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Meeting 2026 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition
Symposium Rare Metal Extraction & Processing
Sponsorship TMS Extraction and Processing Division
TMS: Hydrometallurgy and Electrometallurgy Committee
Organizer(s) Athanasios Karamalidis, Pennsylvania State University
Kerstin M. Forsberg, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Takanari Ouchi, University of Tokyo
Gisele Azimi, University of Toronto
Shafiq Alam, University of Saskatchewan
Neale R. Neelameggham, IND LLC
Alafara Abdullahi Baba, University of Ilorin
Hong Peng, University of Queensland
Scope This symposium will cover extraction of critical minerals, including rare metals, from primary and secondary sources, materials and residues, recycling of critical elements, as well as extraction processing techniques used in metal production.

The focus of this symposium will be on critical minerals, rare metals—less common metals or minor metals (those are not covered by other TMS symposia), such as antimony, bismuth, barium, beryllium, boron, calcium, chromium, gallium, germanium, hafnium, indium, lithium, manganese, molybdenum, platinum group metals, rare earth metals, rhenium, scandium, selenium, sodium, strontium, tantalum, tellurium, and tungsten.

Critical element processing will cover bio-metallurgy, hydro-metallurgy, and electro-metallurgy. Novel high-temperature processes such as biomimicking leaching and separation, external forces stimulated separations, microwave heating, solar-thermal reaction synthesis, and cold crucible synthesis of critical elements will be considered. Processing design of extraction technologies and equipment used in these processes will be included from industry, as well as laboratory and pilot plant studies.

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.

Abstracts Due 07/01/2025
Proceedings Plan Planned: Stand-alone book in which only your symposium’s papers would appear

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