In early March, the UNEXMIN Georobotics team carried out a preliminary field survey at a fluorite mine in Gehren, Ilmenau, Germany. The mine has asked us to help prepare the dewatering process, which we plan… Read More »Ilmenau, Germany – March 2023
In the Summer of 2022, the UNEXUP team, local cave divers, and various Czech special rescue units including firefighters collaborated to explore and map the Hranice Abyss, the deepest underwater cave on Earth. The project… Read More »Hranická Propast, Czech Republic (July/August 2022)
Between the 14th and 24th of June 2022, the UNEXUP team conducted a fieldwork mission in Budapest, Hungary, specifically in the Kőbánya-mine. The primary goal of this mission was to test several of the UX-1Neo… Read More »Kőbánya mine, Hungary (June 2022)
In March 2022, technology developers and robot operators returned to Ecton mine for the second UNEXUP fieldwork of the year, aiming to continue exploring the mine shafts in the United Kingdom. The underwater exploration of… Read More »Ecton mine, UK (March 2022)
UNEXMIN Georobotics Ltd., as part of the UNEXUP project, conducted exploration dives in March 2022 at the South Crofty mine in Cornwall, located in south-west England. The main objective of the mission was to explore… Read More »South Crofty, UK (March 2022)
In 2021, UNEXUP’s last commercial field mission was at the Solotvyno salt mine in Ukraine. This mission was conducted in three stages. The operators and technological developers visited the mission site in June, November, and… Read More »Solotvyno salt mine, Ukraine (June, November, December 2021)
The UNEXUP team progressed to their next field work site, Molnár János cave, in Budapest, Hungary, following the successful completion of the Csór well mission. The goal of the Molnár János mission was to conduct… Read More »Molnár János cave, Hungary (June 2021)
The UNEXUP consortium launched its first commercial mission with the UX-1Neo in Hungary in June 2021. The mission site was the Csór water well, a significant potable source of drinking water located in Western Hungary.… Read More »Csór Well, Hungary (June 2021)
In a ground-breaking mission at Portugal’s Urgeiriça mine, the UX1-Neo robot was put to the trial in three sets of fieldwork to evaluate its capabilities in a genuine deep underground mine environment. The trial was… Read More »Ugreiriça mine, Portugal (May 2021)
The UNEXUP project, funded under EIT RawMaterials, is a direct continuation of the Horizon 2020 UNEXMIN project. While in UNEXMIN, efforts were made towards designing, preparing and testing an innovative exploration technology for underground flooded mines, in UNEXUP,… Read More »UNEXUP EIT RawMaterials Project
The passages of Europe’s largest hydrothermal cave, the Molnár János Cave in Budapest, are still being explored. Its known passages are over 6 km long, the deepest part is 90-100 m, but it is likely… Read More »Molnár János cave, Hungary (June/July 2019)
The most recent UNEXMIN trial took place in May 2019 at the Ecton Mine, located near Manchester. The entire flooded area of the copper mine, which has been closed for nearly 160 years, was surveyed… Read More »Ecton Mine, UK (May 2019)
In March and April of 2019, the technical teams of UNEXMIN travelled to Portugal for the third trial at the Urgeiriça uranium mine. The mine, which reaches a maximum depth of 450m, provided an ideal… Read More »Urgeiriça Mine, Portugal (March/April 2019)
In September 2018, the Idrija mine was chosen as the second field trial for UNEXMIN, following the Kaatiala trials. The UX-1 robot, which had been upgraded since the previous trials, once again demonstrated its proficiency… Read More »Idrija Mine, Slovenia (September 2018)
The Kaatiala mine was chosen for the first environmental trial of the UX-1a robot and UNEXMIN technology due to its open lake with mine structures and shallow water, which provided an optimal testing environment. The… Read More »Kaatiala Mine, Finland (June 2018)
Developing science and technology UNEXMIN was an EU-funded Horizon 2020 project that developed a novel robotic system, primarily for the autonomous exploration and mapping of Europe’s flooded mines, but also with other applications in mind. The Robotic… Read More »UNEXMIN H2020 Project