From MIRO's first year of existence when it ran two projects totalling a modest £15,000 p.a., by 2007 MIRO was managing projects amounting to £20 million including managing two large programmes funded through the Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund Today MIRO exists, as it was originally conceived, to assist its members in identifying needs for new technology, facilitating and managing collaborative research for developing innovative techniques, meeting the challenges of profitable mineral exploration, and extraction and production using environmentally acceptable techniques In 1982, the MIRO council, recognising the need for effective procedures for day to day operations, subsequently delegated authority to an executive committee We focus our activities in the mining and minerals sectors to highlight industrially relevant science and technology and provide innovative solutions to the key challenges before us This success is achieved by listening to and acting upon the needs of our members and through the development of strategic alliances with leading international research providers