2025 Speaker Videos


Keynotes


Development of lithium manganese oxide sorbents for the recovery of lithium from brines

Daniel S. Alessi
Professor and Getty Oil Company Centennial Chair in Geological Sciences, Jackson School of Geosciences at The University of Texas at Austin


Inspiring the Next Generation: Success Stories and Strategies from Youth Outreach

Leah Turner
Director of Education and Strategic Partnerships, CUAHSI


Innovations to Address Challenges in Critical Mineral Processing

Douglas Wicks


The 21st Century Minerals Industry; Energy Transition Challenges and Opportunities and Policy Influences on Metal Supply and Demand

Simon Jowitt
Arthur Brant Chair of Exploration Geology, University of Nevada-Reno Director and State Geologist, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology


Environmental impacts of critical mineral supply chains and policy implications

Jani Das
Research Assistant Professor, Bureau of Economic Geology, The University of Texas at Austin


Oral Presentations


The origin and enrichment of sedimentary basin lithium brines: a case study from the Devonian Leduc Formation, Alberta Basin, Canada

Kristina Butler
Department of Sustainable Earth Systems Sciences University of Texas at Dallas


LIGHT RARE EARTH ELEMENT OCCURRENCE, DISTRIBUTION AND MINERALOGY IN THE THACKER PASS LITHIUM DEPOSIT, NORTHERN NEVADA, USA

Jorge Crespo
Ralph J. Roberts Center for Research in Economic Geology, Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology, University of Nevada Reno


Critical metals in volcanogenic massive sulfide deposits

Stefanie Brueckner
Harquail School of Earth Sciences, Laurentian University


Critical Mineral Assessments with AI Support

Margaret Goldman
United States Geological Survey


A student-owned, student-operated, and student-led mineral exploration company

Joe Biasi
University of Wyoming


Embracing the Morphology of 21st Century Miners in the Future of the Critical Minerals Workforce

Harriet Naakai Tetteh and Zohreh Kazemi Motlagh
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology


Integrated Critical Metal Recovery and CO2 Sequestration Using Produced Water via a Novel Process

Wencai Zhang
Virginia Tech


Relevant or Redundant: Evaluating the Disbandment of the U.S. Bureau of Mines

Holiday O’Bryan
The University of Texas at Austin


Immediate Measures to Increase American Mineral Production: Establishing Tellurium Supply Chain Resilience for Strategic Decarbonization

Homay Fath
Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology


Presentation by ElementUSA at the Workshop Dinner