Projects

The Mining and Metallurgy Institute Bor (MMI) is one of the partners of the SCIMIN-CRM project, “Sustainable & CIrcular production of MIneral Critical Raw Materials”, no. 101177746 financed by the EU from the program package HORIZON EUROPE and coordinated by: “Asociacion nacional de empresarios fabricantes de aridos-ANEFA”, ES in cooperation with: “Zabala innovation consulting SA”, ES.

Novel domestic battery grade lithium-carbonate value chain for green life.

Project acronim: Li4life

Institute for Mining and Metallurgy Bor is one of the partners of the Li4life project, “Novel domestic battery grade lithium-carbonate value chain for green life”, coordinated by: International Center for Advanced Materials and Raw Materials-ICA, ES.

SUMMARY OF PROJEKCT: The fact is that the lithium deposits within the EU are associated with different mineralization in solid host rocks, except from the lithium brines of South America and Australia. This mineralization require a special approach when processing and purifying happen up to battery grade lithium carbonate. Li4Life proposal creates of an efficient technology for the extraction of lithium from poor or complex ores of underutilized deposits, as well as post-mining tailings, as the basis for the development of future clean energy. Reference objects is potentially viable lithium projects have been identified in Europe from Finland in the North, through Germany, Austria and Czech Republic in Central Europe, to Spain, Portugal and Serbia in the South-West and South- East. To cover the needs of the EU Battery Industry, Li4Life is aim to contribute an ambitious objective to increase the EU domestic supply of local raw materials by at least 5% to upcoming 2030. This is possible by creating an innovative value chain for domestic lithium raw materials. Li4Life’s pathway to this ambition – novel processing methods, and purification up to battery-grade lithium carbonate to overcome existing barriers, namely the lack of sustainable social licenses to operate (SLO) and compliance with strict EU environmental laws. MMI Bor in the terms of project, from 1.march 2024 to till next 36 months, will try to development new extractive technology for getting lithium carbonate from ELB Serbia ore. And then, will perform continuous pilot tests on the other type of ore from Europeans partner.

Mining and Metallurgy Institute Bor is one of the partners of the project named Building Ecosystem Integration Labs at HEI to foster Smart Specialization and Innovation on Sustainable Raw Materials – HEI4S3-RM which is coordinated by Universidad de Oviedo.

International cooperation for cleaner waters
Interreg-IPA Cross-border Cooperation Romania-Serbia Programme
Project RORS-337: „ROmania Serbia NETwork for assessing and disseminating the impact of copper mining activities on water quality in the cross-border area“ (RoS-NET2)

Interreg-IPA Cross-border Cooperation Romania-Serbia Programme
Project RORS-308: Forming of Network for Enhancing Environmental Protection from Pollutants of Mining Cross-border Areas (NETMIN)

The Cadastre of Mining Waste in the Republic of Serbia is a project aiming to further develop and improve the mining waste management system in the Republic of Serbia by creating its inventory – a cadastre of mining waste.

Program: SATREPS (Science and Technologically Research Partnership for Sustainable Development) – Japan

Pole of Collaboration in New Functional Alloys
Cross border cooperation Romania-Serbia

Promoting new ecologic filler alloys for soldering, based on the non-ferrous ore of the Romanian-Serbian cross-border area

Selenium as an Essential Natural Microelement for the Human Health Protection