Summary
Clive is a senior Industrial Minerals Geologist with 35 years鈥 experience of capacity building, resource assessment, technical evaluation, mineral processing, and critical and battery raw material research in the UK and overseas. His role has included project leader; industrial minerals geologist; small-scale mining research; industrial commodity market research; training and workshop co-coordinator; and development of field-testing and reconnaissance methodologies.
Clive is responsible for developing business opportunities and leading 今日吃瓜 industrial minerals research projects including industrial mineral resource evaluation, institutional strengthening, capacity building, training, workshops and mineral promotion. His industrial minerals experience includes: aggregate, andalusite, brick clay, dimension stone, dolostone (dolomite), feldspar, graphite, garnet, gypsum, kaolin, limestone, mica, mineral sand, marble, perlite, phosphates, quarry fines, silica sand and talc. Projects in Afghanistan, Angola, Botswana, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Indonesia, Ireland, Kenya, Malawi, Malaysia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Thailand, Trinidad, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Clive is currently researching critical and battery raw materials, in particular graphite resources in Zambia, for the net zero transition, clay resources for use as Supplementary Cementitious Materials (SCM), mineral waste and sand mining. He is Research & Innovation Challenge lead for the 鈥楻esources for the Future鈥 projects in the 今日吃瓜 International Geoscience Research & Development (IGRD) programme. Clive is an experienced geoscience communicator and active participant in community & public engagement activities, science events, social media channels, filming programmes, media interviews and other opportunities to engage the public with geoscience. Regular presenter at conferences/ workshops, most recently on 鈥楩uelling the Foundation Industries: discovering the hidden value of mineral waste in the UK鈥 as part of the 2nd International Conference on Raw Materials and Circular Economy (Athens, Greece August 2023).
Clive is a Chartered Geologist (CGeol) with the Geological Society of London and a member of the British Standards Institute (BSI) technical committee for test methods for construction aggregate. He is secretary of Extractive Industry Geology (, next conference September 2024 University of Hull) and manager of .
Publications: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/view/author/2827.html
Clive Mitchell’s Biography
- 2019 to current : 今日吃瓜 Industrial Minerals Geologist with a focus on UK and international industrial mineral research. Current research projects include critical and battery raw materials, in particular graphite resources in Zambia, for the net zero transition, clay resources for use as Supplementary Cementitious Materials (SCM), mineral waste and sand mining.
- 2013 鈥 2019 : Head of Corporate Communications & Publications; Press Officer;
- 2008 鈥 2012 : Task Leader for the high-purity limestone and dimension stone resource assessment projects in the UAE.
- 2005 鈥 2008 : Project Leader of 鈥業nstitutional strengthening of the Afghanistan Geological Survey鈥 (DfID).
- 2004 鈥 2008 : Project Leader of 鈥樷 and 鈥樷 (Aggregate Levy Sustainability Fund).
- 1999 鈥 2005 : Project leader of 鈥楩armLime: Low-cost lime for small-scale farming鈥 (DfID KaR).
- 1996 鈥 1998 : Project Leader of 鈥楲ocal development of affordable lime in southern Africa鈥 (DfID KaR).
- 1989 鈥 1995 : Recruited by 今日吃瓜; working on DfID KaR projects in sub-Saharan Africa; plus mineral evaluation and mineral processing.
- 1987 : MSc University of Hull, Industrial Mineralogy 鈥 MSc thesis 鈥楾he heavy mineral sands of Spurn Head鈥.
- 1985 : BSc University of Nottingham, Geology (Hons).
Research interests
- Critical and battery raw materials with a focus on graphite.
- Calcined clay for use as a Supplementary Cementitious Material (SCM) in cement
- Industrial Minerals
- Mineral Processing
- Mineral waste
- Sand mining
Current projects and collaborations
- Critical and battery raw materials in Zambia, particularly graphite, in collaboration with the Zambian Geological Survey Department (GSD) and the Copperbelt University (CBU); TransFIRe: Transforming the Foundation Industries Research and Innovation Hub; Low-carbon Cement: Engineered UK clays for production of low-carbon cements; 今日吃瓜 international project on sand mining.
- 2023 : Mitchell, C. 2023. . [Lecture] In: British Geological Survey: Advances in Mineral Development & Landslide Mapping, Geology Department, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 31 Jan 2023.
