"¡VAMOS! will enable access to high grade EU reserves of deep-seated minerals by providing a new safe, clean and low visibility mining technique. Furthermore, the project will prove the environmental and economic viability of extracting currently unreachable mineral deposits, thus encouraging investments and helping to safeguard the EU access to strategically important minerals.
The researchers of INESC TEC’s Centre for Applied Photonics (CAP) developed a laser technology based on artificial intelligence that allows to identify and quantify minerals in real time.
14th August 2019
Underwater mining is already possible. It proved to be both economically profitable and favourable for the environment.
28th December 2018
INESC TEC participates in the iVAMOS! Project, which has a budget of EUR 12.6 million, and aims to mining flooded landmines. This project started in February of 2015.
14th November 2018
