[cid:d04e1d34-1244-476e-b87a-7ecf8a6589f1] Dear Colleagues, We are excited to announce that the inaugural 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 campus of the University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas, USA. The workshop will be in-person. An online option will be available. Technical sessions will include keynote talks, as well as oral and poster presentations by participants. Deadlines for submission and registration will be announced in Spring 2025. Keynote speaker announcements will be released in late February 2025. Registration will open in March 2025. Please visit our website https://www.jsg.utexas.edu/critical-minerals-workshop/ for announcements and updates as the workshop details are finalized. Join our mailing list here<https://utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6YzdQdm8v7cAqiO> Technical Sessions Session 1: Conventional and unconventional sources of critical minerals Session 2: Critical Minerals Workforce Development: How to grow the 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>. 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 Marek Locmelis, Associate Professor The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences & Bureau of Economic Geology