University of Leicester partners with BHP to discover nickel and copper deposits
Published by Will Owen,
Editor
Global Mining Review,
Researchers at the University of Leicester have signed a major research agreement with BHP to identify new areas for the discovery of metals critical to the electric vehicle (EV) revolution.
Dr David Holwell from the Centre for Sustainable Resource Extraction in the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, will work in partnership with BHP to explore deposits of nickel and copper.
The two-year project, ‘Craton Margin Exploration Targeting 4D’, also involves colleagues at the University of Western Australia (UWA), Perth, and Macquarie University, Sydney. It is funded by BHP’s Resource Centre of Excellence and Metals Exploration and will support three post-doctoral research fellows located in the UK and Australia.
Dr Holwell said:
“We are delighted to have agreed this partnership with BHP. It is particularly exciting to have the opportunity to apply some of our recent and ongoing research on nickel-copper-platinum group metal deposits directly to exploration targeting. We have a truly international and diverse team with complementary expertise and I am very excited to get started!”
Read the article online at: https://www.globalminingreview.com/mining/25012022/university-of-leicester-partners-with-bhp-to-discover-nickel-and-copper-deposits/
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