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Sand coloured stone with clear grey specles of graphite.
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Zambia’s first critical minerals guide supports the country’s potential in global clean energy transition

18/07/2025

A new guide to Zambia’s critical minerals highlights the country’s current and potential critical mineral resources, including cobalt and lithium.

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Day one of fieldwork on the EGRET project, heading to the Fraser Lakes REE-enriched pegmatites on a float plane from La Ronge.
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Funding awarded to UK/Canadian critical mineral research projects

08/07/2025

BGS is part of a groundbreaking science partnership aiming to improve critical minerals mining and supply chains.

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Fieldwork setting up the Abergavenny geomagnetic repeat station BGS © UKRI.
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NERC Tech Forum 2025

Event on 03/06/2025

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Indian delegates and BGS staff outside BGS’s headquarters in Keyworth, Nottinghamshire. BGS © UKRI.
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BGS hosts India for ‘deep dive’ on carbon capture and storage

30/07/2025

Some of India’s top scientists visited BGS to explore the UK’s carbon dioxide storage research potential.

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Dr Marie Cowan awarded the Energy Group Medal by the Geological Society

18/05/2023

This award is presented annually to individuals with a geoscience background who have made an outstanding contribution to the energy industry.

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Exterior image of the James Hutton Building, BGS Keyworth. BGS © UKRI
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BGS appoints new members to Science Advisory Committee

17/05/2023

Four new members’ three-year terms begin in June 2023.

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Collaboration, progress and emerging themes in mine-water heating, cooling and storage

17/05/2023

BGS, the Coal Authority and IEA Geothermal held the third Mine Water Energy Symposium to enhance collaboration and knowledge exchange around the world.

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BGS Strategy 2023 to 2028
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BGS Virtual Strategy Launch – Understanding our Earth

Event on 23/05/2023

Join us online to learn more about our new BGS strategy 2023 to 2028 - Understanding our Earth

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AGS file utilities tool: production release

16/05/2023

BGS’s online tool for validating AGS files against the official AGS data format rules and its own NGDC data submission requirements goes live.

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Argyllshire sheet 84, solid and drift, 1:10 560, 1914. BGS © UKRI
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BGS releases 10K maps through updated maps portal

16/05/2023

BGS releases an updated maps portal, which allows users to view all publicly available maps, and includes 10 000 and 1:10 560 scale maps for the first time.

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BGS maps out priorities with five-year strategy

11/05/2023

BGS publishes its new strategy for 2023 to 2028, 'Understanding our Earth'.

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BGS’s Emrys Phillips examining the Stone of Scone at Edinburgh Castle in 1998. BGS © UKRI.
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The Stone of Destiny

03/05/2023

The origins of the Stone of Scone: where it came from, why BGS has crumbs of it in its collections and the little-known fact that it is upside down.

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