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Mr Clive Mitchell

Mr Clive Mitchell Industrial Minerals Specialist

Location: Keyworth

Tel: 0115 936 3257

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Biography

Currently: Head of Communications; Industrial Minerals Specialist; Press Officer; MineralsUK manager; Task Leader for ‘Limestone resource’ & 'Dimension Stone resource' assessments (UAE project)
2005 –2008 : Project Leader of ‘Institutional strengthening of the Afghanistan Geological Survey’ (DfID)
2004 –2008 : Project Leader of ‘Quarry Fines Minimisation’ and ‘Waterless Fines Removal’ (Aggregate Levy Sustainability Fund)
1999 –2005 : Project leader of ‘FarmLime: Low-cost lime for small-scale farming’ (DfID KaR)
1996 –1998 : Project Leader of ‘Local development of affordable lime in southern Africa’ (DfID KaR)
1989 –1995 : Recruited by BGS; working on DfID KaR projects in sub-Saharan Africa; plus mineral evaluation and mineral processing
1987 : MSc University of Hull, Industrial Mineralogy
1985 : BSc University of Nottingham, Geology (Hons)

Current projects and collaboration

2008 –2011 : Task Leader of ‘Limestone resource evaluation’ and 'Dimension stone assessment' for the BGS ‘UAE Mapping and Airborne Survey’ project

Skills

Communications
Industrial mineral evaluation
Mineral processing
Project leadership

Professional association

Association of British Science Writers (ABSW)
Fellow of the Geological Society of London
Member of the Association of Geoscientists in Development (AGD)

Research interests

Industrial Minerals
Mineral Processing
Embodied-energy & CO₂ consumption in aggregate production
Small-scale mining

Published outputs

NERC Open Research Archive — Clive Mitchell

Key papers

Mitchell, C J and Benham, A. 2008. Afghanistan: revival and redevelopment. Industrial Minerals, 489, 58-63.

Mitchell, C J and Benham, A. 2010. On the road to Qalamkar: The block seller of Kabul. In: Scott, P W and Walton, G. (eds). Proceedings of the 15th Extractive Industry Geology Conference, 87-91

Mitchell, C J. 2005. FarmLime: low-cost lime for small-scale farming. From Marker, B R, Petterson, M G, McEvoy, F & Stephenson, M H (eds). 2005. Sustainable Minerals Operations in the Developing World. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 250, 121–126.

Mitchell, C J, Harrison, D J, Robinson, H L and Ghazireh, N. 2003. Minerals from Waste: recent BGS and Tarmac experience in finding uses for mine and quarry waste. Minerals Engineering, 17, 2004. 279–284.

Mitchell, C J. 2002. Field evaluation of fine-grained industrial minerals. From Scott, P W & Bristow, C M (eds). Industrial Minerals and Extractive Industry Geology. Geological Society, London, 235–238.

Mitchell, C J. 1994. Laboratory evaluation of kaolin: a case study from Zambia. From Whateley, M K G & Harvey, P K (eds). 1994. Mineral Resource Evaluation II: Methods and Case Histories, Geological Society Special Publication No. 79, 241–247.

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