EXCEED’s multi-metal/mineral, zero-waste mining-and-refining approach adopts a mineral-centric, integrated methodology via the application of a first-of-its-kind predictive and forensic geometallurgy, supported by enhanced in-line characterisation tools and the development of digital twins. Using four premier European pegmatite and RMG case studies, EXCEED develops, upscales & demonstrates cost-effective, sustainable and responsible extraction routes for recovering the CRMs and industrial minerals as by-products from Li-bearing hard-rock ores. A suite of CRMs will be extracted and refined, while diverse industrial minerals will be refined and valorised in low-carbon building materials.
VTT
IMERYS
CASPEO
SII
KELIBER
BETOLAR
SAVANNAH
DSC
WIENERBERGER
Universite de Lorraine
TUC
MEAB
“Make no mistake. The tsunami of cheap, subsidised Chinese Electric Vehicles is coming. Europe seems to have been sleepwalking into an abyss.”, that’s the opening statement of SIM²’s new documentary “The Nordic challenge: from mine to Electric Vehicle” in collaboration with the ENICON and EXCEED EU projects.
Horizon Europe projects EXCEED and ENICON co-organised a session on Energy Transition Metals in the framework of the 2nd International Conference on Raw Materials and
In a new paper by HiTemp researchers of the KU Leuven Institute for Sustainable Metals and Minerals, a chlorination process was developed to recycle lithium as LiCl, starting from the slag that is obtained when processing End-of-Life LIBs in a pyrometallurgical process.
A European mine to EV value chain? Pipe dream or a resounding “yes, we can!”. Find out in this Trends Talk with Peter Tom Jones (26 August 2023, Kanaal Z). A 30-minute hard-talk interview about our dangerous reliance on China.
SIM² KU Leuven (EXCEED consortium member) meets the President of Bolivia! Prior to his participation in the long-awaited Celac-EU summit in Brussels, on 17 July
Environmental green light for Savannah’s lithium project! The Horizon Europe EXCEED team is very excited about this week’s news that “the Portuguese regulator has issued a
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Horizon Europe under Grant Agreement No. 101091543
