He is an industrial minerals specialist with 24 years experience of capacity building, resource assessment, technical evaluation, mineral processing and small-scale mining research in the UK and overseas. His role has included project leader; industrial minerals geologist; small-scale mining reviewer; market research, training and workshop co-coordinator; and development of field testing methods.

He has coordinated the reconnaissance, field sampling, characterisation (mineralogical, chemical & physical property testing), mineral processing, product evaluation, dissemination workshops and investment promotion on many industrial minerals projects. This has included brick clay, construction aggregate, dimension stone, dolomite, feldspar, graphite, garnet- & andalusite-schists, gypsum, kaolin, limestone, marble, mica, mineral sand, perlite, phosphates, quarry waste & fines, sand & gravel, silica sand and talc-magnesite schist. He has worked on projects in Afghanistan, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Ireland, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Thailand, Trinidad, Uganda, Ukraine, UAE, UK, and Zambia.

Clive is an experienced communicator and has presented at over 40 conferences. He also manages the BGS MineralsUK website. Clive is the chairman of the organising committee for the Extractive Industry Geology (EIG) conference.

Biography

Currently: Head of Corporate Communications & Publications; Industrial Minerals Specialist; Press Officer; MineralsUK manager; Chairman for the Extractive Industry Geology (EIG) conference to be held at the University of St. Andrews in 2014.
2009 –2012 : Task leader for the dimension stone resource assessment project in the UAE
2008 –2012 : Task Leader for the high-purity limestone assessent project in the UAE
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

Research on Frac Sand resources in the UK; Collaboration with the geological surveys of Saudi Arabia and The Gambia; industrial mineral resource evaluation work in the UK and sub-Saharan Africa; Aggregate Carbon Demand research.

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 (AGID)

Research interests

Frac Sand resources in the UK
Embodied-energy & CO₂ consumption in aggregate production
Industrial Minerals
Mineral Processing
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, Clive John; Mitchell, Paul; Pascoe, RD. 2008. Quarry fines minimisation: can we really have 10mm aggregate with no fines? In: Walton, Geoffrey, (ed.) Proceedings of the 14th Extractive industry geology conference. EIG Conferences, 37-44, 109pp.

Mitchell, Clive. 2009. Quarry fines and waste In: Quarries & Mines 2009. Ten Alps, 63-67, 5pp. (Quarries & Mines).

Mitchell, Clive. 2011. High purity limestone quest Industrial Minerals, 531. 48-51.

Mitchell, C.J. 2012. Aggregate carbon demand: the hunt for low carbon aggregate . In: Extractive Industry Geology, Portsmouth, UK, 8-11 Sept 2010. EIG Conferences.

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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