Events

The Critical Minerals Forum will be hosted as a set of three regional sessions:

1. Americas: The role of geological survey organizations to advance critical mineral research (12 February 2021)
2. Europe and Africa: The past, present, and future directions of critical mineral research (19 February 2021)
3. Asia and Oceania: Geoscience to support critical mineral discovery (26 February 2021)

Each regional forum will feature lectures from science policy experts and geoscientists during a live plenary and moderated discussion session with attendees. All pre-recorded science and policy presentations will be made available on­line the Monday prior to the corresponding live plenary and discussion sessions. The pre-recorded science and policy presentations will also be aired live prior to the corresponding plenary and discussion session.

All plenary and discussion sessions will be conducted in English with live captioning in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Modern Chinese, and Hindi.

Presentations will focus on advanced mineral system models that are appli­cable to critical minerals and new methods for modelling mineral potential in buried, remote, and/or other challenging mineral exploration settings. Both of these research themes are included within the new Critical Mineral Mapping Initiative that is being conducted between the Geological Survey of Canada, Geoscience Australia, and the United States Geological Survey. Global efforts to expand this collaboration, including the development of an online geo­chemical portal for critical mineral deposits, will be discussed as part of this special session and is open to further contributions, research, and analysis.

For more information, including registration details, please visit: www.americangeosciences.org/webinars/critical-minerals-forum-2021

Please contact Christopher Lawley at christopher.lawley@canada.ca with any questions about this webinar series.