Project Update and Sparks Session
Met4Tech held our mid-year Project update Meeting and Sparks Sessions on 19th July 2022 both in person and on-line, generously hosted by our project partner Johnson Matthey in Reading. The researchers form each thematic area delivered concise updates in the morning...
BEIS Launch UK’s First Critical Minerals Intelligence Centre
PRESS RELEASE From Met4Tech Research Partner; British Geological Survey UK’s first Critical Minerals Intelligence Centre to help build a more resilient economy. BGS News Pages: UK’s first Critical Minerals Intelligence Centre The UK’s first-ever centre to collect and...
Beta Technology Launch Circular Niobium
PRESS RELEASE From Met4Tech Project Partners; Beta Technology Circular Niobium: Building a Value Chain for Recycling a Strategically Important Metal A new project, centred in the UK, was launched in April 2022 to establish a business case and roadmap for recycling...
ITA Visit to University of Exeter, Penryn Campus
On 8th December the University of Exeter team welcomed one of our newest Project Partner on Met4Tech: the International Tin Association (ITA) at the Environment and Sustainability Institute, based at Exeter’s Penryn campus. The representatives of the ITA (Jeremy,...
Annual Project Meeting 2021
After some initial trepidation around in-person events, the first Annual Project Meeting for Met4Tech was successfully held as a hybrid meeting on 25 November 2021 at the impressive Edgbaston Conference Park in Birmingham and broadcast live as a webinar with over 50...
Supply chains for critical materials: £15m funding for research to strengthen supply of critical minerals via
@innovateuk
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/15-million-funding-boost-to-strengthen-supply-of-critical-minerals
🗣️ Upcoming talk
Karen Hudson-Edwards, Professor of Sustainable mining here at #CSM will speak at the MEI conference in June all about technology metals required for a green future ⛏️ Stay tuned! https://twitter.com/barrywills/status/1627593464178266112
#MEIBlog: Technology Metals for a Green Future: The Role of Biomining https://min-eng.blogspot.com/2023/02/technology-metals-for-green-future-role.html #Biomining23 @KarenHEGeochem @CambSchMines
#CriticalRawMaterials are a connected field of elements - like a big whack a mole in the periodic table.
@SampritiMahanty showing work by her, @gavindjharper, and Frank Boons on understanding the challenging dynamics and domino-effects in #CriticalMinerals chains at #IRTC2023
The @BHamlaw team on @Met4tech are examining regulatory procedures and practices surrounding primary extraction of #criticalminerals in the UK.
👇 Here is our policy paper on initial findings:
https://met4tech.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Met4Tech-Policy-Paper-Planning-and-Permitting-Brief-Jan2023.pdf
#circulareconomy #greentransition #criticalmetals