Critical Minerals Exploration Center

Assesses the potential of critical minerals for the energy transition — lithium, rare earths, cobalt, nickel, and graphite — through geochemical/geophysical data analysis and exploration simulation, modeling geometallurgical processes to optimize recovery.

⚙️ GeoVerse System Administration Division 🖥️ AI & Computing Sciences Division 🔬 Basic Sciences Division ⚡ Intelligent Geophysical Exploration Division 🛢️ Resource & Energy Engineering Division 🌍 Applied Geoscience Solutions Division 💼 Economics, Policy & Strategy Division 🎓 Education & Training Development Division 🚀 Innovation & International Collaboration Division

Oil & Gas Exploration Project Center Critical Minerals Exploration Center Carbon Capture & Storage Project Center Applied Geothermal Energy Project Center Nuclear Waste Disposal Project Center Offshore Wind Farm Project Center Environmental Geoscience Center Geohazards & Monitoring Project Center Land Site Survey & Assessment Center Special Applications Center

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James Dwight Dana

Center Head

💡 Systematic mineralogy

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1888–1961

Erich Zimmermann

Researcher

💡 Founder of functional resource-economics theory ("World Resources and Industries", 1933)

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1847–1931

Frank Wigglesworth Clarke

Researcher

💡 Founder of geochemistry; first systematic tabulation of the elemental abundance of Earth's crust ("The Data of Geochemistry")

🌍 Applied Geoscience Solutions DivisionCritical Minerals Exploration Center

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1907–2009

Victor Vacquier

Researcher

💡 Inventor of the fluxgate magnetometer and pioneer of airborne magnetic exploration methods

🌍 Applied Geoscience Solutions DivisionCritical Minerals Exploration Center

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1901–1971

J. D. Bernal

Researcher

💡 Determined the crystal structure of graphite using X-ray diffraction (1924)

🌍 Applied Geoscience Solutions DivisionCritical Minerals Exploration Center

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1930–2000

Georges Matheron

Researcher

💡 Founder of geostatistics and the theory of kriging

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1860–1939

Waldemar Lindgren

Researcher

💡 Founder of American economic geology's genetic/depth-temperature classification of hydrothermal ore deposits ("Mineral Deposits", 1913)

🌍 Applied Geoscience Solutions DivisionCritical Minerals Exploration Center

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1922–1995

Clair Cameron Patterson

Researcher

💡 Determined the age of the Earth using lead-isotope geochronology (1956)

🌍 Applied Geoscience Solutions DivisionCritical Minerals Exploration Center

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1839–1904

Jules Garnier

Researcher

💡 Discovered nickel laterite (garnierite) ore in New Caledonia (1864); the mineral garnierite is named after him

🌍 Applied Geoscience Solutions DivisionCritical Minerals Exploration Center

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1925–1987

Hans P. Eugster

Researcher

💡 Founder of quantitative saline-lake brine evolution theory (Eugster-Hardie model)

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1887–1962

Hans Schneiderhöhn

Researcher

💡 Founder of modern genetic ore deposit classification ("Die Erzlagerstätten der Erde")

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1900–1974

Antoine Marc Gaudin

Researcher

💡 Founder of the scientific principles of froth flotation mineral processing ("Flotation", 1932)

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1915–1983

Richard H. Jahns

Researcher

💡 Co-developer of the Jahns-Burnham experimental model of pegmatite genesis (1969)

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1869–1956

Daniel C. Jackling

Researcher

💡 Pioneer of open-pit mass mining of low-grade porphyry copper ore (Bingham Canyon, 1906)

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1851–1940

Waldemar Christofer Brøgger

Researcher

💡 First scientific description of carbonatite igneous rocks (Fen Complex, 1921)

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1868–1935

Frederick Leslie Ransome

Researcher

💡 Pioneer of ore-deposit genetic mapping and replacement/exhalative ore-genesis theory in early American economic geology

🌍 Applied Geoscience Solutions DivisionCritical Minerals Exploration Center