The Geological Resources Collaborative Communication Platform – MINERAL’s mission is to act as a communication forum, promote communication and knowledge actions in the Mineral Resources sector, promote the sustainability of the sector, promote literacy on Mineral Resources, among others. The objectives of the Platform members are to work together so that companies adopt communication strategies (in order to improve the social acceptance of the sector), promote and publicize the importance of Mineral Resources), create formats that integrate a greater balance between the need to maintain and develop a sustainable society, among other objectives.
MINERAL is made up of nine institutions that operate at different stages of the value chain of geological resources, namely ACPMR – Cluster Portugal Mineral Resources Association, ANIET – National Association of Extractive and Transformative Industry, APG – Portuguese Association of Geologists, the APICER – Portuguese Association of Ceramic and Crystal Industries, ASSIMAGRA – Mineral Resources of Portugal, EDM – Minas Gerais Development Company, LNEG – National Laboratory of Energy and Geology, I.P., the OE – Order of Engineers and the SGP – Geological Society of Portugal
