#Mining and metallurgy

Do you want to recover certain low-grade metals from mining or electronic waste? BRGM offers you its innovative bioleaching solutions, based on 30 years of experience.

Are you seeking to carry out large-scale (regional or national) prospecting in industrial minerals and construction materials for a sector or group of sectors? BRGM can deploy its experts for a reconnaissance campaign with sampling and analysis, in order to target the areas with the greatest potential.

If you wish to assess the quality and quantity of industrial materials or minerals on a site or a quarry extension, BRGM can deploy its experts in a geological reconnaissance campaign including drilling, sampling, analysis, 3D modelling and resource estimation.

In France, almost 9,000 sites are contaminated by heavy metals, such as lead, copper and chromium, as well as by hydrocarbons and organochlorine compounds, which include pesticides and solvents. Decontaminating them is a major challenge for our environment. This is the objective of the experimental PRIME platforms, installed at the BRGM site in Orléans.

As a project owner or contractor, you might need to know whether the rocks and soil in a given area are likely to contain asbestos fibres. BRGM can provide support at every stage of your project, from the preliminary study through to the creation of detailed maps, including field surveys, sample collection and laboratory analysis.

Do you wish to easily use data produced or disseminated by BRGM? You can tailor these data to meet the needs of web developers, consultancy firms, public services, companies and other re-users by developing customised APIs.

BRGM makes various kinds of geoscientific data available to the general public in different formats through its web portals. It also provides its public and private partners with standard or tailor-made training courses to help them exploit the data to the full.

BioREP is an experimental platform for studying deep environments and characterising the natural biogeochemical processes and/or industrial processes that take place there. It enables the safe study of interactions between water, gas, rocks and micro-organisms under a wide range of pressure and temperature, both for fundamental research and to meet very specific operational needs.

Simplify your regulatory procedures and obligations concerning data linked to subsurface work using BRGM's interconnected tools: DUPLOS (Unified Declaration for Underground Works) and DiaLog (technical description of boreholes).