{"id":20740,"date":"2020-03-05T13:24:56","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T13:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/people\/mitchell-clive\/"},"modified":"2024-01-26T09:44:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-26T09:44:02","slug":"mitchell-clive","status":"publish","type":"person","link":"https:\/\/www.bgs.ac.uk\/people\/mitchell-clive\/","title":{"rendered":"Clive Mitchell"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t\t
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Summary<\/h2>\n

Clive is a senior Industrial Minerals Geologist with 35 years\u2019 experience of capacity building, resource assessment, technical evaluation, mineral processing, and critical and battery raw material research in the UK and overseas. His role has included project leader; industrial minerals geologist; small-scale mining research; industrial commodity market research; training and workshop co-coordinator; and development of field-testing and reconnaissance methodologies.<\/p>\n

Clive is responsible for developing business opportunities and leading BGS industrial minerals research projects including industrial mineral resource evaluation, institutional strengthening, capacity building, training, workshops and mineral promotion. His industrial minerals experience includes: aggregate, andalusite, brick clay, dimension stone, dolostone (dolomite), feldspar, graphite, garnet, gypsum, kaolin, limestone, mica, mineral sand, marble, perlite, phosphates, quarry fines, silica sand and talc. Projects in Afghanistan, Angola, Botswana, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Indonesia, Ireland, Kenya, Malawi, Malaysia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Thailand, Trinidad, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Zambia and Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n

Clive is currently researching critical and battery raw materials, in particular graphite resources in Zambia, for the net zero transition, clay resources for use as Supplementary Cementitious Materials (SCM), mineral waste and sand mining. He is Research & Innovation Challenge lead for the \u2018Resources for the Future\u2019 projects in the BGS International Geoscience Research & Development (IGRD) programme. Clive is an experienced geoscience communicator and active participant in community & public engagement activities, science events, social media channels, filming programmes, media interviews and other opportunities to engage the public with geoscience. Regular presenter at conferences\/ workshops, most recently on \u2018Fuelling the Foundation Industries: discovering the hidden value of mineral waste in the UK\u2019 as part of the 2nd International Conference on Raw Materials and Circular Economy (Athens, Greece August 2023).<\/p>\n

Clive is a Chartered Geologist (CGeol) with the Geological Society of London and a member of the British Standards Institute (BSI) technical committee for test methods for construction aggregate. He is secretary of Extractive Industry Geology (www.eigconferences.com<\/a>, next conference September 2024 University of Hull) and manager of www.MineralsUK.com<\/a> .<\/p>\n

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