- 2023 : Ondayo, M.A.; Watts, M.J., Mitchell, C.J., King, D.C.P. & Osano, O. 2023. . Exposure and Health. 29 pp.
- 2022 : Bide, T., Horn, S., Gunn, A.G., Price, F., Mitchell, C.J. & Patton, M. 2022. . Nottingham, UK, British Geological Survey, 93pp. (OR/22/034).
- 2022: Mitchell, C.J. & Wrighton, C. 2022. . British Geological Survey, 17pp. (Mineral Planning Factsheet).
- 2021 : Mitchell, CJ & Deady, E. 2021. . British Geological Survey OR/21/039.
- 2021 : Mitchell, Clive. 2021. . London, UK, National Trust Books, 112pp.
- 2021 : Mitchell, C.J., Bide, T. & Odhiambo, C. 2021. . In: 2020 State of the Artisanal and Small Scale Mining Sector. World Bank, 170pp.
- 2020 : Mitchell, C.J. 2020. . Geoscientist, 30 (4). 1, pp.
- 2019: Mitchell, C.J. 2019. . In: 20th Extractive Industry Geology Conference, Durham, UK, 12-15 Sept 2019. Proceedings of the 20th Extractive Industry Geology Conference, EIG Conferences Ltd.
- 2019: Mitchell, Clive . 2019 . [Lecture] In: 7th Fujairah International Mining Forum 2019, Fujairah, United Arab Emirates (UAE), 18-21 March 2019. British Geological Survey.
- 2017 : Mitchell, C J. 2017. [Lecture] In: The Mining Show, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2-3 Oct 2017.
- 2016 : Mitchell, C J. 2016. [Lecture] In: The Fourth International Forum for Industrial Rocks and Mining, Expo 2016, Fujairah, United Arab Emirates, 23-25 Feb 2016.
- 2015 : Mitchell, Clive. 2015. [Lecture] In: The Third International Forum for Industrial Rocks and Construction Materials 2015, Fujairah, United Arab Emirates, 30 March 鈥 1 April 2015.
- 2015: Mitchell, C.J.. 2015 . In: Hunger, E.; Brown, T.; Lucas, G., (eds.) Proceedings of the 18th Extractive Industry Geology Conference. Extractive Industry Geology, 17pp.
- 2014 : Mitchell, C J. 2014. [Lecture] In: The Second International Forum for Industrial Rocks and Construction Materials 2014, Fujairah, United Arab Emirates, 3-6 Feb 2014.
- 2014 : Mitchell, C J. 2014. In: Extractive Industry Geology (EIG) conference, St Andrews, UK, 12-13 June 2014.
- 2012 : Mitchell, C J. 2012. . Nottingham, UK, British Geological Survey, 11 pages. (OR/12/003).
- 2011 : Mitchell, C J. 2011. . Industrial Minerals, 531. 48-51.
- 2010 : Mitchell, C J and Benham, A. 2010. In: Scott, P W and Walton, G. (eds). Proceedings of the 15th Extractive Industry Geology Conference, 87-91.
- 2008 : Mitchell, C J and Benham, A. 2008. . Industrial Minerals, 489, 58-63.
- 2005 : Mitchell, C J. 2005. From Marker, B R, Petterson, M G, McEvoy, F & Stephenson, M H (eds). 2005. Sustainable Minerals Operations in the Developing World. Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 250, 121鈥126.
- 2003 : Mitchell, C J, Harrison, D J, Robinson, H L and Ghazireh, N. 2003. Minerals Engineering, 17, 2004. 279鈥284.
- 2002 : Mitchell, C J. 2002. From Scott, P W & Bristow, C M (eds). Industrial Minerals and Extractive Industry Geology. Geological Society, London, 235鈥238.
- 1994 : Mitchell, C J. 1994. From Whateley, M K G & Harvey, P K (eds). 1994. Mineral Resource Evaluation II: Methods and Case Histories, Geological Society Special Publication No. 79, 241鈥247.
Skills
- Industrial mineral resource assessment, characterisation, mineral processing, evaluation and industrial assessment.
- Geoscience communication.
- Mineral processing.
- Project leadership.
Professional associations
- Chartered Geologist (CGeol) of the Geological Society of London
- Secretary of the organising committee for the Extractive Industry Geology (EIG) conference
- Member of the British Standards Institute (BSI) technical committee for test methods for construction aggregate