IRMCo joined the Kick-off meeting of the EU funded H2020 project NEXT ‘New Exploration Technologies‘ organized by the Geological Survey of Finland (GTK) in Rovaniemi, Finland during 23-24 May 2018. In the context of analysing as to ‘whether’ and ‘if so, how?’ the novel mineral exploration technologies could impact on the social licence to ‘explore’, IRMCo is tasked with the design of a toolkit addressed to mineral exploration and mining companies.