Mineralogy as an enabler of transition

Minerals and metals are crucial for a modern society. Up to now, the growth and prosperity have been based on finite mineral resources and fossil fuels. However, nowadays, as the global demand for critical metallic mineral resources metals has been rising constantly due to the world’s continued population growth, and due to their crucial role in enabling the green energy transition, the mineralogical attributes are getting more important. 

Understanding and appreciating the mineralogy is a decisive key component of sustainable development by determining the suitable conditions for the ore-forming processes, applied mineralogy for flowsheet development to efficiently recover valuable elements and finally valorization of tailings and to reduce the environmental risks related to mining waste. 

This session embraces all scientific aspects of minerals with emphasis on, but not limited to the contribution of mineralogy to the sustainable development.

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