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[Audio] Welcome to this presentation on our project SPEME, funded under the program STRATEGIA of the FRQNT, that reunite college, university, and industrial partners in Quebec, with the common goal to create a network of experts to improve the mining environmental footprint. The acronym of the project, SPEME, means H-O-P-E in Italian: A word that fully represents our common drive for this inter-sectorial project..

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[Audio] This project aims to reduce the environmental impact of rare earth elements mining, by providing a full spectrum of novel sorting, extraction, and pollutant monitoring and removal techniques. The project combines the expertise of Professor Larivière, a specialist in analytical and separative chemistry, with an inter-sectorial panel of experts in the social and natural sciences and engineering. Such synergies among different fields are required to cover the complexity of the problem represented by the social and environmental impact of mining and to disseminate the experts' knowledge to respond to the concerns of the Indigenous and local communities..

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[Audio] The project will cover two principal axes: environment and technology. Each axe involves experts affiliated to different research centers, sharing their top-notch equipment and knowledge of their members. The team includes political, economic, and natural scientists, as well as geologists, mining, chemical, and environmental engineers, to offer a complete analysis of the effect of mining activities and propose greener solutions. Each axe and member is implied in solving a specific aspect of the project, as here summarized..

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[Audio] The experts of the environmental axe will deal with evaluating and mitigating the natural and human impact of mining. Let's ask them directly about their expertise and rôle in the project..

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[Audio] Dominic Larivière, leader of the project, and Debra Hausladen will collaborate to find strategies to detect and immobilize eventual pollutants, while evaluating their mobility into the environment. Let's hear it from the head of the project:.

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[Audio] Thierry Rodon and Carlos Ordas Criado will further investigate the social and economic implications of mining activities in northern regions. Professor Rodon is actively involved with Indigenous Communities through vulgarization and dissemination events about the impact of mining, and will be a key component to our forum. Let's hear how Carlos Ordas Criado summarizing his rôle in the project..

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[Audio] The technological axe has as objectives the reduction of C-O-2 emissions, the improvement of the rare earth extraction and of their sorting to reduce the overall waste from the mining operation..

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[Audio] Georges Beaudoin, Nhat Truong Nguyen and Peter McBreen will collaborate to reduce C-O-2 emission through remineralization and photocatalysis. Professor Nguyen will explain us how photocatalysis can improve mining:.

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[Audio] The technological axe has as objectives the reduction of C-O-2 emissions, the improvement of the rare earth extraction and of their sorting to reduce the overall waste from the mining operation..

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[Audio] Finally, our team will work in coupling different methods to detect the rare earths in the ore. An improved detection of the rare earths can lead to an improved separation, limiting the amount of waste produced at this step. Gabriella Tessitore and John Capobianco will focus on optical spectroscopy, while Marc constantin will use laser-induced breakdown spectrocopy to identify the rare earths in the ore minerals. Let's hear it from Gabriella Tessitore:.

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[Audio] Our team hopes to share their expertise with Indigenous and local communities that might be affected by mining activities. We formed a forum of experts ready to address your questions through in-person meetings and our contact address. Feel free to reach out for any enquire at [email protected]. Our experts will be happy to answer as we believe that together, we are SPEME!.