Tag: critical minerals
June 11, 2026
Gulf Coast Coal Holds Billions in Critical Minerals. But the Economics are Tricky.
Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin have found that there’s a significant amount of rare earth elements trapped in the coal and coal…
Read MoreSeptember 23, 2025
Professor Daniel Alessi Joins Jackson School to Bolster Critical Minerals Research
Daniel Alessi, an aqueous geochemist and expert on lithium extraction, joined the Jackson School of Geosciences’ Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Bureau of…
Read MoreAugust 4, 2025
MEDIA ADVISORY: Critical Minerals Workshop
Hear from some of the world’s foremost experts on critical minerals — including academic researchers, government experts, startup CEOs, and workforce development specialists — on…
Read MoreMarch 25, 2025
UT Austin Hosting Inaugural Critical Minerals Workshop
Registration has opened for the University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences’ inaugural North American Workshop on Critical Mineral Research, Development, and Education….
Read MoreNovember 19, 2024
Enormous Cache of Rare Earth Elements Hidden Inside Coal Ash Waste
Coal ash — the chalky remnants of coal that has been burned for fuel — has been piling up across the United States for decades….
Read MoreDecember 12, 2023
The Real Cost of Electricity
Unravelling the hidden costs and environmental impacts of producing electricity — option by option.
Read MoreMarch 23, 2023
New Mining Technology Uses CO2 as Tool to Access Critical Minerals
A mining technology pioneered by researchers at the Bureau of Economic Geology at The University of Texas at Austin could reduce the amount of energy…
Read MoreMarch 22, 2023
Carbon-Free Mining Revolution
Esti Ukar is a research scientist at the Jackson School of Geosciences Bureau of Economic Geology. She earned her bachelor of science in geology at Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea/ Universidad del País Vasco in Spain in 2003 and her doctorate in geological sciences at the Jackson School in 2010. Ukar is leading a project to develop technology for mining critical minerals — mineral resources that are essential to the economy and whose supply may be disrupted — more efficiently and without adding any carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. The three-year, $5 million project is part of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Mining Innovations for Negative Emissions Resource Recovery (MINER) program, which aims to develop market-ready technologies that will increase domestic supplies of critical elements required for clean energy technology.
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