Project Co-Ordinator Prof. Andrea Cipollina was delighted to deliver a presentation about the SEArcularMINE project at this year’s annual EUSalt Conference 2023. EUSalt is the association of European and global crystallised salt producers whose members are key industrial users for the results emerging from the SEArcularMINE project...
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Assessing the potential mineral resources available in saltworks
Mediterranean Basin & European Union
SEArcularMINE project partners have made great progress with characterising bitterns from 18 saltworks located in 7 countries in the Mediterranean Sea and in the Atlantic Ocean...
Brine Sampling Campaign, August 2022
Margherita di Savoia (Puglia)
This August, Fabrizio Vicari from SEARcularMINE partner ResourSEAs has been sampling super concentrated seawater from Margherita di Savoia (Puglia), the largest saltwork in Italy...
We are delighted to announce that the Real Environmental Laboratory, a project milestone, has now been completed and in use...
Team members from Tunisian SEArcularMINE partner National Engineering School of Gabes (ENIG), travelled south along the coast last week for a very successful visit to the Mare Alb Zarzis Saltworks to collect samples for analysis. They were kindly welcomed and enjoyed a tour of the salt production site.
Zarzis saltworks, operated by the Mare Alb Company, is the largest sea salt plant in Tunisia and produces more than 700 000 tons of Sodium Chloride each year used by a variety of industries across Europe and beyond. The Zarzis saltworks use a traditional, and environmentally sustainable, evaporation method of …
Project partner SOSALT is excited to share photos of the progress of The Real Environment Laboratory (REL) currently in development within the natural reserve of Trapani and Paceco Saltworks in Sicily. This ancient building in the middle of saltworks is being renovated so that it can host a small laboratory with facilities capable of performing tests on the seawater brines/bitterns.