FMF Knowledge Exchange Agenda

PANEL SESSION: Enabling 4.0 technologies to accelerate mineral project delivery and reduce costs

Innovation

PRESENTATION: Presentation by Global Battery Alliance

Sustainability

PANEL SESSION: Overcoming processing complexity for rare-earth elements (REE): Rethinking barriers to meet growing demand

Innovation

PANEL SESSION: Circular economy: Strategies for maximizing resource efficiency, recovering critical minerals from waste, and enabling closed-loop systems

Sustainability

PANEL SESSION: Startups and disruptors: Latest developments in technology for a step change in mineral development

Innovation

PANEL SESSION: Mine waste management: Innovations and best practices for minimizing, reusing, and responsibly managing mining waste.

Sustainability

PANEL SESSION: Are we making progress in decarbonizing mineral production? What more needs to be done?

Innovation

PRESENTATION: Building trusted and reliable mineral corridors for market transparency and minerals security: Saudi Arabia a prime model for a global minerals hub

Sustainability

PRESENTATION: Accelerating mineral resource development through geometallurgy and AI

Innovation

PANEL SESSION: What does best practice look like in sustainable mine water management? Focusing on water use, treatment methods & water stewardship

Sustainability

PANEL SESSION: Tackling the data challenge in geological surveying and exploration

Geology

PRESENTATION: From blue collar to white collar: Role of automation and robotics in addressing the shortage of skilled labor in remote mining locations

Policy & Talent

Lunch

PRESENTATION: Innovative exploration practices to develop deep sea mining resources

Geology

PANEL SESSION: How to resolve three key policy challenges to enable growth in mineral supply (permitting delays, cross border alignment, lack of capacity in regulatory agencies)

Policy & Talent

PRESENTATION: Requirements for building robust and accessible geological databases in emerging supplier countries

Geology

PANEL SESSION: Building resilient global supply chains: the role of Latin America

Policy & Talent

PRESENTATION: Effects of artificial aging and hydration on magnetic mineralogy in volcanic glasses

Geology

PANEL SESSION: What should policymakers take into consideration when assessing deep sea mining?

Policy & Talent

PRESENTATION: Utilizing emerging technologies for mineral deposit predictions: new insights from geodynamic models

Geology

PANEL SESSION: Building regional capabilities and skills in the critical minerals value chain

Policy & Talent

PRESENTATION: Risks facing minerals supply: Where to start with the upstream

Geology

Details to be announced

Policy & Talent