# Commission Decision of 30 April 2009 completing the technical requirements for waste characterisation laid down by Directive 2006/21/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on the management of waste from extractive industries (notified under document number C(2009) 3013) (2009/360/EC), Division 2: Geological background of deposit to be exploited

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

Identification of the waste units to be exposed by extraction and processing by providing relevant information on:
nature of surrounding rocks, their chemistry and mineralogy, including hydrothermal alteration of mineralised rocks and barren rocks,
nature of deposit, including mineralised rocks or rock-bearing mineralisation,
mineralisation typology, their chemistry and mineralogy, including physical properties such as density, porosity, particle size distribution, water content, covering worked minerals, gangue minerals, hydrothermal newly-formed minerals,
size and geometry of deposit,
weathering and supergene alteration from the chemical and mineralogical point of view.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2009/360/annex/division/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2009-360/annex/division-2
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