CIRCULAR ECOLOGICAL ESSENTIAL & CRITICAL RAW MATERIALS (ROTATE)

ROTATE的目标是以可持续和生态的方式挖掘矿物开采和加工的全部潜力，开发必要的技术和工具，以实现基本和关键原材料的零排放和零污染，并通过在工业共生的背景下实施废物增值机制来确保循环方法，特别是将废物再利用为建筑部门的骨料，并回收二次产品。ROTATE的总体目标是实现原材料的零排放和零污染，为采矿业提供新的工具，实现更可持续的绿色矿物开采。该项目中提出的解决方案将允许提高截止品位，同时减少整个过程的环境足迹。在具有不同共生（在同一阶段由同一成因过程形成的同一岩石中同时出现的矿物）剖面的矿床中进行的试点示范将确保在各种各样的采矿地点推广这些技术。为了确保欧盟在关键原材料获取方面的领先地位，该项目由三个主要的相互关联的支柱和三个横向的地板组成，支柱提供技术解决方案，横向地板涵盖跨领域问题，包括集群和社会接受度。一系列技术性的支柱项目成果[PRP]和楼层项目成果[PRF]将在ROTATE的框架内交付。ROTATE将提供具体的方法和/或技术，旨在克服社会代理人对CRM矿床开采的不情愿，这要归功于所实现的环境影响减少。这将导致未来可利用的CRM站点的增加，促进欧盟获得战略CRM，并促进可再生能源、电动汽车以及国防与航天领域的发展。

ROTATE's ambition is to tap the full potential of minerals extraction and processing in a sustainable and ecological way, developing the needed technologies and tools for achieving zero emissions and pollution for essential and critical raw materials obtention and ensuring a circular approach by implementing mechanisms for waste valorisation in the context of industrial symbiosis, especially reusing waste as aggregates for the construction sector and also recovering secondary products. ROTATE'S GENERAL OBJECTIVE is to achieve a near zero emissions and pollution obtention of raw materials, providing new tools for the mining industry in its journey to a more sustainable and green mineral extraction. The solutions proposed in the project will allow to improve the cut-off grade while reducing the environmental footprint of the whole process. The pilot demonstrationsin mineral deposits with different paragenetic (minerals occurring together in a rock, formed by the same genetic process during the same stage) profiles will ensure the replication of the technologies to a wide variety of mining sites. To ensure EU's lead on Critical Raw Materials access, the project is structured in three main interconnected PILLARS providing technical solutions and three transversal FLOORS covering cross cutting issues, including clustering and social acceptance. A series of technical Project Results of Pillars [PRP] and Project Results of Floors [PRF] will be delivered within the ROTATE's framework. ROTATE's will deliver specific methods and/or technologies aiming to overcome the reluctance of social agents to the exploitation of CRM deposits thanks to the environmental impact reduction achieved. This will result in an increase of the CRM sites that could be exploited in a future, boosting the access of EU to strategic CRM and enabling the development of the Renewables, e-mobility and Defence & Space sectors.