MINE-THE-GAP
June 2025 – May 2030
MINE-THE-GAP is an ERC Consolidator Grant project aimed at scaling monitoring environmental impacts of the mining sector globally. The surge in mining has uncovered a critical gap in our understanding of its environmental and social impacts. Essential indicators, such as precise geographical locations, waste generation, and details of extracted minerals, are surprisingly scant worldwide. MINE-THE-GAP will unlock new avenues in sustainability research, overcoming obstacles caused by the lack of essential geoinformation. It will create the basis for monitoring mining sites globally, which is essential for transparency and for providing mine-level environmental metrics to support decision making.
More details in the MINE-THE-GAP websiteand data results at MINE-THE-GAP Explore.
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. This work is supported by European Research Council (ERC) project MINE-THE-GAP (grant agreement no. 101170578)
