GeoVerse Lab
← Applied Geoscience Solutions Division

Critical Minerals Exploration Center

Assesses the potential of critical minerals for the energy transition — lithium, rare earths, cobalt, nickel, and graphite — through geochemical/geophysical data analysis and exploration simulation, modeling geometallurgical processes to optimize recovery.

⚙️ GeoVerse System Administration Division🖥️ AI & Computing Sciences Division🔬 Basic Sciences Division⚡ Intelligent Geophysical Exploration Division🛢️ Resource & Energy Engineering Division🌍 Applied Geoscience Solutions Division💼 Economics, Policy & Strategy Division🎓 Education & Training Development Division🚀 Innovation & International Collaboration Division
Oil & Gas Exploration Project CenterCritical Minerals Exploration CenterCarbon Capture & Storage Project CenterApplied Geothermal Energy Project CenterNuclear Waste Disposal Project CenterOffshore Wind Farm Project CenterEnvironmental Geoscience CenterGeohazards & Monitoring Project CenterLand Site Survey & Assessment CenterSpecial Applications Center
James Dwight Dana🔑
⭐ Center Chief
James Dwight Dana
Center Head
💡 Systematic mineralogy
Erich Zimmermann🔑
1888–1961
Erich Zimmermann
Researcher
💡 Founder of functional resource-economics theory ("World Resources and Industries", 1933)
🌍 Applied Geoscience Solutions DivisionCritical Minerals Exploration Center
Frank Wigglesworth Clarke🔑
1847–1931
Frank Wigglesworth Clarke
Researcher
💡 Founder of geochemistry; first systematic tabulation of the elemental abundance of Earth's crust ("The Data of Geochemistry")
🌍 Applied Geoscience Solutions DivisionCritical Minerals Exploration Center
Victor Vacquier🔑
1907–2009
Victor Vacquier
Researcher
💡 Inventor of the fluxgate magnetometer and pioneer of airborne magnetic exploration methods
🌍 Applied Geoscience Solutions DivisionCritical Minerals Exploration Center
J. D. Bernal🔑
1901–1971
J. D. Bernal
Researcher
💡 Determined the crystal structure of graphite using X-ray diffraction (1924)
🌍 Applied Geoscience Solutions DivisionCritical Minerals Exploration Center
Georges Matheron🔑
1930–2000
Georges Matheron
Researcher
💡 Founder of geostatistics and the theory of kriging
🌍 Applied Geoscience Solutions DivisionCritical Minerals Exploration Center
Waldemar Lindgren🔑
1860–1939
Waldemar Lindgren
Researcher
💡 Founder of American economic geology's genetic/depth-temperature classification of hydrothermal ore deposits ("Mineral Deposits", 1913)
🌍 Applied Geoscience Solutions DivisionCritical Minerals Exploration Center
Clair Cameron Patterson🔑
1922–1995
Clair Cameron Patterson
Researcher
💡 Determined the age of the Earth using lead-isotope geochronology (1956)
🌍 Applied Geoscience Solutions DivisionCritical Minerals Exploration Center
Jules Garnier🔑
1839–1904
Jules Garnier
Researcher
💡 Discovered nickel laterite (garnierite) ore in New Caledonia (1864); the mineral garnierite is named after him
🌍 Applied Geoscience Solutions DivisionCritical Minerals Exploration Center
Hans P. Eugster🔑
1925–1987
Hans P. Eugster
Researcher
💡 Founder of quantitative saline-lake brine evolution theory (Eugster-Hardie model)
🌍 Applied Geoscience Solutions DivisionCritical Minerals Exploration Center
Hans Schneiderhöhn🔑
1887–1962
Hans Schneiderhöhn
Researcher
💡 Founder of modern genetic ore deposit classification ("Die Erzlagerstätten der Erde")
🌍 Applied Geoscience Solutions DivisionCritical Minerals Exploration Center
Antoine Marc Gaudin🔑
1900–1974
Antoine Marc Gaudin
Researcher
💡 Founder of the scientific principles of froth flotation mineral processing ("Flotation", 1932)
🌍 Applied Geoscience Solutions DivisionCritical Minerals Exploration Center
Richard H. Jahns🔑
1915–1983
Richard H. Jahns
Researcher
💡 Co-developer of the Jahns-Burnham experimental model of pegmatite genesis (1969)
🌍 Applied Geoscience Solutions DivisionCritical Minerals Exploration Center
Daniel C. Jackling🔑
1869–1956
Daniel C. Jackling
Researcher
💡 Pioneer of open-pit mass mining of low-grade porphyry copper ore (Bingham Canyon, 1906)
🌍 Applied Geoscience Solutions DivisionCritical Minerals Exploration Center
Waldemar Christofer Brøgger🔑
1851–1940
Waldemar Christofer Brøgger
Researcher
💡 First scientific description of carbonatite igneous rocks (Fen Complex, 1921)
🌍 Applied Geoscience Solutions DivisionCritical Minerals Exploration Center
Frederick Leslie Ransome🔑
1868–1935
Frederick Leslie Ransome
Researcher
💡 Pioneer of ore-deposit genetic mapping and replacement/exhalative ore-genesis theory in early American economic geology
🌍 Applied Geoscience Solutions DivisionCritical Minerals Exploration Center