Key Enabler for a Sustainable Circular Economy of Minerals and Metals
The Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology (HIF) pursues the objective of developing innovative technologies for the economy so that mineral and metalliferous raw materials can be made available and used more efficiently and recycled in an environmentally friendly manner.
Career boost for Marie Curie Fellow - Dr. Soniya Dhiman expands her research expertise in the recovery of metals
Dr. Soniya Dhiman has been a Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology (HIF) since March 2024. The Indian researcher is working in the biotechnology department of the HZDR Institute on the development of technologies for the economic and ecological recovery of indium, gallium and germanium from industrial waste. The scholarship from the European Marie-Skłodowska-Curie funding program supports researchers holding a PhD who wish to carry out their research activities abroad, acquire new skills and develop their careers in order to achieve excellence in research.
Freiberg geoscientists successful at global Future Explorers Challenge
The Freiberg team gained the second place in a challenge organized by a Canadian mining company for its innovative approach to predicting further gold and copper ore bodies around the Chelopech Mine.
Interested in Critical Raw Materials? An entire week is dedicated to this topic during 19th Freiberg Shortcourse in Economic Geology ‘Critical Raw Materials: A Global Perspective’ with Judith Kinnaird and Paul Nex, University of Witwatersrand, SA, from Dec 9-13th 2024 at the Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology
FlexiPlant - Research Infrastructure for adaptive processing of complex raw materials
One of the challenges confronting our society today is the sustainable use of our resources. The concept of a circular economy, in which products, materials and components are reused and recycled within a loop, thus generating hardly any waste, is intended to meet this challenge. In order to recover raw materials of all kinds (e.g. rare earth elements) in an energy-efficient and function-preserving way, it is necessary to develop a new generation of adaptive and flexible technologies and digital platforms for the processing and recycling. FlexiPlant will be a globally unique research infrastructure, to develop and test scientific models, methods and technologies for the mechanical processing of raw material in a pilot scale. The digitalization and automation of the processing system are required for transferring the processes to industrial scale. As an open transfer platform, FlexiPlant will provide a variety of research and cooperation opportunities for interested partners from academia, industry and society.