Researchers are invited to (pre)register for the Summer School “To mine or not to mine – A multi-criteria assessment of the landfill mining of municipal and industrial solid waste deposits” (September 10-12, 2018). This latest Summer School is organised in Leuven...
Could “red mud” be the answer to some of Europe’s critical-metal supply concerns? That’s the central question addressed in the April 2016 EU MSCA-ETN REDMUD Policy Brief, authored by one of Europe’s finest red mud experts, i.e. Dr. Thymis Baleomenos (Aluminium...
SIM² KU Leuven and EURELCO coordinator Peter Tom Jones was invited to provide a TED-talk in Mechelen for the University of Flanders (Universiteit van Vlaanderen). In a 15 minute-talk (in Dutch) Jones explains the Enhanced Landfill Mining concept, covering the role of...
On March 29, 2018, the official kick-off event for the GloREIA project took place in Brussels. GloREIA is to become a new, global association for the rare earth industry. The GloREIA project receives support from EIT RawMaterials. (Leuven, 5-4-2018) There are industry...
In the framework of the ERC SOLCRIMET project SIM² KU Leuven researchers have found that replacement of water by ethylene glycol provides enhanced selectivity in the solvent extraction of transitions metals from rare earth elements. These findings have now been...
This new RSC Advances paper by Dženita Avdibegović, Mercedes Regadío and Koen Binnemans (SIM² KU Leuven & SOLVOMET) demonstrates the effectiveness of a novel supported ionic liquid phase (SILP) for the uptake of REEs (Sc, Y, Nd, Dy) in the presence of base...
SOLVOMET is KU Leuven’s Centre for Solvometallurgy. SOLVOMET’s mission is to support its industrial and RTD partners in the conceptual and practical development of more sustainable solvometallurgical separation processes and new mining chemicals, which are subsequently tested using state-of-the-art lab-scale and mini pilot-scale experimental facilities.
Register for Summer School To mine or not to mineApril 24, 2018
New Policy Brief on bauxite residue reprocessingApril 18, 2018
New “TED-talk” on Enhanced Landfill Mining (ELFM)April 17, 2018
A new association for the global REE industryApril 5, 2018
Non-aqueous SX provides enhanced separationsApril 2, 2018