[cid:9df5032e-86fe-400a-bf18-95db20c269cf] Dear Colleagues, The deadline to submit travel grants for the North American Workshop on Critical Mineral Research, Development and Education is approaching. Travel grants close on May 30, 2025. Travel grant applications are open and can be found here<https://www.jsg.utexas.edu/critical-minerals-workshop/travel-grants/>. Abstract submissions close June 8, 2025. Early bird registration closes June 25, 2025. Thanks to funding by the National Science Foundation (NSF), we are able to offer travel grants to students and early-career researchers to attend the workshop. The North American Workshop on Critical Mineral Research, Development and Education<https://www.jsg.utexas.edu/critical-minerals-workshop/> will be held on August 13-14, 2025, in the Thompson Conference Center<https://thompsoncenter.utexas.edu/> on The University of Texas at Austin campus in Austin, Texas, USA. Register here for the workshop<https://www.jsg.utexas.edu/critical-minerals-workshop/registration/> Keynote Speakers [cid:fed41380-5aad-4b65-a9f5-ee8e548e6c67] Technical Sessions Session 1: Conventional and unconventional sources of critical minerals Session 2: Critical Minerals Workforce Development: How to grow the US critical minerals workforce Session 3: Towards a Circular Economy: Innovations in critical mineral extraction and recycling Session 4: Policy & Supply Chain Economics: Aligning Perceptions and Expectations of Policy-Makers and Stakeholders in the Critical Minerals Sector Workshop Dinner A workshop dinner will be held in the Texas Science & Natural History Museum<https://sciencemuseum.utexas.edu/events/private> on the evening of August 13th. The workshop dinner is sponsored by ElementUSA<https://www.elementusaminerals.com/>. [cid:a0542d5b-6900-4c41-9aa1-da9a38a1b05e] We look forward to welcoming you to the Live Music Capital of the World<https://www.austintexas.org/> and the UT Austin campus in August 2025! Kind regards, Marek Locmelis Workshop Chair --- To unsubscribe, please send an email with the subject ‘unsubscribe’ to locmelis@jsg.utexas.edu --- Marek Locmelis, Associate Professor The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences & Bureau of Economic Geology