ISMC Cluster presentation
The Icamcyl Foundation will present next week the Mining Cluster, which will bring together more than thirty companies (and continue to join) to join efforts in R&D, international projects and […]
Rare earths and the location.
Santiago Cuesta López, general director of the national cluster for sustainable mining in Spain, is the Spanish representative on the European Commission’s expert committee charged with finding a solution to […]
Rare earths and critical raw materials
Scandium, lanthanum, praseodymium, neodymium, are some of the so-called rare earth elements, fundamental for new technologies along with other raw materials that have been declared critical, for their industrial importance: […]
Icamcyl’s director will represent Spain on the panel of experts of the European Raw Materials Innovation Alliance.
The director of the International Center for Advanced Materials and Raw Materials of Castile and León, Fundación Icamcyl, Santiago Cuesta, will represent Spain in the European Union within the group […]
Icamcyl defends León’s potential in new raw materials mining with the EU
The energy transition policy of the European Union and the Government of Spain ended months ago with the historic coal mining sector in the province, and dragged the closure of […]
ECHO PROJECT
From 1/06/2022 until 31/05/2026 the call is open to participate in theElectrical Computerised Hammering Operator (ECHO) project funded by EIT Raw Materials. The ECHO project aims to commercialize the patented […]
Open the second call for the European project MINE.THE.GAP aimed at SMEs for the green and digital transformation of mining and raw materials
The European project MINE.THE.GAP, in which the ISMC cluster participates together with an international consortium made up of 11 partners from Spain, Portugal, France, Germany, Finland, Bulgaria and Poland, has […]
7 good reasons for an SME to join a cluster
Due to their reduced size and frequent isolation, small and medium enterprises have inherent limitations regarding economies of scale and scope. In addition, SMEs usually lack the resources to develop […]
Copper, a metal on the rise due to its powerful antimicrobial properties
The most recent studies show that the SARS-CoV-2 virus survives for days on plastic, glass or stainless steel surfaces, but disintegrates on copper surfaces in a few hours. This fact […]
What is the cost of contaminated soils due to extractive activities?
It is estimated that the soils of approximately 2.5 million sites in the European Union are potentially contaminated and at least 14% of them require soil decontamination as a result […]