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Postdoc available – using electrokinesis to remediate mine wastes

Posted on 7th Dec, 2021 by Laura Newsome

We’re recruiting for a postdoc to come work with us in lovely Cornwall and investigate using electricity to clean up mine wastes! Part of the NERC Sustainable Mineral Resources in the Philippines. Apply by 25 Jan.  For full details click… Continue Reading →

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Postdoc available LiFT: Lithium for Future Technology

Posted on 10th Dec, 2020 by Laura Newsome

We’re recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to participate in the NERC consortium project LiFT: Lithium for Future Technology (https://twitter.com/Li4FutureTech). This NERC funded post is available 1 May 2021 to 30 April 2023. The project aims to better understand the Earth… Continue Reading →

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Lithium for Future Technology

Posted on 27th Nov, 2020 by Laura Newsome

We have just been awarded a NERC highlight topic grant for ‘Lithium for Future Technology’. This is a consortium led by the British Geological Survey with many academic and industrial partners. The project will research how to ensure a sustainable… Continue Reading →

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PhD available – The influence of subsurface microbiology on geoenergy systems

Posted on 5th Nov, 2020 by Laura Newsome

A geoenergy renaissance is required for a low carbon economy and energy security of supply. Geoenergy systems that have been proposed include disused coal workings for district heating (see image below, https://www.ukgeos.ac.uk/) granites for geothermal electricity and combined energy and… Continue Reading →

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PhD available – Natural biogeochemistry of lithium: resource formation, biorecovery and environmental impacts

Posted on 5th Nov, 2020 by Laura Newsome

Lithium will power our low-carbon future. It is essential for lightweight batteries used to store renewable energy and power electric cars. There are three main sources of lithium: geothermal brines found in granite bedrock, brines sourced from salt lakes (see… Continue Reading →

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Commonwealth PhD scholarships

Posted on 25th Jun, 2020 by Laura Newsome

PhD scholarships are available for excellent students from ‘high income’ Commonwealth countries.  Do you fit the bill and have an interest in research on: the behaviour of metals in the environment, the interactions of metals with minerals and microbes, mine… Continue Reading →

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PhD opportunity for self funded students

Posted on 28th Apr, 2020 by Laura Newsome

Do microbes help make china clay? Kaolin minerals are very important economic resources; so much so that china clay has sometimes been referred to as “white gold”. Understanding how kaolin minerals form and behave in the environment is important because… Continue Reading →

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What is the future of mining? Is it possible to extract metals from the subsurface with radically less (ideally zero) mine waste??????

Posted on 10th Mar, 2020 by Richard Andrew Crane

Rich Crane and colleagues from the EM3 Research Group and the University of Western Australia are currently investigating how we can apply novel methods to inject acids into the subsurface and then precisely control their movement using an electric field… Continue Reading →

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GeoNetZero Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT): UK legacy mine waste: a new Critical Metal resource for the Green Economy?

Posted on 10th Mar, 2020 by Laura Newsome

Check out http://www.exeter.ac.uk/studying/funding/award/?id=3882

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