The UKCA’s three day workshop on ‘From Outer Space to Mining’ has been written up for the journal, Astronomy and Geophysics. From Outer Space to Mining, the meeting summary, provides a concise description of the meeting and talks.
The three day meeting at Boulby Mine looked at ways in which space technology could be used to advance mining safety and the efficiency of mineral extraction in mines. In particular, it explored the specific challenges faced by Boulby in extracting salt and potash from the subsurface and how technologies developed for astrobiology and space exploration could be applied to the mine.
Before the open public workshop, the UKCA and the Boulby Underground Science Facility hosted a two day meeting on analogue research and the use of Boulby as an analogue environment for a proposed MINAR programme.
