One of the main objectives of the MINDeSEA project is to compile fragmented marine data products and metadata on areas explored and investigated for marine placer deposits and make them available through an information platform. The portal will provide access to data and metadata held by each organisation based on standards developed in the Geo-Seas (www.geo-seas.eu) and EMODnet-Geology (www.emodnet-geology.eu) projects and data products compiled at a scale of 1:250,000 (Phase 2), 1:100.000 (Phase 3) and more detailed scale when possible. We need to know and understand the location, extent and formation processes of marine placer deposits and how they are concentrated on the mineralization. It is necessary to identify areas with potential deposits as sources of the marine placer minerals within the EU and associated countries waters. The specific objectives of MINDeSEA WP5 will be: - Provide a systematic characterisation of marine placer deposits, by means of geological setting, sourcing, age, mineral content and other controlling factors. - Identify the main provinces where such deposits occur, taking into account spatial and temporal attributes, and provide models of formation. - Develop harmonised datasets and maps of marine placer deposits for the European seas, along with mineral-potential and prospectivity maps. - Establish synergy with on-shore RM research projects to use common standards and methodologies where applicable. - Analyse present-day status in terms of regulation, legislation and exploitation of placer deposits and demonstrate the efficiency of a pan-European research approach for mineral exploration.
Institute of Geology & Mineral Exploration (IGME)
Irene Zananiri
Institute of Geology & Mineral Exploration,
1 Spirou Loui str. Olympic Village,
13677 Acharnae,
Greece
Data modeling used D2.8.III.21 Data Specification on Mineral resources - Technical Guidelines to generate data schema for Ferro-manganese Crusts data produced by EMODnet Geology WP7 Minerals and MINDeSEA WP8 Link to Information Plaform for MINDeSEA WP4 Ferro-manganese crusts, phosphorites and Critical Raw Materials. The INSPIRE MineralResourcesCore UML class diagam applied for the spatial data attributes includes the following feature types: MineralOccurrence, Mine, MiningActivity, MineralDepositModel. The MINDeSEA WP4 applies the following tables: Chemistry, economic, environment, metallogeny, other and phosphoritesCriticalRawMaterials as agreed by the WP4 and WP8 leaders.