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“What are GeoERA Raw Materials’ most relevant products or achievements?”

“Where do you see a need for improvement and why?”

“What would you like the Geological Survey Organizations to do that add to secure responsible sourcing from domestic sources in medium and long term”

• To be platforms for debates between different actors, this could be on very local concrete issues on mining, it means a real involvement in the societal debate.
• Greater investment in mineral greenfields exploration.
• Transparent and stable mining legislation.
• More investment in exploration within Europe.
• National update of mapping and data.
• More involvement in education.
• Permanent funded body focus on investment in harmonisation and gathering new data.
• Undiscovered resources and exploration targets.
• Developing innovative technologies for mineral processing.
• Mapping or resources and making these available in a harmonized way.
• More planning and activities on the focal theme on raw material production in the medium and long term.
• Freely available information on geology, but without any bias toward the industry. We are geologists, not lobbyists…
• Provide open and harmonized data.
• Turn to big data.
• Involvement more of the communities in the surrounds: empower communities to empower themselves.
• Field surveys and re-evaluation of existing data.
• Include resources from geothermal brines in the mapping.
• Policy.
• Do more public education and inform the civil society better.
• Seek public-private partnerships on exploration.
• Influence policy based on available reserves and expected rates of extraction.
• Education and interactions with society at all levels.
• Cooperation with Land use planning authorities.
• Investor-focused mineral intelligence.

“Which keywords characterize GeoERA Raw Materials’ products best?”

See the WordCloud responses below.