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Many minerals are critical to civilization, but some are more critical than others! From the University of Arizona, Isabel will talk about how society’s mineral needs have evolved over time, what makes minerals critical or not, and how technological and geopolitical changes can suddenly make a mineral critical – or just as suddenly, render it useless.
Isabel Barton
Bio
Isabel Barton is an Assistant Professor in the Mining & Geological Engineering department at the University of Arizona. Her main research focus is geometallurgy, which brings extractive metallurgy, geology, mineralogy, and mining together to improve the efficiency of resource extraction. She has graduate degrees in ore deposits geology and extractive metallurgy and works with geologists, mineralogists, materials scientists, anthropologists, and many others across campus on interdisciplinary research and teaching initiatives with the School for Mining & Mineral Resources.
This lecture is part of the Lundin-Snider Seminar Series. A recording will be available shortly after the presentation.