The UK Opportunity: CMA (UK) & GSBF 3rd Annual Conference

Our 3rd Annual Conference aimed to showcase what the UK has to offer in the mission to develop alternative critical mineral supply chains, and to bring together international partners to promote collaboration. Like its predecessors, our conference was a day of insightful panels discussions and presentations on the importance of building supply chain resilience, with experts from across industry, finance, law, government, and academia discussing how policy can enable UK industry to achieve its Green Industrial Revolution and Net Zero ambitions. 

The event attracted a diverse and international audience that highlighted the multidisciplinary nature of critical minerals, bringing together innovators, explorers, chemists, policymakers, investors, miners, recyclers, processors, parliamentarians, researchers, lawyers, environmentalists, and many more. In a sector where women represent 12% of the workforce, CMA (UK) are proud that 53% of the event speakers were women, coming from organisations such as the European Electronics Recyclers Association (EERA), Australian Trade and Investment Commission (Austrade), Philipps 66, House of Lords, National Manufacturing Institute Scotland, British Geological Survey, UK Department for Business and Trade, and Innovate UK.

Organisations in attendance included Jaguar Land Rover, the Mining Association of the UK (MAUK), Societe Generale, Mineral Products Assocation (MPA), Society for Motor Manufacturers & Traders (SMMT), and University of Liverpool. We welcomed government officials from Armenia, Australia, France, Chad, Australia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Saudi Arabia, as well as regional government delegations from British Colombia, Cornwall, Saskatchewan, Northeast England, Ontario, Quebec, Queensland, Western Australia, and Yukon.