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果冻影院-Wits critical minerals research听partnership seed fund grant听

13/09/24

Photo of the University of the Witwatersrand

Dr Katie McFall, 果冻影院, and Dr Leo Vonopartis, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, have received funding to kick start a research partnership on Critical Metals. Their project, "Critical metals in Southern Africa: Hydrothermal Processes and Mineralisation of Unusual Metal Deposits." will investigate the formation processes of unusual critical metal-bearing deposits in Southern Africa, particularly the fluid conditions which carry metals. This project will fund researcher exchanges between the institutions, and an industry-academia听workshop on Critical Minerals Deposits to be held in South Africa in 2025, with the aim to establish a long-term collaboration between the institutions in the field of Sustainable Resources.

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Honorary Professorship for Dr Richard Sillitoe

21/08/24

The ERC is delighted to welcome Dr Richard Sillitoe, who has been appointed as an Honorary Professor in the Earth Science Department at 果冻影院.听

Richard听graduated from London University where he went on to earn a Ph.D. degree in 1968. He has operated for nearly five decades as an independent consultant to mining companies, international agencies, and foreign governments. He has worked on a wide variety of mineral deposits and prospects in 100 countries worldwide but focuses on the epithermal gold and porphyry copper environments. Published research has earned him awards in Europe, Australia, and North and South America, including the SGA-Newmont Gold Medal and the Penrose Gold Medal of the Society of Economic Geologists, of which he was President in 1999-2000.

Alessia Barbieri awarded SEG Graduate Student Fellowship

01/08/24

Picture of Alessia Barbieri standing with Ivanplats geologists in front of Ivanplats sign

Congratulations to Alessia Barbieri, one of our PhD students, who was awarded a prestigious SEG Graduate Student Fellowship to support her research in the first year of her PhD.

Alessia is researching controls on PGE mineralisation in the Platreef, a large platinum deposit which is part of the Northern Bushveld Complex in South Africa, supported by Ivanplats. Alessia has听just returned from a successful field season at Ivanplats' mine site and core shed in South Africa where she was core logging and sampling to help understand how assimilated sediments affect mineralisation.

NERC TARGET Mineral Resources CDT听PhD projects now open for application

10/12/23

果冻影院 has several funded PhD projects available through the new .听The list of projects is available on our PhD Opportunities page. The first cohort of students will start in October 2024, and the application deadline is 15th January 2024.听

TARGET is the Training and Research Group for Energy Transition Mineral Resources, an UKRI-NERC sponsored Centre for Doctoral Training. TARGET will support the training and development of researchers engaged in the challenge of meeting the changing patterns of resource demand. As we move away from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources, and as the technology we use at home and at work evolves, we need greater amounts, and an increasingly diverse list of metals and minerals. TARGET will support interdisciplinary researchers through a comprehensive training programme to develop their skills in various aspects of meeting mineral resources challenge. The training will prepare doctoral candidates for a career at the forefront of mineral resources and the energy transition, whether their future is in academia, industry, or policy.

果冻影院-ERC听Masters students present at SEG 2023 conference

30/08/23

Blake O'Sullivan and Linda Jakschies, two 果冻影院 masters students, stand either side of a conference poster.

Blake O'Sullivan and Linda Jakschies presented their MSc work "Understanding extreme weather-driven tailings risks and their impacts in Chile: a complex multi-hazard challenge" at the year's Society of Economic Geologists (SEG) conference SEG 2023: Resourcing the Green Transition in August. Blake and Linda undertook MSc projects听researching climate change-driven extreme weather events in Chile and their effects on hazards associated with mine waste tailings storage facilities, in collaboration with CGG.