iCRAG is delighted to be returning to AME Roundup taking place virtually from January 18th-22nd 2021

Visit us at the 'Ireland - iCRAG and Geoscience Ireland' Booth in the Exhibitor's Hall from 5pm-midnight (GMT) every day  

For any queries please contact aoife.blowick@icrag-centre.org or aoife.brady@icrag-centre.org

Thank you to all attendees for joining us for a special panel discussion on the

"Critical Need for Primary Metals and their Availability in Europe"

 on Wednesday 20th January from 2-3pm PST (10-11pm GMT)

The opening presentation by Prof. Murray Hitzman is available to view here

iCRAG Raw Materials Research

To find out more about iCRAG's research in mineral exploration, critical materials and building materials please visit the Earth Resources Challenge page here.

Click here to find out more about iCRAG's analytical services.

Leading through Change: COVID-19 Response - Raw Materials Research in Real Time

Researchers at iCRAG carried out a study examining the immediate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the minerals sector workforce. Published in the Society of Economic Geology’s Discovery, the results reveal that the COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on people in the minerals sector by the end of April 2020, less than six months after the first cases occurred and within seven weeks of the declaration of a pandemic.

The full article is available here.

A presentation detailing the results of the study can be viewed here.

Videos

All iCRAG videos are available on our youtube channel here or click on individual videos below to view:

What is iCRAG's 3D Geological Model?

iCRAG's 3D Ireland Geological Model

iCRAG's ReSTore Summer School

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion in Geoscience (EDIG) Conference 15th-16th December 2020

Poster Presentations

Make sure to drop by the virtual poster session taking place every day and chat with our researchers:

Deportment of Energy-Critical Elements in Copper Ores from the Bingham Canyon Porphyry Cu-Mo-Au Deposit - Maurice Brodbeck

Columbite-tantalite and Cassiterite as Indicator Minerals for Lithium Pegmatites - David Kaeter

Lithostratigraphic mapping of a carbonate basin using high resolution aeromagnetic surveys combined with soil and drillhole geochemistry. - Helen Twigg

A selection of recent poster presentations by iCRAG researchers is available to view below individually or collectively here.

Trace element study of sulfides from Irish Zn-Pb deposits: Potential vector towards mineralization - Aileen Doran

Seismic reflection imaging of the Irish crust using ambient noise autocorrelations - Clara Gómez-García

The Re-Os Isotope System: Introduction, Applications, and Development - Danny Hnatyshin

Lithium pegmatites in southeast Ireland: A storehouse for critical metals - David Kaeter

Aggregate Potential of Irish South Coast Offshore Palaeovalleys (AggrePOP): Preliminary Results - Evan O'Mahony

Fingerprinting Volcanic Ash of the Irish Midlands - Hilde Koche

Vein-hosted Copper Deposits and Hydrothermal Processes of SW Ireland - Juergen Lang

Geochemical halos as a tool for exploration of Irish-type Zn-Pb deposits - Lola Yesares

The Distribution of Energy Critical and Precious Metals at the Scale of a Porphyry Copper Deposit - Maurice Brodbeck

Characterising Hydrothermal Alteration along the Rathdowney Trend, Ireland - Nicholas Vafeas

Irish offshore heavy mineral placer development and mineralogy - Siobhán Burke

The application of machine learning methods to aggregate geochemistry predicts quarry source location: a case study from the Irish aggregate industry - Tadhg Dornan

Oral Presentations

A selection of recent presentations by iCRAG researchers are available to view below:

iCRAG, Basins and Sustainable Metals - Search for the Circular Grail - Murray Hitzman

Introduction to Irish Pb-Zn Orefields - Murray Hitzman

The implication of fault-controlled fluid flow on sedimentary hosted mineral deposits - John Walsh

COVID-19 and the Raw Materials Sector: Impacts and Responses - Aileen Doran and David Kaeter

Research for Responsible and Sustainable Mineral Exploration and Production - Murray Hitzman

Publications

A selection of recent iCRAG publications are available to read below:

Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Minerals Sector: A Real Time Survey Murray Hitzman

Metasomatic High Field Strength Element, Tin, and Base Metal Enrichment Processes in Lithium Pegmatites from Southeast Ireland - David Kaeter

The application of machine learning methods to aggregate geochemistry predicts quarry source location: An example from Ireland - Tadhg Dornan

3-D Modeling of the Lisheen and Silvermines Deposits, County Tipperary, Ireland:Insights into Structural Controls on the Formation of Irish Zn-Pb Deposits - Roisin Kyne

The vein-hosted copper deposits of the Allihies mining area, SW Ireland; a new structural and chronological evaluation - Juergen Lang

Petrogenesis of the Lijiagou spodumene pegmatites in Songpan-Garze Fold Belt, West Sichuan, China: Evidence from geochemistry, zircon, cassiterite and coltan U-Pb geochronology and Hf isotopic compositions - Julian Menuge

Coupling Mineralogy, Textures, Stable and Radiogenic Isotopes in Identifying Ore-Forming Processes in Irish-Type Carbonate-Hosted Zn–Pb Deposits - Lola Yesares

Quantitative Data Extraction from Orthopyroxene Trace Element Maps and Its Potential to Examine the Formation of the UG2 Unit, Bushveld Complex - Maurice Brodbeck

Discriminating aggregate sources with in situ mineral chemistry: an Irish example - Tadhg Dornan

The magmatic–hydrothermal transition in rare-element pegmatites from southeast Ireland: LA-ICP-MS chemical mapping of muscovite and columbite–tantalite - David Kaeter

The vein-hosted copper deposits of the Allihies mining area, SW Ireland; a new structural and chronological evaluation - Juergen Lang

iCRAG: Innovation through Data

Find out more about iCRAG's available datasets here, click on the datasets below, or visit iCRAG's data page . For enquiries please contact info@icrag-centre.org