ISMC cluster attracts 1.8 million Euros to León
The ISMC cluster closed this week the first tranche of activities of 2022, having managed to attract to León more than 1.8 million Euros to implement innovation projects, and that […]
International Clustering Workshop
The MINE.THE.GAP International Clustering Workshop aims to foster new interregional clustering activities and project ideas among participants, with a focus on the commodity value chain. The Workshop has been organized […]
Business opportunities
Energy transition and the fight against climate change depend on new sustainable mining to ensure the supply of critical raw materialsSecuring sustainable mining projects is only possible with a strong […]
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: […]
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 […]
XV International Congress on Energy and Mineral Resources
Date: October 28-30, 2020 Venue: Exhibition and Conference Centre in León (Spain) El pasado mes de enero se confirmó que S. M. el Rey Felipe VI ha aceptado la Presidencia […]
Industry Clusters Connecting Circular Economy
Date: February 11-12, 2020 Venue: Snowcastle Seminar Hall in Kemi, Finland. The Iberian Sustainable Mining Cluster is presented as a success story to the European Commission at an event […]
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 […]