| Organizer(s) |
Michael J. Dziekan, Argonne National Laboratory
Athanasios Karamalidis, Pennsylvania State University
Kerstin M. Forsberg, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Kurniawan Kurniawan, Argonne National Laboratory
Amilton Barbosa Botelho Junior, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Jaeheon Lee, Colorado School of Mines
Jihye Kim, Colorado School of Mines
Gisele Azimi, University of Toronto
Hong Peng, University of Queensland
Shafiq Alam, University of Saskatchewan
Neale R. Neelameggham, IND LLC
Alafara Abdullahi Baba, University of Ilorin
Anne-Marie Suriano, Rio Tinto |
| Scope |
This symposium will cover extraction of critical minerals with a focus on critical and rare metals, from both conventional and unconventional feedstocks. Unconventional feedstocks include waste materials and residues, recycling of critical elements, tailings, and extraction processing byproducts resultant from metal production.
The critical minerals and rare metals of interest include antimony, bismuth, barium, beryllium, boron, calcium, chromium, gallium, germanium, hafnium, indium, lithium, magnesium, manganese, molybdenum, niobium, platinum group metals, rare earth metals, rhenium, scandium, selenium, silicon, sodium, strontium, tantalum, tellurium, tungsten, and other elements not covered by other TMS symposia.
Critical element extraction and processing topics will span bio-, hydro-, and electro-metallurgy for recovering rare metals from both conventional and unconventional feedstocks (e.g., residues, recycled materials, tailings, and metal production process streams). Novel processes such as biomimicking leaching and separation, externally stimulated separations (e.g., electric, magnetic, ultrasonic), in-situ recovery, solar-thermal reaction synthesis, novel electrochemical separations, and cold crucible synthesis of rare metals will be considered. Processing and refining studies for critical minerals and rare metals spanning laboratory, pilot-scale, and industrial applications will be included.
Note regarding publication: Authors seeking an oral or poster presentation opportunity must submit a manuscript for the proceedings or be accepted for publication in a TMS journal. |