RECOVERY OF MINING DISTRICT NETWORK
Let’s connect across Europe and enable researchers to grow their ideas by sharing them with their peers. This will boost their research, careers, and innovation
The extraction of minerals and metals from the earth crust is as old as human mankind. The management of mine closure and post-closure is getting more and more attention because in Europe as well as worldwide many regions are affected by environmental residues such as tailings, waste dumps, subsidences, contaminated water which is the result of unsatisfactory environmental performance of the mining industry in the past. All European countreis are facing these problems and many of these countries are lacking funds and capacity in managing these old mine sites.
This network of proposers with 74 scientists and practionizers from more than 60 organisations from 28 EU countries focus on legislation, governance and management of these legacies….
Specific Objectives
To achieve the main objective described in this MoU, the following specific objectives shall be accomplished
Capacity Building
- Establish and maintain a community of practice
- Pool experts from currently separated fields
- Involve special target groups (focusing on the management of mine legacies, Early Career Investigators, under-represented gender, experts from countries with less capacity in the field of management of mine closures and mining legacies)
Research Coordination
- Develop a common understanding of sustainably managing mine legacies
- Compare present legal framework, governance structures and management approaches
- Establish an European mining legacy database and visualisation on QGIS
- Provide input to mine authorities, regulators and financial institutions
- Open access visualization platform
Meetings
Overview of our meetings
Meeting 1
Management Committee Meeting, Core Group Meeting, Working Group
Title : Introduction to the Action
Attendance Type : Face to face
Location : Ostrava (Czech Republic)
Date : 22/01/2024 - 23/01/2024
Meeting 2
Workshops/Conferences
Title : Funding opportunities offered by the COST Action
Attendance Type : Virtual
Location : N/A
Date : 26/03/2024 - 26/03/2024
Meeting 3
Working Group Meeting, Core Group Meeting
Title : QGIS Database & Overview of EU regulations
Attendance Type : Hybrid
Location : Tallin (Estonia)
Date : 11/06/2024 - 12/06/2024
News
What has happened and what is planned?
1st ECOP conference and Training school in Bodrum, Turkey, 4 – 8 May 2026
Thanks to the hard work of many of the REMINDNET participants, we were able to organise the 1st European Conference On Post-mining issues. This ECOP conference will be held regularly every two years in a different European city. The first took place from 4th to 6th May in Bodrum, Turkey.
Success Story: Vancho Adjiski’s Best Paper Award Supported by the COST Association YRI Conference Grant
Through the support of the Young Researcher and Innovator (YRI) Conference Grant within COST Action CA22138, Recovery of Mining District Network (REMINDNET), Prof. Vancho Adjiski successfully participated in the 11th International Conference on Geotechnical Research and Engineering (ICGRE 2026), held as part of the CSEE Congress 2026 in Paris, France,
