A project put together by 13 institutions from five EU member states, the UK and Norway was awarded €8.3 million in funding to work on improving access to, and quality of, geological and geophysical data to stimulate investors to explore Europe for clean energy metals and minerals.

The project is called Greenpeg and it has developed two toolsets for the exploration of buried LCT and NYF pegmatites. These toolsets include three new instrumental techniques and devices, namely, a piezoelectric sensor, a helicopter-complementary nose stinger magnetometer, and a drone-borne hyperspectral imaging system.