BEAUVOIR IMERYS LITHIUM COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH PROGRAMME

THE PROJECT/ The LabEX RESSOURCES21 scientific team is composed of ten permanent researchers, two post-doctoral and five doctoral researchers. The project comprises three major axes: First axis – Geology/ The actions of this axis of the project are aimed at establishing the relationship between the distribution and the content of rare and critical metals and magmatic and hydrothermal phenomena, along with the use of geological dating methods to understand the formation of pluton over time. Axe 2 – Characterization/ The actions of the second axis of the project are dedicated to: (1) the development of portable tools designed to detect and quantify in a fast and practical manner the rare and critical metals and (2) the establishment of the relationship between geochemistry and mineralogy of the studied rocks. Axis 3 – Processing options for metal recovery/ The third axis is dedicated to the development of a processing route suitable for the recovery of lithium-bearing minerals and phases-carriers of other rare metals such as, for example, Nb and Ta, using gravity and flotation separation methods, coupled with modelling tools.

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