From Lithium exploration to Gigafactories - LMS Liddiard Lecture 2022, a joint event with SCI The UK’s role in the European and global lithium market
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To be discussed:
Can the UK’s lithium mineral potential meet the growing demand of the domestic EV battery and energy storage, namely the Gigafactories under construction? In spite of the price explosion for imported Li compounds (carbonate & hydroxide), what are the main drivers of technological innovation for a sustainable value chain and affordable EV? What is the UK’s role and opportunities in the European and global lithium market? Are we doing enough to achieve the transition to a net-zero carbon green economy?
Agenda:
5.30 pm: Doors open, coffees and teas
6-6.30 pm: LMS AGM
6.30 - 7.10 pm: 2022 Liddiard lecture - Sean Sargent, Green Lithium and Jeremy Wrathall, Cornish Lithium
7.10-7.40 pm: Panel discussion with the speakers - Chaired by Prof Reimar Seltmann, Natural History Museum
7.40 pm: Refreshments and networking
Green Lithium - Company Introduction Green Lithium is building the UK’s first large-scale merchant lithium refinery, creating a secure supply of low-carbon lithium chemicals. Localisation of supply chains for metals critical to enable the energy transition has never been so important and security of supply of raw materials is fundamental for the longevity of downstream European battery manufacturers and automotive OEMs. We’re doing it greener and cleaner than the current supply chain and are targeting a zero-waste process, the by-products will be used in alternative industries and help form part of a circular economy. A cornerstone UK-green-infrastructure asset, our refinery will incorporate the latest clean-energy technology (hydrogen-gas-fuel, CCUS, waste-heat-recycling, etc.) to decarbonise the overall supply-chain. We have developed a merchant-refinery business model, assembled an exceptional leadership/delivery focussed team and are driving towards commissioning in 2025. Having secured a site in the UK, developed strong supply chain relationships and progressed other critical aspects of the project's Development phase we are targeting a construction start date in Q2-2023. If any of the attendees would like to know more about Green Lithium please follow our progress via LinkedIn or reach out through our website - www.greenlithium.co.uk/.
Sean Sargent, Chief Executive, Green Lithium Sean is the Chief Executive of Green Lithium. He trained as a Maritime Civil Engineer and is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Sean has worked in process and infrastructure programmes, predominantly in the nuclear industry, for the last 30 years. During this time, he was the Site Director at Berkeley Nuclear Power Station and Programme Director for a programme to retrieve, process and store intermediate level radioactive waste. Sean has worked for Jacobs Engineering during much of his career where, at different times, he led the nuclear new build business, the defence business and post-acquisition integration teams. Sean lives in Devon and enjoys hiking with his family and dog.
Cornish Lithium - Company Description Cornish Lithium is a highly innovative British mineral exploration and development company focussed on building a sustainable domestic supply of lithium and other battery metals in Cornwall, UK. Metals such as lithium are the key enablers of the transition to clean energy given their role in power storage batteries making such metals vital components of the future UK economy. The Company has secured extensive mineral rights agreements across more than 500km2 of Cornwall, enabling us to use modern exploration techniques on a regional basis. The Company is actively developing lithium production facilities from geothermal brines and from hard rock using low carbon extraction techniques. For more details please see our website www.cornishlithium.com and follow us on Twitter @CornishLithium Jeremy Wrathall – Founder and CEO – Cornish Lithium Ltd. Jeremy Wrathall is the Founder and Chief Executive of Cornish Lithium, a company he started in 2016 to develop opportunities to extract lithium and other battery metals in Cornwall. Jeremy initially trained as a mining engineer at the world-renowned Camborne School of Mines in Cornwall and commenced his career in the South African gold mining industry. He then embarked upon an investment banking career, starting as a mining analyst in 1988 and progressing to various senior roles including Global Head of Mining Equities at Deutsche Bank and Head of Global Natural Resources at Investec Bank. He has a strong technical understanding of commodities, capital markets, mining and geology and has visited mining projects worldwide. Jeremy is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining. Panel Chair: Prof. Dr. Reimar Seltmann PhD MSc SEGF MLS IAGOD-HLM Prof. Dr. Reimar Seltmann PhD MSc SEGF MLS IAGOD-HLM (PhD 1987 Bergakademie Freiberg) is a Research Leader in Ore Deposits and Petrology at the Natural History Museum, London, U.K., and Founder/Head of CERCAMS (Centre for Russian and Central Eurasian Mineral Studies) at the new Centre for Resourcing the Green Economy of the Natural History Museum London. He has almost 40 years of experience in studies of the anatomy of ore-bearing granitic systems of Transeurasian metallogenic belts, with special interest in fluid-saturation textures and magmatic-hydrothermal transition processes of granite-ore systems. His mineral deposits research covers a wide range, encompassing economic geology, igneous petrology, processing mineralogy (geometallurgy) of critical rare materials, and geochemistry of mineralized felsic systems, with regional focus on geodynamic and metallogenic processes in ore districts of collisional belts and extensional settings. Published case studies cover mostly rare metal Li-F granites, rare metal pegmatites and porphyry mineral systems of European Variscides and Uralides-Altaids (Central Asian Orogenic Belt). His track record counts more than 500 research papers to date, including more than 140 publications in peer-review journals (Scopus h-39) and more than 30 edited reference books and special issues of geoscience journal. Reimar Seltmann is a member of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin since 2011, a Honorary Life Member of IAGOD (2018), and SEG Fellow (2001). He holds multiple positions as Visiting Professor in Kazakhstan and China and is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland. He has co-/led NHM research in several projects: IUGS-IGCP (four 5-year grants since 1997) and INTAS network research, EC h2020 funded FAME, UKRI FBC funded Li4UK. He is currently a Co-Investigator on the NERC projects FAMOS and LiFT, and a Think Tank member of the EC h2020 GREENPEG project. About the Liddiard Memorial Lecture 
