#Mineral resources and the circular economy

Diagram showing how soil is regenerated

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Building fertile soil with waste

Are you a landscape developer or a community wanting to restore your site or region? BRGM experts can estimate the level of deterioration of your ground and offer suitable solutions to regenerate the ecological services it can provide, while taking into account circular economy principles.

A mobile plant for crushing demolition concrete for recycling

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Modelling the impact of construction waste reuse on groundwater

Are you interested in developing the reuse of mineral waste from construction sites for your spatial planning projects, but would like to know more about the impact of such practices on groundwater? BRGM has the modelling tools required to answer such questions.

Rehabilitation work on a brownfield site

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Recycling excavated earth from potentially polluted sites and soils

You are a quarry operator, a developer or a public works contractor and you are not sure how to manage and recycle your excavated earth? The BRGM can provide support, from sampling to characterisation and treatment of these excavated soils.

Chantier de restauration de la cathédrale Notre-Dame de Paris

Research & Development Agreement to restore Notre Dame cathedral in Paris

View of the open-pit copper mine, Turkey

Santiago, Chile / Online

View of the open-pit copper mine, Turkey

A mobile plant for crushing demolition concrete for recycling

Mount Weld rare earth mine, Australia

Investing in African Mining Indaba 2021

BRGM's Plat'Inn platform for raw materials and the circular economy

Laboratory, technological platform

Plat’Inn: an experimental pilot facility for the treatment of mineral raw materials, waste and industrial by-products

As part of building a more “circular economy”, BRGM can help you design and develop innovative solutions for the extraction and use of primary and secondary mineral resources.

Cover of issue 37 of the Georama newsletter

Georama N° 37: BRGM on an international level

Wagons carrying bauxite ore, Guinea

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Environmental analysis of mineral resource procurement

BRGM is able to measure the environmental impacts linked to the supply of mineral raw materials. In this respect, through a better understanding of the flow of materials along value chains, BRGM helps economic players to reduce their environmental impact.

Example of a settling pond, Gard

Current project

REGENERATIS: REGENERATIon and rehabilitation of post-metallurgical Sites by recovering resources