[cid:48f7303f-9ebd-4af5-8165-bb99d8406dbc] Dear Colleagues, We are excited to announce that, 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. Travel grant applications are now open and can be found here<https://www.jsg.utexas.edu/critical-minerals-workshop/travel-grants/>. Travel grant applications are due May 30. The North American Workshop on Critical Mineral Research, Development and Education 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/> 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 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