BGS News April 2023

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West Rigg Mine - Andrew Curtis / West Rigg Opencut / CC BY-SA 2.0

New report assesses geological potential for critical raw materials in the UK

The national-scale assessment represents one of the first steps in the UK Government’s critical minerals strategy, which aims to make the UK more resilient to disruption in critical mineral supply chains by accelerating the growth of domestic capability.

The new report, produced for the Critical Minerals Intelligence Centre, reveals that areas from the Highlands to south-west England have the right geology to be prospective for several critical raw materials such as lithium and graphite.
BGS World Minerals Production 2017 to 2021

World Mineral Production
2017 to 2021 released

BGS and its predecessor organisations have compiled production and trade statistics on a wide range of mineral commodities since 1913. The latest edition of World Mineral Production is now available to download for free and contains mineral production statistics for more than 70 commodities.
BGS Recruitment Call 2023

BGS recruitment call 2023

Are you a geology graduate, postgraduate or professional looking for the next step in your career?

BGS is growing and we are currently recruiting geologists and geoscientists to support the delivery of our new strategy.

In other news

public water use influence on the amount of phosphorus in the environment

How does public water use influence the amount of phosphorus in the environment?

Alongside colleagues from Union College in New York and Lancaster University, BGS scientists are researching the biogeochemical cycling of nutrients in aquatic environments in the USA.
BGS borehole record

BGS releases upgrade to borehole delivery through GeoIndex

A new API (application programming interface) has been developed to improve access to scanned borehole data, as well as the graphic log created for AGS files.

On the blog

A beach on Boracay in the Philippines

Island groundwater management in the Philippines: part one — Boracay

Andy Barkwith and Andy McKenzie travelled to the Philippines to undertake collaborative research and outreach with Filipino partners for a national hydrological modelling project. 
Four hundred year old bear paw bone

Exploring animal diets in Shakespeare’s London

The ‘Box office bears’ project aims to understand more about the bears that were once a common sight in England. Prof Hannah O’Regan and Dr Lizzie Wright from the University of Nottingham explain what the project entails.