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Environment and Sustainability Institute

The Future of Mining in Cornwall

Friday 30 June 2023, 3 - 5pm

This was an Environment and Sustainability Institute (ESI), the Department of Earth and Environmental Science (DEES) and the  Interdisciplinary Circular Economy Centre for Technology Metals (Met4Tech) event.

The Camborne School of Mines (CSM), within the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences (DEES) has been leading research on critical metals for many years, in partnership with local government, exploration companies and NGOs. In one of the current projects, the Interdisciplinary Circular Economy Centre for Technology Metals (Met4Tech), is working with CSM and its partners to investigate how circular economy principles can be embedded within geomodels, in order to achieve a sustainable technology critical metals industry in Cornwall and elsewhere. This #esi10 event gave participants an update, using publicly available information, on exploration activities in Cornwall and on the research in Met4Tech that is building future circular economy scenarios for sustainable mining in Cornwall. The meeting gave attendees an opportunity to share ideas and build new collaborations about renewed mining in our county.

Agenda

2.30 - 3.00pm

Tea/ Coffee

3.00 - 3.10pm

Welcome

Professor Karen Hudson-Edwards, ESIDEESMet4Tech

3.10 - 3.30pm

Circular economy scenarios for sustainable mining in Cornwall

Dr Eva Marquis, ESI, DEES, Met4Tech

3.30 - 3.45pm

Update on lithium exploration

Lucy Crane, Cornish Lithium

3.45 - 4.00pm

Update on tin exploration

Sam Bolton, Cornish Metals

4.00 - 4.15pm

Update on tungsten exploration

Dennis Rowland/ Rowan Thorne, Cornwall Resources

4.15 - 5.00pm Panel discussion and open floor for questions

View recording of event

We are proud to be celebrating the ESI’s first decade of successful operation and are holding a series of events to mark #esi10 throughout this academic year.