The LIFE BRINE MINING 4th Stakeholder Event took place at Poland. The meeting, which marked the final project event, held at the GIG premises, attracted a diverse audience, including policy makers, local government officials, representatives from the Polish Mining Group, members of the scientific community, and other key stakeholders. Prof Maria Loizidou from NTUA, LIFE BRINE MINING project coordinator presents the current method of waste water treatment in Poland, Gregor Gzyl mapping Polish mines and salinity issues, Dimitris Xevgenos (SEALEAU) and Sandy Chrisostomou (THERMOSSOL) presenting the business / economic aspects and the market exploitation plan of the project in the

Rhodes 2024 conference: the ­final event of the LIFE BRINE-MINING project with title “Demonstration of an advanced technique for eliminating coal mine wastewater (brines) combined with resource recovery”, aiming to enable the improvement of the saline wastewater management performance of coal mining activities by recovering useful and marketable materials as water and salts took place on Friday 21 June. Below the agenda of the event: M. Loizidou Demonstration of an advanced technique for eliminating coal mine wastewater (brines) combined with resource recovery K. Mitko, M. Turek Recovery of magnesium hydroxide, calcite and gypsum from coal mine water M. Loizidou, Dimitris

The EU has been putting more and more money into generating power from renewable sources like sun, air, and water, with the aim of reducing CO2 emissions and a gradual shift away from consuming fossil fuels. However, coal remains an important raw material in Europe. Unlike brown coal, hard coal is also used in other industries besides power production and is therefore traded and consumed by all EU countries except Malta (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20230622-2). Countries of Northern Europe, with Poland being dominant in this field, extract hard coal even 1000 meters below the earth surface. The extraction of coal from the earth is

The pilot system can treat 0.8 m3/h and is currently installed in the Zhemoveet coal mine that discharges to the Vistula river. The project aims to enable the improvement of the saline wastewater management performance of coal mining activities by recovering useful and marketable materials as water and salts. This way, the environmental impact of coal mine activities associated with brine discharge is minimized, while closing the loop of brine effluent. The main objective of the project is to provide an integrated solution for the management of coal mine effluents, including recovery of water and salts with high purity and