V31G:
Geosphere to Anthroposphere: An Integrated Approach to Securing the Mineral Resources That Underpin Modern Society Posters


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Session ID#: 50873

Session Description:
Access to sustainable supplies of mineral resources is of fundamental importance to human welfare. Earth scientists play a vital role in shaping natural resource policies that ensure the availability of these minerals to society. These policies rely on knowledge of the stocks and flows of materials in natural and anthropogenic systems, in turn requiring an understanding of the geological processes that form mineral deposits and the industrial processes that transform mineral resources into useful materials. Future resource security will rely on both effective policy development and innovative technologies to realize the potential of Earth’s resources and make efficient use of above-ground stocks of materials in the built environment. This session provides an integrated approach to resolving some of these critical issues and welcomes contributions focusing on economic geology, mineral extraction, byproduct recovery, recycling, urban mining, and reprocessing of waste materials.
Primary Convener:  Graham W Lederer, USGS, National Minerals Information Center, Reston, VA, United States
Conveners:  Jamie L Brainard, USGS, National Minerals Information Center, Reston, VA, United States, Simon Martin Jowitt, University of Nevada Reno, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Reno, United States and Nedal T Nassar, U.S. Geological Survey, National Minerals Information Center, Reston, United States
Primary Liaison:  Graham W Lederer, USGS, National Minerals Information Center, Reston, VA, United States
Chairs:  Nedal T Nassar1, Simon Martin Jowitt2, Graham W Lederer3 and Jamie L Brainard3, (1)U.S. Geological Survey, National Minerals Information Center, Reston, United States(2)University of Nevada Reno, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Reno, United States(3)USGS, National Minerals Information Center, Reston, VA, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Jamie L Brainard, USGS, National Minerals Information Center, Reston, VA, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

0215 Economic geology [GEOHEALTH]
0493 Urban systems [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1030 Geochemical cycles [GEOCHEMISTRY]
3665 Mineral occurrences and deposits [MINERALOGY AND PETROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Tellurium Supply, Demand and Waste (362535)
Daniel James Smith1, Manuel Keith2, Gawen RT Jenkin2 and David Holwell2, (1)University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1, United Kingdom, (2)University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
Assessing the by-production of critical materials: the rhenium case study (432054)
Jamie L Brainard, USGS, National Minerals Information Center, Reston, VA, United States
Circular Economy Strategies for Criticality Mitigation (Invited) (414773)
Gabrielle Gaustad, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, United States, Michele Bustamante, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States and Mark Krystofik, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, United States
On the Inexhaustibility of Exhaustible Resources (408936)
Alexander Teytelboym1, Cameron Hepburn2, Felix Pretis1 and Alexander Pfeiffer3, (1)University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, (2)University of Oxford, Smith School for Enterprise and the Environment, Oxford, United Kingdom, (3)McKinsey, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Modeling Indium Enrichment in the Mount Pleasant Ore System (449792)
Gwen Christine Sullivan1, Austin M Gion1, Philip M Piccoli2, Philip A Candela1 and Richard D Ash3, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geology, College Park, United States, (3)University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States
Recycling and Secondary Sources of the Rare Earth Elements; An Overview (363597)
Simon Martin Jowitt1, Tim T Werner2, Zhehan Weng2 and Gavin M Mudd2, (1)University of Nevada Reno, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, Reno, United States, (2)RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Integrated Approaches to Mineral Resource Security: A view from Ireland (393266)
Murray W Hitzman, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, John Guven, Irish Centre for Research in Applied Geosciences, Dublin, Ireland and Jennifer Craig, Irish Centre for Reseach in Applied Geosciences, Dublin, Ireland
Rare Earth Element (REE) profiles as a tool for uranium ore provenance assessment (455006)
Anthony D Pollington, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States and Mark J Caddick, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Using Raman Spectroscopy to Determine an Ore Mineral’s Economic Value (459901)
Carson Rufledt, University of Kansas, Geology, Lawrence, KS, United States and Craig o Marshall, University of Kansas, Department of Geology, Lawrence, KS, United States
Searching in veins for critical minerals: Comparing pegmatite resources to alternatives (399039)
Graham W Lederer, USGS Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, United States
An Experimental Study on the Formation of Scandium-Rich Rocks (449763)
Austin M Gion1, Philip M Piccoli2 and Philip A Candela1, (1)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (2)University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geology, College Park, United States
Demand and straction of non-ferrous minerals from Sierra Mojada, state of Coahuila, Mexico. Past and present. Lesson learned? (462781)
Silvia L Zueck González, Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States

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