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The futureRecycling or primary raw materials exploitation?

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Ore Mining

Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth from an orebody, lode, vein, seam or reef, which forms the mineralized package of economic interest in the miner.

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Urban Mining

The term Urban Mining usually identifies the whole set of operations (e.g. collection, analysis, processing, quality control, recycling, etc.) aimed to perform the recovery of Secondary Raw Materials or, more in general, in large stocks of materials incorporated into cities (e.g. buildings and infrastructure) and/or also in landfills.

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Ore & Urban MiningLinks

Wastes produced in urban areas, analogously for what happens for natural resources exploitation (e.g. “Ore Mining”), represent a mine to exploit in order to recover secondary raw materials of different nature.

Mineral processing

Ore mining Urban mining

Raw materials processing

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Why?Benefits

• New market opportunities

• Scientific/technological feedback

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Partnership

Collaborative Project 2651892782 - FP7- ENV.2010.3.1.3-1: C2CA “Advanced Technologies for the Production of Cement and Clean Aggregates from Construction and Demolition Waste".

Research and Development