| Recovery, Sustainability | Application of CCUS in Lithium Extraction from Subsurface Brines | University of Aberdeen | Dr Roozbeh Rafati | |
| Discovery, Strategy | Developing a mineral systems framework for North East Scotland using new geological and geophysical data | University of Aberdeen | Dr. Amy Gilligan | Aberdeen Minerals |
| Discovery, Recovery | Mineral prospect imaging and mining environment monitoring using innovative seismological deployments and data processing | University of Aberdeen | Dr. Dave Cornwell | SmartSolo |
Recovery, Sustainability
| Local monitoring of low-enthalpy geothermal resources in flooded mines using hydrogeophysical and citizen science methods to foster energy citizenship | University of Aberdeen | Dr. Jean-Christophe Comte | |
| Discovery, Strategy | The importance of faults, fractures and fluid flow for mineralisation | University of Aberdeen | Prof. Clare Bond | |
| Discovery, Recovery | Time dependent imaging of fracturing and faulting from mine induced seismicity | Cardiff University | Dr. Glenn Jones | ESG Solutions |
Discovery, Sustainability
| MineSentinel: AI-Powered Monitoring and Forecasting for Safer and Sustainable Critical Mineral Mining | Cardiff University | Dr. Peidong Shi | ESG Solutions |
| Discovery | Petrology of the first drill core profile intersecting the entire Bushveld Complex, South Africa | Cardiff University | Prof. Wolfgang Maier | Ivanhoe |
| Recovery, Sustainability | Life Cycle Assessment of Electronics supply chains | University of Exeter | Prof. Frances Wall | Minviro |
| Discovery | Volatiles in zircon-hosted inclusions as indicators of porphyry copper fertility | Imperial College | Dr. Chetan Nathwani | |
| Discovery | Reading the textures of zircon crystals from porphyry copper deposits using machine learning | Imperial College | Dr. Chetan Nathwani | |
| Recovery, Strategy | Mineralogy Informed Flowsheet Modelling | Imperial College | Prof. Stephen Neethling | |
| Discovery | Integrated Geochemical, Geophysical, and Geodynamic Source-to-Sink Analysis of Critical Metal Mineralisation | Imperial College | Dr. Fred Richards | |
| Discovery | Integration of geophysical and remote sensing data with AI for targeting mineral exploration in Northern Ireland | University of Leeds | Dr. Chris Green | |
| Discovery | Importance of pegmatite and mineral vein segmentation for ore deposits | University of Leeds | Dr. Craig Magee | |
| Discovery, Sustainability | Creative Destruction: sub-critical stress corrosion cracking and the formation of critical mineral deposits | University of Leeds | Prof Dave Healy | |
| Sustainability | Satellite measurements of deformation and the environmental impacts of Lithium mining in northern Chile | University of Leeds | Prof. John Elliott | Viridien |
| Discovery, Recovery | Optimising lithium-bearing reactive fluid flow in rough fractures using geomechanical measurements and modelling | University of Leeds | Prof. Paul Glover | |
| Discovery, Recovery | Making the most of galena: the effect of deformation on trace element distribution in galena | University of Leeds | Prof. Sandra Piazolo | |
| Sustainability | Tracking the Impact of Mining Activity in the Amazon Rainforest Using Satellite Data | University of Leeds | Dr. Susanna Ebmeier | |
| Discovery | Characterisation of antimony-gold mineralisation in Ireland and Newfoundland | University of Leeds | Dr. Taija Torvela | Conroy Gold and Natural Resources |
| Recovery, Sustainability | Decoding Lithium Transformation Mechanisms in Biological Systems for Green Extraction and Waste Remediation | University of Leeds | Dr. Gbotemi Adediran | |
| Discovery | Metal fluxes in volcanic arcs: An integrated minerals approach | University of Leicester | Dr. Andrew Miles | |
| Discovery | Lithium pegmatites: a mineral chemistry approach to understanding their formation | University of Leicester | Dr. Andrew Miles | |
| Discovery, Recovery | Investigating mineralisation processes and novel processing techniques for critical metal by-products in the Mbe gold deposit, Central Cameroon | University of Leicester | Prof. Gawen Jenkin | |
| Sustainability | Accelerating landscape recovery from artisanal and small-scale gold mining in Indonesia using Nature-based Solutions | University of Liverpool | Dr. Richard Boothroyd | |
| Discovery, Sustainability | Tracing the origin of the Brandberg West tungsten-tin deposit, Namibia | University of St Andrews | Dr. Nicholas Gardiner | Andrada Mining |
| Discovery, Sustainability | Tracing the genesis of rare metal (Li-Ta-Sn) Archean pegmatites | University of St Andrews | Dr. Nicholas Gardiner | |
| Discovery, Strategy | Testing the Convection Hypothesis; Assessing the Structural Controls on Mineralisation in the Younger Giant Dykes, Southeast Greenland | University of St Andrews | Dr. William McCarthy | Viking Cruises |
| Sustainability | Mining for Sustainable and Inclusive Development (MISID) | University College London | Dr. Teresa Domenech Aparisi | |
