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Inaugural Workshop

August 13-14, 2025

Hosted by the Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at Austin

2025 Topical Sessions


Conventional and unconventional sources of critical minerals

Critical Minerals Workforce Development

How to grow the US critical minerals workforce

Towards a Circular Economy

Innovations in critical mineral extraction and recycling

Policy & Supply Chain Economics

Aligning Perceptions and Expectations of Policy-Makers and Stakeholders in the Critical Minerals Sector


Workshop Sponsor

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Dinner Sponsor

Elementusa

“ElementUSA is thrilled to be a workshop partner as we commission our Critical Resource Accelerator—a waste-to-product contract research operation—launching in Austin this April!”


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