Life with ore deposits on Earth. Volume 1 / Жизнь и месторождения полезных ископаемых на Земле. Том 1

Life with Ore Deposits on Earth, our Biennial tagline, directly addresses many of the underpinning geoscience issues related to this new future. It is both exciting and daunting – but it must start with leading-edge research on understanding our Earth’s natural resources, and how we can responsibly explore for, and extract them to securely deliver the future we all want to see for our children.We are therefore delighted to present to you, in the 4 volumes of the 15th Edition of the renowned “SGA Abstracts”, 492 conference papers totalling almost 2000 pages. Many papers directly address metals related to the electrification of vehicles, and the transformation of energy technologies to our greener future – emerging from initiatives like the UK’s ambitious NERC SoS Minerals Programme. Others address issues of sustainability and economics related to the mining/extraction and exploration industries. There are also, of course, many other papers relating to metals and processes which are delivering new ideas as to the very nature of our planet, including how life itself may have emerged from chemosynthetic hydrothermal processes in the most ancient of oceans. <...>