Conference: CAS - Climate: Resilient Supply of Critical Minerals, Rolla, MO, August 9-10, 2023

2019年，美国国务院履行了2017年的一项总统行政命令，确定了35种对美国经济和国家安全至关重要的“关键矿产”。新的2022年清单包括50种关键矿产，而美国对这些大宗商品的大部分仍依赖进口。从关键矿物列表中删除材料需要多学科的方法，包括矿物勘探，物质流分析，可持续性，采矿方法，公共政策，矿物经济学，提取冶金学和生产过程。为了给代表这些学科的学术界、私营部门和政府机构的利益相关者提供一个平台，密苏里大学将于2023年8月9日至10日在密苏里州罗拉的大学校园里召开一次关于“关键矿物的弹性供应”的面对面研讨会。主题专题会议将从跨学科、融合的角度讨论关键矿物的弹性供应，包括矿物勘探和来源多样化、矿物加工和回收、政策制定和资源可持续性。在各自领域的国家领导人将发表主题演讲，随后是ted式的演讲、小组讨论和分组讨论。分组会议将安排跨学科参与，提供一个包括经济、技术、社会和政策方面的融合视角。研究路线图将检查和评估临界概念，并认识到提高供应弹性所需技术的跨学科性质。讲习班的调查结果将在一份讲习班报告中加以总结和散发。这次讲习班的面对面形式将有助于发展和培养来自学术界、政府机构和私营部门的与会者之间的个人关系，从而促进关键矿物研究方面的多学科合作。提高关键矿产供应链的弹性对美国经济和国防仍然很重要。现有的研究尚未完全跨越可用于增强供应链弹性的方法的多学科性质。与关键矿物有关的地质、采矿工程、冶金、经济、环境和社会组成部分通常单独讨论，不同领域之间很少衔接。这次面对面的研讨会将通过为来自工业、学术界和政府的工程师、地球科学家、经济学家和政治学家提供一个平台来解决这一差距，否则他们很少见面。研讨会组织者将准备一份全面的报告，该报告可用于为提高供应链弹性的决策提供信息，范围从矿产勘探、分离和恢复到环境和社会影响，以及政治进程。讲习班将有助于培育一个新兴的国家社区，在关键矿物供应弹性方面拥有广泛的专门知识，涵盖学术界、工业界和政府实体。旅行资助，特别是对学生和早期职业研究人员的资助，将有助于建立一个跨越几代人的社区，并确保会议的持久影响。一个健康、活跃的关键矿产社区的发展对国家安全和经济至关重要，因为美国目前对关键矿产清单上的大多数商品都依赖进口。本次研讨会将制定并发布路线图，以指导逐步减少对个别关键矿产进口依赖的努力，从而加强美国的经济竞争力。此外，本次研讨会将深入了解美国大学如何满足未来对国家关键矿产劳动力的预计需求，特别是在最有可能包含未发现资源的农村地区。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

In 2019, the Department of State fulfilled a 2017 Presidential Executive Order and identified 35 "critical minerals" that are vital to the U.S. economy and national security. The newer 2022 list includes 50 critical minerals and the U.S. remains import reliant for most of these commodities. Removing materials from the critical minerals list requires a multi-disciplinary approach that encompasses mineral exploration, material flow analysis, sustainability, mining methods, public policy, mineral economics, extractive metallurgy, and production process. To provide a platform for stakeholders from academia, the private sector, and government agencies that represent these disciplines, Missouri S&T University will convene an in-person workshop on “Resilient Supply of Critical Minerals’ on the university's campus in Rolla, MO, on August 9-10, 2023. Themed topical sessions will discuss the resilient supply of critical minerals from cross-disciplinary, convergent perspectives, including mineral exploration and source diversification, mineral processing and recycling, policy making, and resource sustainability. National leaders in their respective fields will give keynote presentations, followed by TED-style talks, panel discussions, and breakout sessions. The breakout sessions will be structured for interdisciplinary engagement, to provide a convergent perspective that includes economic, technical, social, and policy aspects. Research road maps will examine and evaluate the concept of criticality and recognize the cross-disciplinary nature of techniques required to enhance supply resilience. The workshop findings will be summarized and disseminated in a workshop report. The in-person format of this workshop will help to develop and nurture personal relationships between participants from academia, government agencies, and the private sector – thereby facilitating multi-disciplinary collaborations in critical minerals research. Increasing critical mineral supply chain resiliency remains important to the U.S. economy and defense. Existing research has yet to span fully the multi-disciplinary nature of approaches available to enhance supply chain resilience. Geologic, mining engineering, metallurgic, economic, environmental, and social components associated with critical minerals are usually discussed separately with little convergence among the different fields. This in-person workshop will address this gap by providing a platform for engineers, geoscientists, economists, and political scientists from industry, academia, and the government that rarely meet otherwise. The workshop organizers will prepare a comprehensive report that can be used to inform decision-making in pursuit of increasing supply chain resilience, ranging from mineral exploration, separation, and recovery to environmental and social impacts, as well as political processes. The workshop will help nurture an emerging national community with a wide range of expertise in critical mineral supply resilience, spanning academic, industry, and government entities. Travel grants, particularly for students and early-career researchers, will help build a community that spans generations and ensure the meeting's lasting impact. The development of a healthy and active critical mineral community is pivotal to national security and the economy because the U.S. is currently import-reliant for most of the commodities on the critical minerals list. This workshop will develop and publish roadmaps for guiding efforts to gradually decrease import reliance for individual critical minerals, thereby strengthening the economic competitiveness of the U.S. Further, this workshop will generate insights into how U.S. universities can meet the projected future demands for the nation's critical minerals workforce, particularly in rural areas which are most likely to contain undiscovered resources.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.