Awards and recognitions

Castile-La Mancha Regional Environment Award, Environmental Quality category, to the LIFE RIBERMINE project.

Second place in the 11th UCM Scientific Dissemination Contest in the category of dissemination video, awarded by the Office for the Transfer of Research Results (OTRI) of the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM). The winning work was “Geomorphic reclamation and monitoring at the Santa Engracia Mine (Peñalén, Spain)”.

Special recognition for geomorphic reclamation works as “Best Practice or Innovation in Recycling, Marine or Manufactured Aggregates”, awarded by the UEPG Sustainable Development Awards, to the LIFE ECORESCTLAY project.

The geomorphic reclamation of the Aurora quarry (Campredó, Tarragona), by CEMEX Spain Operations, within the framework of the LIFE ECORESTCLAY project, won the first prize for Good Operational Practices and Initiatives – Best Available Techniques, and was selected for the UEPG European Awards 2019, in the framework of the 10th Aggregates Federation National Awards for Sustainable Development in Quarries and Gravel Pits (Spain).

Recognition and inclusion of the Geomorphic Reclamation technique in the Best Available Techniques (BAT) Reference Document for the Management of Waste from Extractive Industries, as one of the Best Available Techniques for the Management of Waste from Extractive Industries in the EU, by the European Commission.

Second Prize for Technology and Knowledge Transfer from the Complutense University of Madrid, in the Experimental Sciences and Engineering category, for offering geomorphic reclamation solutions to the mining sector.

First Prize for Sustainable Mining and Metallurgy, awarded by CONFEDEN to the collaboration between the mining company CAOBAR S.A. and the Restauración Geomorfológica group for the project entitled “Sustainable mining in the environment of the Alto Tajo Natural Park: automatic control of mine water quality and restoration of ecosystem goods and services through geomorphic reclamation”.