The symposium will equally tackle the sustainable management and sustainable extraction and processing. It will cover Rare Earth Elements, Lithium and Platinum Group Metals as well as Minor Metals such as antimony, bismuth, barium, beryllium, boron, calcium, chromium, gallium, germanium, hafnium, indium, manganese, molybdenum, platinum group metals, rare earth metals, rhenium, scandium, selenium, sodium, strontium, tantalum, tellurium, tungsten, etc. The availability of these metals tremendously affects numerous industries such as electronics, aerospace, military, automotive, clean tech and renewable energy technologies, which rely heavily on them and often have no other options to substitute them.

• Managing Supply Chain Risks for Critical & Strategic Metals
• Mitigation practices and innovative strategies
• Costs of extraction, processing options, route to market
• End-user Procuring and maintaining the supply in operations
• Extraction techniques (pyrometallurgy, hydrometallurgy, electrometallurgy)
• Recycling techniques (electronic scraps, EAF dusts, less common waste streams, etc)
• Processing techniques (microwave heating, solar-thermal reaction synthesis, cold crucible synthesis).
• Equipment Design and commissioning
• Laboratory and pilot plant studies