"Minerals got talent" exhibition

An exceptional exhibition “Minerals Got Talent” is in Nancy!

A unique exhibition “Minerals Got Talent” that has been travelling around Europe since 2019 has finally come to Nancy in 2022! This educational European project funded by EIT Raw Materials is led by the Université de Lorraine, LabEx RESSOURCES21 and GeoRessources, and carried out in collaboration with TalTech University in Estonia, University of Oulu in Finland, FCT Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Portugal, the BRGM and the Czech Geological Survey in Czech Republic. The exhibition was created by the European Geoscientists to bring attention to the importance of minerals in our daily lives; it is an engaging installation that welcomes all ages and backgrounds.

Designed as a travelling exhibition, “Minerals Got Talent” was born and first presented in Estonia where it stayed from October 2019 to July 2020. The second traveling destination was Finland, Tietomaa Science Museum of Oulu, where the exhibition was hosted from October 2020 to December 2021. From January 2022, “Minerals Got Talent” has been welcoming visitors in National School of Geology (ENSG) Nancy, France.

The exhibition is divided into three thematic rooms. The first mirror room contains 100 mineral species coming from all over the world. The specimens were donated by the ENSG School of Geology at Université de Lorraine. This part of the exposition is accompanied by an explanation of the origin of elements and minerals in the Universe and on Earth. A short educational video provided by BRGM in the framework of the exhibition is also available here:https://youtu.be/5z4p4zGISww

Second room is designed as a bright interactive kitchen in which every tool serves to depict the use of minerals in our daily lives. The cupboards are not for decoration! – they are an important part of the exhibition hiding curious facts about the use of minerals and metals since the first industrial ages of humanity.

The third room is made to resemble a mine, with mining benches leading up to the exhibition pieces dedicated to remediation, rehabilitation, dealing with consequences of mining (i.e., wastes, land use, soil displacement), and metal sourcing for high tech goods. For the latter, an example of an iPhone is given, bringing attention to the diversity of materials required for its creation and the sourcing of the Critical Raw Materials involved.

An educational video explaining the concept of bioleaching is provided by BRGM alongside; the video is available here: https://youtu.be/aSb5PNwrRx0

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You can visit the exhibition before the end of July 2022, at the National School of Geology (ENSG) at the address 2 rue du Doyen Marcel Roubault à Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy.Wish to know more? Or, maybe, you would like to take a virtual tour around the exhibition?Visit the website of the exhibition at https://mineralsgottalent.eu/If you are interested in hosting the exhibition in your institution, please, contact us at .