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Echantillon poli de minerai rubanné de zinc provenant de la mine de Bois-Madame (Gard, 1982).
Echantillon poli de minerai rubanné de zinc provenant de la mine de Bois-Madame (Gard, 1982).
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    • Subsurface, a common good research program
    • Area 1 : Quantifying future national demand
    • Area 2. Characterizing potential
    • Area 3. Analyze the stakes and positions of stakeholders with regard to potential underground uses, legal frameworks and environmental impacts.
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    Targeted projects
    • Anticipating the future of French subsoil use (ANTICIP)
    • Dynamic modeling (DyMod)
    • Technical and economic forecasting (TAEF)
    • Digital Earth
    • Innovative and sustainable technologies (InnovTech)
    • Environmental assessment and life cycle thinking (LCA-SUB)
    • Towards the politicization and requalification of the subsoil (VERTIQUAL)
    • Justice Pathways for Extractives and Critical Minerals (JPEC)
  • Regional projects
    Regional projects
    • Deep geothermal energy in the Rhine Graben
    • Paris Basin - The resources and uses of the urban subsurface (S-PASS)
    • French Guiana (GOYAVES)
    • Geology of the Aquitaine Basin for the energy transition (AquiBEAT)
    • Massif Central contribution to current transitions
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Amas de bauxite dans un paléokarst (Occitanie, 2017).

Subsurface: a common good

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Wallentin, Anna, Jesica Murray, Damien Lemarchand, Laurent Truche, et al. « Helium exploration in European rift systems: Regional framework and new data from the Upper Rhine Graben ». Journal of Geochemical Exploration 289 (octobre 2026): 108125.
News
Science publication | Cartographic synthesis of European helium data: meeting with Anna Wallentin
1 July 2026
Excursion sur le plateau du Bénou
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The programme’s first summer school: training and building connections among early-career researchers
18 June 2026
Landfill and Aggregates Mine Located Close to Farmland and Forest
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Participation of the JPEC project in a conference about the legal dimensions of mining
3 April 2026
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Scientific papers

Évaluation actualisée des ressources potentielles en lithium (Li) et rubidium (Rb) géothermaux dans le Fossé rhénan (URG)
Updated evaluation of the potential resources of geothermal lithium (Li) and rubidium (Rb) in the Upper Rhine Graben (URG)
This work is part of the regional project in the Upper Rhine Graben.
Étude expérimentale et numérique du claquage électrique lors de la fragmentation par impulsions haute tension : application au grès des Vosges
Experimental and numerical investigations of the electrical breakdown during high-voltage pulse fragmentation: Application to the Vosges sandstone
This work is part of the InnovTech project.
Predictive mapping and assignment uncertainty with a spatially adjusted Gaussian mixture model
Predictive mapping and assignment uncertainty with a spatially adjusted Gaussian mixture model
This work is part of the Digital Earth project
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Amphibolite et veines acides tardives de la Pointe Buzaré

Key figures

    • 71.40
      M€ in subsidies over 7 years

    • 3.00
      main research themes

    • 13.00
      targeted research projects, involving 8 cross-cutting projects and 5 regional project-research sites.

    • 5.00
      types of subsurface resources and uses studied

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