Climate change mitigation and critical metals; future challenges and opportunities for the minerals industry

Speaker: Dr Simon Jowitt, University of Nevada Las Vegas

Abstract: Humanity currently mines more metal and minerals than ever before. However, climate change mitigation combined with consumer and investment sentiment is already leading to a rapid increase in demand for a variety of metals above the underlying trend of increasing production. These drivers are likely to dominate mining over the short to medium term and represent major challenges and opportunities for the future of the minerals industry.

Bio: Simon Jowitt is an economic geologist who is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. He obtained BSc, MSc, and PhD degrees in the UK and spent eight years at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia before moving to his current position. His research interests include ore deposit formation, mineral economics and exploration, critical metal resources and security of supply issues, the geochemistry of mineralising systems and the links between magmatism and metallogeny. Simon has published more than 85 papers since 2010 and was awarded the Society of Economic Geologists Waldemar Lindgren Award in 2014