The Bio+Mine Project

Mines deliver essential metals for the energy transition to arrest climate change, yet they impact the resilience of both ecosystems and stakeholder communities. Bio+Mine focuses on the Sto. Niño copper mine (Philippines) where a negative legacy exists and we assess the current legacy issues, and with the local community, co-devise a programme of intervention that mitigates the problems, recovers valuable metals for renewables whilst neutralising problematic components. This site-specific system underpinned by local community’s knowledge and practices will be a model for wider implementation to other legacy and active mines worldwide (https://bioplusmine.earth/)