Keep up with our news and events.
Alessia Barbieri presents at SEG 2024 Conference
30/09/24
UCL-Wits critical minerals research partnership seed fund grant
13/09/24
Honorary Professorship for Dr Richard Sillitoe
21/08/24
Richard graduated from London University where he went on to earn a Ph.D. degree in 1968. He has operated for nearly five decades as an independent consultant to mining companies, international agencies, and foreign governments. He has worked on a wide variety of mineral deposits and prospects in 100 countries worldwide but focuses on the epithermal gold and porphyry copper environments. Published research has earned him awards in Europe, Australia, and North and South America, including the SGA-Newmont Gold Medal and the Penrose Gold Medal of the Society of Economic Geologists, of which he was President in 1999-2000.
Alessia Barbieri awarded SEG Graduate Student Fellowship
01/08/24
Congratulations to Alessia Barbieri, one of our PhD students, who was awarded a prestigious SEG Graduate Student Fellowship to support her research in the first year of her PhD.
Alessia is researching controls on PGE mineralisation in the Platreef, a large platinum deposit which is part of the Northern Bushveld Complex in South Africa, supported by Ivanplats. Alessia has just returned from a successful field season at Ivanplats' mine site and core shed in South Africa where she was core logging and sampling to help understand how assimilated sediments affect mineralisation.
NERC TARGET Mineral Resources CDT PhD projects now open for application
10/12/23
UCL has several funded PhD projects available through the new NERC TARGET Mineral Resources CDT. The list of projects is available on our PhD Opportunities page. The first cohort of students will start in October 2024, and the application deadline is 15th January 2024.
TARGET is the Training and Research Group for Energy Transition Mineral Resources, an UKRI-NERC sponsored Centre for Doctoral Training. TARGET will support the training and development of researchers engaged in the challenge of meeting the changing patterns of resource demand. As we move away from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources, and as the technology we use at home and at work evolves, we need greater amounts, and an increasingly diverse list of metals and minerals. TARGET will support interdisciplinary researchers through a comprehensive training programme to develop their skills in various aspects of meeting mineral resources challenge. The training will prepare doctoral candidates for a career at the forefront of mineral resources and the energy transition, whether their future is in academia, industry, or policy.
UCL-ERC Masters students present at SEG 2023 conference
30/08/23
Blake O'Sullivan and Linda Jakschies presented their MSc work "Understanding extreme weather-driven tailings risks and their impacts in Chile: a complex multi-hazard challenge" at the year's Society of Economic Geologists (SEG) conference SEG 2023: Resourcing the Green Transition in August. Blake and Linda undertook MSc projects researching climate change-driven extreme weather events in Chile and their effects on hazards associated with mine waste tailings storage facilities, in collaboration with CGG.