
From Tailings to Future Products
April 28, 2022, 9:00-11:00 (UTC+3 Finnish time)
What to do with tailings? With this question we continue the Circular Minerals Webinar Series launched in February by VTT, Geological Survey of Finland, University of Oulu and LUT University. Since then, the work on residues from the mining and processing industry has intensified, and the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment recently launched a project Raakku rahaksi (Money from Mining waste) to form national working groups to tackle the issue. We continue contributing to this work by finding viable solutions to use mining waste as secondary raw material.
This is a Teams on-line event.
Programme
9:00-10:00
Opening: Tailings: Walk the Talk!
Jutta Nuortila-Jokinen, Industry Professor, LUT University
Keynote: Success story – LKAB
Rickard Jolsterå, Senior Research Engineer, LKAB
Regulatory Challenges of Tailings Recovery in Finland and the Lack of Legal Knowledge
Saara Österberg, Researcher, UEF (note: in Finnish, summary in English)
European Perspective – Tailings as Raw Materials in the Current Geopolitical Realm
Olli Salmi, General Manager, EIT RawMaterials Baltic Sea Regional Centre
Health break (5 min.)
10:00-11:00
Panel discussion:
Let’s Talk about Tailings. Envision the Possible
Participants:
Rickard Jolsterå, LKAB
Saara Österberg, UEF
Olli Salmi, EIT RawMaterials
Pekka Tanskanen, R&D Manager, Keliber
Jutta Kaisanlahti, Leading Specialist, ELY Centre Lapland
Moderator Inka Orko, Co-creation Manager, VTT
Organizers take-aways – highlights of the discussion
Antti Häkkinen, Professor, LUT University
Päivi Kinnunen, Research Team Leader, Metals and materials recovery, VTT
Priyadharshini Perumal, Postdoctoral Researcher, Oulu University
Tommi Kauppila, Research Professor, GTK
Closing words, Jutta Nuortila-Jokinen