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Home Courses Critical Raw Materials: Managing Resources for a Sustainable Future Course materials Readings 5.2.1 Introduction to exploration

5.2.1 Introduction to exploration

Course subject(s) Module 5. Track I – Technical Solutions

We have learned that even if we increase our recycling rates substantially, a growing world population and technological change makes mining indispensable. In order to mine, one has to know where deposits of certain raw materials are. The process of searching for new deposits is called exploration. Our guest Paul Lusty from the British Geological Survey will talk about the dynamics of resource reserves and the role of exploration for critical raw materials.

photo of Paul Lusty

About our guest

Paul is a Chartered Geologist with >20 years’ experience in the international natural resources sector. As Principal Economic Geologist and Critical Raw Materials Lead, within Decarbonisation and Resource Management at the British Geological Survey he is responsible for delivering a research programme encompassing the entire lifecycle of mineral raw materials, which aims to improve security of supply and resource efficiency. This includes research on mineral deposit formation; collection of statistical data on raw materials and analysis; and a whole systems approach to raw materials supply chains. As an exploration geologist and researcher, he has worked on a range of mineral deposit types, including volcanogenic massive sulphides, platinum group element mineralisation, orogenic gold, intrusion-related gold systems and rare earth elements in granitic rocks. His most recent work focuses on the formation of deep-ocean mineral deposits and their potential as critical metal resources.

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