Grant Award View - GA189818
Mapping resources, demands and constraints to critical metal supplies
- GA189818-V2 - Variation to Grant (19-Apr-2023 )
- GA189818-V1 - Grant Value & Contact Phone Updated (6-Oct-2021 )
This project aims to assess the mineral resources of five metals needed for renewable energy transitions and map the potential impacts of their mining. It uses novel geochemical proxy models to build highly detailed resource databases and demonstrates a world-first use of cloud-computing power to assess worldwide satellite data of mine areas. Expected outcomes include in-depth knowledge of geological endowments and global-scale patterns of mining emerging to meet changing metal demands, plus the discovery of geological and socio-environmental constraints to future supplies. This will enhance government and industry capacities for de-risking metal supply chains, and facilitate more sophisticated land use planning of mining regions.