New Exploration Technologies

Project Information

NEXT

Grant agreement ID: 776804

DOI 10.3030/776804

Project closed

EC signature date 20 April 2018

Start date 1 May 2018

End date 30 September 2021

Funded under

• SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Climate action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials

Total cost € 6 901 276,25

EU contribution € 6 901 276,25

Coordinated by

GEOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS
Finland

Deliverables

Documents, reports (15)

Policy brief on the importance of exploration technologies, social and safety risks, early participation of civil society

Policy brief on the importance of exploration technologies social and safety risks early participation of civil society

Final Data Management Plan
Report on Social Media
Recommendations to feed the RM Strategic Implementation Plan
Vector magnetic surveys with drones

Vector magnetic surveys with drones public report

HR-ICP-MS sample preparation and analytical protocols

HRICPMS sample preparation and analytical protocols

Mapping key factors influencing effectiveness of social license during the exploration phase
EM surveys II with drones
Synthesis of Clustering Activities
Initial Data Management Plan
Report on Activities of the Press Bureau
Report on the role of exploration technologies and associated social and safety risks for social licensing
Policy brief on the importance and effectiveness of practices used to assess social impacts and interact with local communities at the exploration stage
Recommendations and best practices for the use of tested surface geochemical sampling media
A practical NEXT toolkit for exploration and mining companies

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Corporate Design, Project Website, Brochures, Leaflets, Newsletter

Open Research Data Pilot (5)

Field spectroscopic techniques - Best practises

Field spectroscopic techniques Best practises

Open-source stand-alone SOM software along with system concept / class diagram / software design, Testing report, User’s manual
Drone vector magnetic surveys

Vector magnetic surveys with drones

Mineral prospectivity maps for target areas
EM surveys with drones

Publications

Conference proceedings (9)

Snow as environmentally low-impact sampling media for mineral exploration - a case study from Northern Finland

Author(s): Solveig Pospiech, Anne Taivalkoski, Yann Lahaye, Pertti Sarala, Janne Kinnunen, and Maarit Middleton
Published in: EGU General Assembly 2021, Issue EGU21-5174, updated on 04 Mar 2021, 2021
Publisher: European Geosciences Union EGU
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu21-5174

Compositional Modelling of the Impact of Source Lithology on the Plant Ionome

Author(s): Pospiech S, van den Boogaart G, Tolosana-Delgado R & Middleton M
Published in: Goldschmidt2020 Abstract, 2020
Publisher: European Association of Geochemistry and the Geochemical Society.
DOI: 10.46427/gold2020.2107

Magnetic vector inversion using XYZ measured by fluxgate magnetometer in UAV

Author(s): Arto Karinen
Published in: EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, 2021
Publisher: EGU General Assembly
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu21-13006

Microstructural Constraints and Characterization of Remobilized Sulfides and Associated Alteration atPahtohavare, Kiruna District, Sweden

Author(s): Logan, L.A. & Bauer, T.E.
Published in: NGF Abstracts and Proceedings, 2021, Page(s) 43, ISBN 978-82-8347-049-2
Publisher: Norsk Geologisk Forening

Compositional modelling of element cycling in soil and plants - a case study from Northern Finland

Author(s): K. Gerald van den Boogaart, Raimon Tolosana-Delgado, Pertti Sarala, Janne Kinnunen, Maarit Middleton
Published in: Goldschmidt Virtual 2021, 2021
Publisher: Goldschmidt Conference

Mineral exploration in the glaciated terrain using upper soil horizon geochemistry and compositional statistical data analysis

Author(s): Pertti Sarala, Solveig Pospiech, Maarit Middleton, Anne Taivalkoski, Helena Hulkki, Janne Kinnunen
Published in: EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021, 2021
Publisher: EGU General Assembly 2021
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu21-10191

Iberian Pyrite Belt massive sulphide deposit stockworks: styles and comparison. Proceedings of the 15th biennial meeting SGA. Vol 4, 1864-1867.

Author(s): Losantos, E., Gisbert, G., Tornos, F.
Published in: Proceedings of the 15th biennial meeting SGA., Issue Vol 4, 2019, Page(s) 1864-1867
Publisher: SGA

Elvira: a new shale-hosted VMS deposit in the Iberian Pyrite Belt.

