David Curries’s Biography
- 2023 to ongoing: minerals scientist, BGS
- 2022 to 2023: mineral resources petrologist, BGS
- 2017 to 2024: PhD geology, University of Glasgow
- 2013 to 2017: 1st class (Hons) BSc geology, University of Glasgow
Research interests
- Critical minerals
Current projects
- UK 2024 Criticality Assessment: identifying the raw materials that are crucial for the economic prosperity, national security and ongoing technological development of the UK, but have a significant risk of supply disruption
- Potential for critical raw material prospectivity in the UK: a mineral systems approach to UK critical raw material prospectivity
- Critical minerals potential of Zambia: guide to the geology, occurrences, exploration and mineral production: a collaborative guide to the critical minerals of Zambia in 2025
- Graphite reconnaissance fieldwork in Zambia and Brazil: geological fieldwork identifying graphite mineralisation, carrying out sample collection and subsequent laboratory analysis of materials collected
- Trace element analysis of sulfide mineralisation in the UK: LA-ICP-MS analysis of sphalerite, galena, chalcopyrite and pyrite for critical mineral identification and quantification
Reports
- Currie, D, and Elliott, H. 2024. The potential for platinum group elements in the UK. British Geological Survey Commissioned Report OR/24/009. (Nottingham, UK: British Geological Survey.)
- Currie, D, and Elliott, H. 2024. The potential for rare earth elements in the UK. British Geological Survey Commissioned Report OR/24/006. (Nottingham, UK: British Geological Survey.)
- Deady, E, Goodenough, K M, Currie, D, Lacinska, A, Grant, H, Patton, M, Cooper, M, Josso, P, Shaw, R A, Everett, P, and Bide, T. 2023. Potential for critical raw material prospectivity in the UK. British Geological Survey Commissioned Report CR/23/024N. (Nottingham, UK: British Geological Survey.)
- Idoine, N E, Raycraft, E R, Hobbs, S F, Everett, P, Evans, E J, Mills, A J, Currie, D, Horn, S, and Shaw, R A. 2024. World Mineral Production 2018-2022. (Nottingham, UK: British Geological Survey.)
- Mitchell, C J, and Currie, D. 2024. Graphite reconnaissance, Petauke, Eastern Province, Zambia, June 2023. British Geological Survey Open Report OR/23/038. (Nottingham, UK: British Geological Survey.)
- Mudd, G, Josso, P, Shaw, R, Luce, A, Singh, N, Horn, S, Bide, T, Currie, D, Elliott, H, Grant, H, Halkes, R, Idoine, N, Mitchell, C, Watkins, I, Price, F, and Petavratzi, E. 2024. UK 2024 Criticality Assessment. British Geological Survey Open Report OR/24/059. (Nottingham, UK: British Geological Survey.)
- Sinkana, F, Daka, M N, Currie, D, and Mitchell, C. 2025. Critical minerals potential of Zambia: guide to the geology, occurrences, exploration and mineral production. British Geological Survey Open Report OR/25/011. (Nottingham, UK: British Geological Survey.)
Key papers
- Gemmell, C A R, Neill, I, Wildman, M, MacRae, C, Currie, D, and Einsle, J F. New integrations of UPb zircon data from Caledonian intrusions in the Southern Uplands of Scotland. Lithos, Vols. 494–495, 107941. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2024.107941
- Györe, D, Di Nicola, L, Currie, D, and Stuart, F M. 2021. New system for measuring cosmogenic Ne in terrestrial and extra-terrestrial rocks. Geosciences, Vol. 11(8), 353. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences11080353
PhD
- Currie, D. 2024. Constraining ore genesis and palaeoclimate change using (U-Th)/He/Ne dating and stable isotope geochemistry. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.
- Mineralogy and petrology
- Geological fieldwork
- Economic geology
- Geochronology
- Geochemistry
- Science communication
- Scientific report writing and research for wide audiences