by Konstantinos Kanellos | Mar 11, 2026 | news
As Europe accelerates its transition towards renewable energy, electric mobility and digital infrastructure, one question is becoming increasingly urgent: where will the critical raw materials needed to power these technologies come from? Lithium for batteries, rare...
by Konstantinos Kanellos | Jan 21, 2026 | news
Europe’s raw materials sector is facing a period of structural change. Demand for critical raw materials is rising sharply, supply chains remain fragile, and regulatory expectations are tightening. Against this backdrop, digital and Earth Observation–driven solutions...
by Konstantinos Kanellos | Dec 18, 2025 | news
On 4–5 November 2025, the VTT Optical Measurements team, together with VTT’s Innovative Air Mobility group, organised a specialised GoldenRAM hyperspectral drone imaging workshop dedicated to vegetation mapping in mining environments. The training, delivered in...
by Esther | Oct 30, 2025 | news
From Sokli to Kevitsa: In-Situ Water Quality Measurements in Finland’s North In August 2025, GoldenRAM continued its environmental monitoring efforts with two fieldwork campaigns in northern Finland: first in Sokli (5–7 August), followed by Kevitsa (18–22 August),...
by Konstantinos Kanellos | Oct 23, 2025 | news
At the International Conference Future Open-Cast Mining in Freiberg, Germany (15–19 September 2025), GoldenRAM showed how High-Performance Computing (HPC) through the CLOUDUT project[1] combined with FLAC3D simulations is reshaping geotechnical risk monitoring in...
by Esther | Oct 16, 2025 | news
GoldenRAM team members from VTT (Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd) and GTK (Geological Survey of Finland) carried out environmental fieldwork in Sokli, Eastern Lapland from 28 July to 8 August 2025. This time, the focus was on vegetation: collecting in-situ...