Author(s): Gisbert, G., Losantos, E., Tornos F.
Published in: Proceedings of the 15th biennial meeting SGA, Issue Vol. 4, 2019, Page(s) 1256-1259
Publisher: SGA

Hybrid mineral predictive mapping with self-organizing maps and a multilayer perceptron applied to tin deposits in the Erzgebirge, Germany

Author(s): Andreas Brosig, Andreas Barth, Peggy Hielscher, Claus Legler, Stefan Schäfer, Peter Bock, Andreas Knobloch
Published in: EGU General Assembly 2021, online, 19–30 Apr 2021,, 2021
Publisher: EGU General Assembly
DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu21-15874

Peer reviewed articles (6)

Electroanalytical metal sensor with built-in oxygen filter

Author(s): Elise Rotureau, Julius Gajdarb, Grégoire Herzog, Yves Waldvogel, José--Paulo Pinheiro, Mathieu Etienne
Published in: Analytica Chimica Acta, Issue Volume 1167, 4 July 2021, 338544, 2021, ISSN 0003-2670
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2021.338544

Vectors to ore in replacive volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) deposits of the northern Iberian Pyrite Belt: mineral zoning, whole rock geochemistry, and application of portable X-ray fluorescence

Author(s): Guillem Gisbert, Fernando Tornos, Emma Losantos, Juan Manuel Pons, and Juan Carlos Videira
Published in: Solid Earth, Issue 12, 1931–1966, 2021, ISSN 1869-9510
Publisher: Copernicus Gesellschaft mbH
DOI: 10.5194/se-12-1931-2021

Developing On-Site Trace Level Speciation of Lead, Cadmium and Zinc by Stripping Chronopotentiometry (SCP): Fast Screening and Quantification of Total Metal Concentrations

Author(s): Laetitia Hackel,Elise Rotureau, Aoife Morrin and José Paulo Pinheiro
Published in: Molecules 2021, Issue 26(18), 5502, 2021, ISSN 1420-3049
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.3390/molecules26185502

Mineral quantification at deposit scale using drill-core hyperspectral data: A case study in the Iberian Pyrite Belt

Author(s): De La Rosa et al
Published in: Ore Geology Reviews, Issue Volume 139, Part B, December 2021, 104514, 2021, ISSN 0169-1368
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.oregeorev.2021.104514

Identification and composition of carbonate minerals of the calcite structure by Raman and infrared spectroscopies using portable devices

Author(s): Yonghwi Kim, Marie-Camille Caumon, Odile Barres, Amadou Sall, Jean Cauzid
Published in: Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 2021, ISSN 1386-1425
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2021.119980

Discriminant Analysis for Compositional Data Incorporating Cell-Wise Uncertainties

Author(s): Solveig Pospiech, Raimon Tolosana-Delgado & K. Gerald van den Boogaart
Published in: Mathematical Geosciences, Issue Volume 53, 2021, Page(s) 1–20, ISSN 1874-8961
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s11004-020-09878-x

Thesis and dissertations (2)

Utilizing a tectonic framework to constrain the mineral system and remobilization in the Kiruna mining district, Sweden

Author(s): Leslie A. Logan
Published in: Licentiate thesis / Luleå University of Technology, ISSN 1402-1757, 2022, ISBN 978-91-7790-996-5
Publisher: Luleå University of Technology Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering Division of Geosciences and Environmental Engineering

A mineral systems-scale investigation into the Kiruna mining district andimplications for the timing of ore forming processes within a regionaltectonic frameworkIn thesis: 1. Utilizing a tectonic framework to constrain the mineral system and remobilization in the Kiruna mining district, Sweden

Author(s): Leslie A. Logan, Joel B.H. Andersson, Martin J. Whitehouse, Olof Martinsson, Fernando Tornos, Tobias E. Bauer
Published in: 2022
Publisher: Luleå University of Technology

Other (1)

Policy Brief on Social License to Explore: Policy brief on the importance and effectiveness of practices used to assess social impacts and interact with local communities at the exploration stage.

Author(s): Suopajärvi, L. Eerola, T., Panttila, H., Poelzer, G., and Beland Lindahl, K.
Published in: NEXT Policy Brief, 2019
Publisher: NEXT project