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Critical Minerals Exploration Department

Critical Minerals Exploration trains students to explore and evaluate minerals essential to the energy transition — lithium, rare earths, cobalt, nickel, and graphite. Students learn to interpret geochemical and geophysical data to assess resource potential and practice exploration simulation to internalize the full assessment workflow. By studying geometallurgical process modeling, graduates leave equipped not only to estimate reserves but to optimize recovery — spanning the entire exploration-to-development pipeline.

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Field-based Curriculum · 15

This department's curriculum is built directly on the GeoVerse Lab research fields its professors hold — click a field to see how it is taught.

Lithium Brine & Evaporite Geochemistry
Lithium Brine & Evaporite Geochemistry
Teaching the chemical-divide theory by which evaporation drives closed-basin sal…
Hans P. Eugster
Pegmatite-Hosted Lithium (LCT Pegmatites)
Pegmatite-Hosted Lithium (LCT Pegmatites)
This course teaches the fractional crystallisation and volatile enrichment that …
Richard H. Jahns
Rare Earth Element (REE) & Carbonatite Deposits
Rare Earth Element (REE) & Carbonatite Deposits
This course teaches how carbonatite magmas concentrate rare earth elements and s…
Waldemar Christofer Brøgger
Nickel-Cobalt Laterite Deposits
Nickel-Cobalt Laterite Deposits
This course teaches how intense tropical weathering residually concentrates nick…
Jules Garnier
Magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE Sulfide Deposits
Magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE Sulfide Deposits
Teaching immiscible sulfide-liquid separation and the R-factor, this course expl…
Hans Schneiderhöhn
Porphyry Copper Deposits & Mass Mining
Porphyry Copper Deposits & Mass Mining
Teaching both the formation of large low-grade porphyry copper deposits and the …
Daniel C. Jackling
Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide (VMS) Deposits
Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide (VMS) Deposits
Teaching the seafloor hydrothermal model behind volcanogenic massive sulfide dep…
Frederick Leslie Ransome
Iron Oxide Copper-Gold (IOCG) Deposits & Hydrothermal Ore Classification
Iron Oxide Copper-Gold (IOCG) Deposits & Hydrothermal Ore Classification
Using the IOCG deposit class and its recognition history, this course teaches hy…
Waldemar Lindgren
Graphite & Battery Anode Minerals
Graphite & Battery Anode Minerals
Linking graphite's crystal structure to its battery-anode application, this cour…
J. D. Bernal
Geostatistics & Ore Reserve Estimation
Geostatistics & Ore Reserve Estimation
Centred on the variogram and kriging, this course teaches geostatistics for ore …
Georges Matheron
Geochemical Exploration & Crustal Element Abundance
Geochemical Exploration & Crustal Element Abundance
Teaching that geochemical anomalies are defined relative to background, this cou…
Frank Wigglesworth Clarke
Applied Geophysical Exploration for Minerals
Applied Geophysical Exploration for Minerals
This course teaches mineral-exploration geophysics, detecting physical-property …
Victor Vacquier
Mineral Processing & Froth Flotation
Mineral Processing & Froth Flotation
This course teaches the principles of mineral processing from comminution and li…
Antoine Marc Gaudin
Mineral Economics & Critical Mineral Supply
Mineral Economics & Critical Mineral Supply
Teaching that mineral resources are functional products of knowledge, technology…
Erich Zimmermann
Isotope Geochemistry & Radiometric Provenance
Isotope Geochemistry & Radiometric Provenance
This course teaches radiogenic isotope ratios as tools that date ore formation a…
Clair Cameron Patterson