Vectors to Accessible Critical Raw Material Resources in Sedimentary Basins

欧盟80%的工业原材料都是进口的，这使得欧洲的供应链非常容易受到破坏，并威胁到欧盟制造原材料密集型技术的能力，比如电动汽车、风力涡轮机和ICT硬件，这些对绿色和数字化转型至关重要。欧洲拥有巨大的矿物潜力，但由于缺乏可持续、低影响的勘探方法和社会对矿物项目的反对，发展受到限制。有了VECTOR，我们将产生新的知识来克服这些技术和社会障碍，释放欧洲的原材料潜力，提高欧盟原材料供应链的弹性。解决这些问题需要采掘业的商业模式发生重大变化，并采用更加以人为本的方法。VECTOR项目基于这样一个前提，即任何可持续人类活动的先决条件都是将环境和社会成本降至最低，并将所有利益相关者纳入决策过程。VECTOR的总体目标是提供基于证据和可获取的知识，将科学和社会途径整合到成功的矿产勘探和开采中。我们方法的第一个支柱是基于全新工作流程的地质勘探工具包，该工作流程使用基于机器学习的微创地质、地球化学和地球物理测量集成。该工作流程将在三个欧洲沉积盆地进行验证，并将在全球范围内推广。第二个支柱是社会接受程序，首次确定欧洲公众在决定矿产开发时所援引的价值观。这将产生一个社会接受指数和一个新的知识体系，反映不同的基于价值观的观点。第三个支柱是一个集成的工具包，由一个独特的、分布式的、多模式的、自我学习的和互动的平台组成，该平台将考虑地质勘探潜力和社会经济因素，从而产生一个数据驱动的、定量的和综合的评估，以确定更适合勘探和最终开采的区域。研究结果将通过一个引人入胜的基于网络的界面免费提供，该界面旨在支持基于证据的决策制定以及UNFC和UNRMS。

The EU imports 80% of its industrial raw materials making European supply chains highly vulnerable to disruption and threatening the EU's ability to manufacture raw material-intensive technologies, such as electric cars, wind turbines, and ICT hardware, that are essential to the green and digital transformations. Europe possesses significant mineral potential but development is limited by the lack of sustainable, low-impact exploration methods and by social opposition to mineral projects. With VECTOR we will generate new knowledge to overcome these technical and social barriers, unlocking Europe's raw material potential and improving the resilience of EU raw materials supply chains. Overcoming issues will require major changes of the business models in the extractives industry andto integrate a more human-centred approach. The VECTOR project is based on the premise that a prerequisite to any sustainable human activity is to minimize the environmental and social costs and include all the stakeholders in the decision making processes around this. VECTOR's overall objective is to deliver evidence-based and accessible knowledge that integrates the scientific and social pathways to successful mineral exploration and mining. The first pillar of our approach is a geological prospectivity toolkit based on an entirely new workflow using machine learning-based integration of less invasive geological, geochemical and geophysical measurements. Theworkflow will be validated in three European sedimentary basins and will be transferable worldwide. The second pillar is a social acceptance procedure that identifies, for the first time, the values that the European public invokes when deciding about mineral development. This will result in a Social Acceptance index and a new body of knowledge that reflects diverse values-based perspectives. The third pillar is an integrated toolkit consisting of a unique, distributed, multimodal, self-learning, and interactive platform that will consider both geological exploration potential and socio-economic factors to yield a data-driven, quantitative and integrative assessmentof regions more suitable for exploration and, eventually, mining. The results will be freely available via an engaging, web-based interface designed to support evidence-based decision making and the UNFC and UNRMS.