described; negative investment trends debated mining · all available best practice technologies are legislation and increased overall risks, mining known and evaluated; companies in are · demand for further development and struggling to survive searching for new innovation is described, creation of project sustainable investment options. proposals for future developments and The InvestRM project will create a decision- innovation in all relevant and applicable making tool for raw materials companies and technologies for re-activating former mine investors, mining institutes, technical sites (e.g. KAVA upscaling projects), submit universities, geological surveys, non- project proposals to the relevant call in governmental association, the Bosnia and The project objective is to establish a Network Horizon2020. Applying for related projects, Herzegovina government and state of Infrastructure (NoI) of experts throughout e.g. in programmes like Horizon2020, institutions in order to facilitate investment in EIT RawMaterials community, developing INTERREG, REMIX making best practice the raw material sector. The project is focused Jurisdiction mineral resources in Bosnia simplied superior technical infrastructure to create examples available, both on technical, legal on Bosnia and Herzegovina due to its critical investment in the raw material sector. The synergies to merge and further develop (mineral policies, permitting and regulatory raw materials potential but will be fully tool will contain relevant, updated and RM- advanced technologies and methodologies for and administrative procedures, transferable to other East and Southeast tailored country data (legal, social, economic), re-activation of former mine sites. The NoI will transparency), economic (including taxes) and European (ESEE) countries. together with veried critical raw materials also be the single point of contact for any environmental solutions for every phase of re- The InvestRM project aims to design an online database. relevant expertise in the particular elds. activation project. accessible, decision-making tool for facilitating The project will deliver structured country data Establishing the proposed NoI will achieve the Meeting Tallin Start up meeting in Zagreb (entity-based) together with relevant and following main goals: validated geo-information on 120 critical raw · developing superior technical infrastructure materials deposits and occurrences within to foster technologies and methodologies for Bosnia and Herzegovina: antimony, bauxite (as re-activation of former mine sites, easy a potential source of rare earth elements – access for the targeted audience to all REE), uorite and magnesite. One of the relevant information through a single point of special tasks is the establishment of a contact, because all excellence in re-activation constructive dialogue with minimum 40 SMEs of former mine sites with highest quality and large companies throughout , expertise for all project phases is visible and Prijedor, and , info-days in order to available, innovative methodology for re- tailor the InvestRM decision-making tool.

Nikolaus SIFFERLINGER Peter MOSER Nikolaus SIFFERLINGER Angelika HAINDL Professor Vice Rector Professor Senior Researcher Excavation Engineering Excavation Engineering Head of Chair Mining Engineering nikolaus-august.sifferlinger nikolaus-august.sifferlinger [email protected] @uniloeben.ac.at @uniloeben.ac.at [email protected]

Homepage: https://eitrawmaterials.eu/project/re-activate/ Homepage: https://eitrawmaterials.eu/project/investrm/ _ _ Main research: Mining planning and Mining economics Main research: Mining economics and policies 12 _ _ Partners: Re-Activate Project Consortium Partners: InvestRM Project Consortium