Areas of Emphasis
In accordance with our mission to build a just and long-lasting mineral supply chain, SuReMin emphasizes four categories.
Low-Cost, Scalable, Rapid Data Collection for Social and Environmental Assessment
- Sensing at the edge
- Social science-driven data collection
- Open-access environmental and human well-being data for communities, policymakers, researchers, and companies
Sustainable Mining Waste Management, Reuse, and Disposal
- Risk assessment for tailings dams
- Chemistry and processes for circular economy technology to reduce waste
Life Cycle Assessment
- Framework and methodology development
- Attributional environmental
- Social Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) complement Environmental LCAs by including indicators such as fair wages and delocalization
- Community-engaged: Develop framework for improving frontline mining community engagement in the LCA process
- Evaluating consequences that can arise from major technology and policy shifts such as increased mining that arise from decarbonization policies
Education
- Gradate student exchanges
- Undergraduate global trek
- Graduate research seminar