Experts converge at S&T to discuss solutions for nation’s critical minerals crisis
Posted by Kimber Crull
Photo: Eric Smith, center right, Tech Hubs program director for the U.S. Economic Development Administration (EDA), and Chad Eggen, front right, an EDA economic development representative, visit with Missouri S&T leaders during the university’s critical minerals national workshop. Photo by Terry Barner/Missouri S&T.
Experts from across the United States came together in August at Missouri S&T for the fourth annual Resilient Supply of Critical Minerals workshop funded by the National Science Foundation.
“Our nation’s dependence on the foreign supply of these minerals has truly reached a crisis level, and it will take an all-hands-on-deck approach like we facilitate at this workshop to find the best solutions,” says Dr. Kwame Awuah-Offei, S&T’s chair and Union Pacific/Rocky Mountain Energy professor of mining and explosives engineering.
“This workshop provides a venue for people involved in all stages of the critical minerals supply chain to come together to help solve our nation’s current challenges.”
Posted by Kimber Crull
