The Mineral Industry Research Organisation provides collaborative research management services to the minerals and associated industries. The main functions of MIRO are to:

• Provide a means for cooperation amongst its members to solve common technical problems;
• To obtain information for industry and act as a point of contact with governments and international bodies;
• To provide an industry based focus for research, development and innovation.

MIRO exists to assist its members to identify new technology, to develop innovative techniques, contain costs and meet the challenge of profitable mineral exploration, extraction and production through environmentally sustainable methods.

Extractive Technologies
Mineral Processing
Waste Management
Materials Technology
Environmental Management
Information Technologies
Technology Transfer
 

MIRO are involved in all of the INWATCO project activities in both UK and Romania. MIRO’s major tasks throughout the minewater management project are:

General Project Management
Hydrological Characterisation

• Review of all available data in relation to catchment water management
• Technical contribution to the specification of hydrological monitoring equipment

Installation of monitoring systems

• Provision of technical support for the specification, design and installation monitoring systems

Coalfield drainage management demonstration and evaluation
Evaluation of factors related to wider European implementation
Development of European best practice guidance
Ongoing dissemination of general project and project findings

http://www.miro.co.uk

The National Coal Mining Museum are largely involved in the Project management, Coalfield Management Demonstration and Evaluation study, and Dissemination of the INWATCO Project. The NCMME coordinate all financial aspects of the project and compile the financial reports for EC submission. They will have overall supervision of the hydrological monitoring network, as well as managing the computer control centre where all real time data will be received and transmitted to the INWATCO exhibition centre.

http://www.ncm.org.uk

Human Dynamics, are a leading Austrain consulting firm based in Vienna, they are advisors to the European Commission, the World Bank, and the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on a number of technical assistance projects world wide. human dynamics are currently assisting a number of governmental bodies - Ministries of Finance, Ministries of Industry, Agencies for Restructuring & Privatisation, Customs Administrations, local authorities, other executive and monitoring bodies. Designing sets of practical recommendations for social and economic policies targeted towards restructuring of the legal and economic framework form a core of our premium services. human dynamics currently operate predominantly in Central & Eastern Europe and the NIS.

Human Dynamics provide the co-ordination of all INWATCO project activities in Romania, in particular the collection and review of all relevant hydrological data related to minewater drainage at the selected Romanian sites. Human dynamics will further install the hydrological monitoring instrumentation at the mining sites and supervise the Romanian hydrological monitoring test. Finally, human dynamics will organise a programme of consultations and meetings with relevant European government ministries and other organisations in order to review hydrological issues Europe-wide and evaluate the applicability of test programme findings.

http://www.humandynamics.org

ECS’s INWATCO project responsibilities will be for the specification, design, procurement, installation actions and commissioning of minewater control and monitoring equipment.
They will provide technical / engineering support throughout the programme relating to minewater management and control equipment, and provide engineering input to the development of best practice guidance and support for project workshop and technical dissemination programme.
 

http://www.ecsengineeringservices.com

• Licensing coal mining operations in Britain
• Handling subsidence damage claims which are not the responsibility of licensed coalmine operators
• Dealing with property and historic liability issues, such as treatment of minewater discharges
• Providing public access to information on past and present coal mining operations

The Coal Authorities main task throughout the INWATCO project is to specify, tender, procure and install water treatment facilities as a part of the overall INWATCO mine-water management system. The water treatment facilities include:

• Lime treatment area
• Cascade
• Settling ponds/lagoons
• Balancing Chamber
• Reedbed system

http://www.coal.gov.uk