ERES 2014 — The 1st conference on European Rare Earth Resources

The full programme of the conference is given below, and where papers were submitted for the conference proceedings volume, these are linked from the relevant place in the programme.

05/09 Hall A1
Session I-A1: Rare Earth Resources (Plenary)
Chair: Ioannis PASPALIARIS, Vladimiros G. PAPANGELAKIS
08:30 ERES2014 Opening Addresses
-Gerasimos DAMOULAKIS, Mayor of Milos
-German ESTEBAN-MUNIZ, European Commission, DG Research & Innovation
- Alexis VAN MAERCKE, European Commission, DG Enterprise & Industry
05/09 Hall A1
Session I-A1: Rare Earth Resources (Plenary)
Chair: Ioannis PASPALIARIS, Vladimiros G. PAPANGELAKIS
09:00 The Rare Earth Crisis and the Critical Materials Institute's (CMI) Answer
Proceedings paper
Karl A. GSCHNEIDNER, Jr
09:20 The role of earth science for the supply of rare earth elements
Proceedings paper
Yasushi WATANABE
09:40 Extraction And Recovery Of Rare Earth Metals: Challenges In Processing
Brajendra MISHRA
10:00 Chinese Rare Earth Ore Deposits And Beneficiation Techniques
Proceedings paper
Xiaosheng YANG
10:20 The Commercial Development of New Sources of Rare Earths in Europe and Beyond
Gareth P. HATCH
10:40 The Balance Problem and its Relevance to Recycling of Rare Earths
Proceedings paper
Koen BINNEMANS
11:00 Questions to the speakers
11:20 Coffee Break
05/09 Hall A1
Session II-A1: European Rare Earth Resources (Plenary)
Chair: Vadim KESSLER, Per KALVIG
11:40 The European Mining Industry of the Future
Corina HEBESTREIT
12:00 Unlocking the potential of rare earth resources in Europe
Proceedings paper
Nikolaos ARVANITIDIS
12:20 The EURARE project
Ioannis PASPALIARIS
12:40 REE’s – Sweden’s New Frontier
Henning HOLMSTRÖM
13:00 Developing a World Class Rare Earth Project
Damien KREBS
13:20 TANBREEZ Mining for Greener Technologies
Greg BARNES
13:40 Questions to the speakers
13:40 Lunch Break
05/09 Hall A1
Session III-A1: European REE Supply and Demand
Chair: Martiya SADEGHI, Nicolo OLIVIERI
Hall A2
Session III-A2: REE Processing- Electrodeposition
Chair: Antonis KARANTONIS, Dimitrios PANIAS
15:00 The European REE market and its place in the global industry
David MERRIMAN
Dissolution Behaviour of Rare Earth Oxides (REOs) in Molten Fluorides
Proceedings paper
Xiaoling GUO
15:15 Primary and secondary sources of rare earths in the EU27: results of the ASTER project
Proceedings paper
Dominique GUYONNET
Electrodeposition of rare earth metals in ionic liquids
Proceedings paper
Evangellos BOURBOS
15:30 The Role of Rare Earths Supply Risk in Low Carbon Technologies Innovation
Eva BARTEKOVÁ
Recovery of Neodymium from NdFeB magnet scrap by selective electrolytic dissolution
Proceedings paper
Venkatesan PRAKASH
15:45 Exploring Rare Earths supply constraints for the emerging clean energy technologies and the role of recycling
Komal HABIB
Molten Salt Electrolysis for Recycling of Rare Earth Metals from Electronic Waste
Johannes ÖHL
16:00 Material Flow Analysis for identifying Neodymium flows and stocks and recycling potentials in the EU-27
Mariane PLANCHON
Rare earth extraction from NdFeB magnet and rare earth oxides using molten salt process
Aida ABBASALIZADEH
16:15 Global Pricing Dynamics of the Rare Earths Industry
Allan BRANCH
16:40 Coffee Break
05/09 Hall A1
Session IV-A1: European Framework
Chair: Bertil GRUNDFELT, Maria TAXIARCHOU
16:50 Revision of the list of Critical Raw Materials for the EU
Alexis VAN MAERCKE
17:05 European Policies on Critical Raw Materials, including Rare Earths
Proceedings paper
Vasili NICOLETOPOULOS
17:25 Legislation and best practice in the emerging European rare earth element industry
Proceedings paper
Miranda KEITH-ROACH
17:40 A comparative analysis of national raw materials policy approaches with a special focus on REE in Europe
Proceedings paper
Andreas ENDL
17:55 Assessments of boundary conditions and requirements for Rare Earth Underground Mining due to presence of NORMs
Proceedings paper
George BARAKOS
18:10 A Framework for the Sustainable Development of Rare Earth Elements
Proceedings paper
Sotiris N. KAMENOPOULOS
06/09 Hall A1
Session V-A2: REE Processing- Mineral Beneficiation/Leaching
Chair: Kathryn GOODENOUGH, Henning HOLMSTRÖM
Hall A2
Session III-A2: REE Processing- Electrodeposition
Chair: Xiaosheng YANG, Damien KREBS
09:00 EURARE Integrated Knowledge Management System (IKMS) on European REEs data
Proceedings paper
Guillaume BERTRAND
Recovery Of Rare Earth Elements From Clay Minerals
Proceedings paper
Vladimiros G. PAPANGELAKIS
09:20 REE Deposits And Occurrences In Greenland
Proceedings paper
Kristine THRANE
Advancing Key Technologies For REE Mineral Processing
Michael HASCHKE
09:35 The potential of rare earth elements (REE) in Greece
Proceedings paper
Dimitrios ELIOPOULOS
Hydrometallurgical Treatment of a U and REE Bearing Concentrate
Damien KREBS
09:50 The Motzfeldt Centre Of The Igaliko Nepheline Syenite Complex, South Greenland - A Major Resource Of REE Elements
Proceedings paper
Tapani TUKIAINEN
Unlocking Rare Earth Elements From European Apatite-Iron Ores
Proceedings paper
Bertil I. PÅLSSON
10:05 Alteration Of Eudialyte And Its Implications On The REE, Zr, And Nb Resources Of The Layered Kakortokite Sequence In The Ilímaussaq Complex, South West Greenland
Proceedings paper
Anouk BORST
Application of acidic methods for red mud processing to produce rare earth elements and scandium
Olga PETRAKOVA
10:20 REE- Minerals In Carbonatite, Alkaline And Hydrothermal Rocks, Northern And Central Finland
Proceedings paper
Thair AL-ANI
Process control of an innovative method for the recovery and separation of rare earths from red mud by different analytical techniques
Maria OCHSENKÜHN-PETROPOULOU
10:35 Rare-Earth Minerals In Carbonatites Of The Kola Alkaline Province (Northern Fennoscandia
Proceedings paper
Anatoly N. ZAITSEV
High pressure acid leaching of a nickel laterite ore to extract scandium.
Şerif KAYA
10:50 Rare earth elements and strategic metals mineralogy and geochemistry of coastal black sands in islands from Hellenic Volcanic Arc: The case of Nisyros
Ioannis TZIFAS
Leaching Of Rare Earths From Bauxite Residues Using Imidazolium Based Ionic Liquids
Proceedings paper
Panagiotis DAVRIS
11:05 The size and structure of the Tanbreez REE-deposit in the IlÍmaussaq intrusion, South Greenland
Proceedings paper
Hans K. SCHØNWANDT
11:20 Coffee Break
06/09 Hall A1
Session VI-A1: REE Ore Formation
Chair: Daniel CASSARD, George ECONOMOU
Hall A2
Session VI-A2: REE Processing – REE separation
Chair: Dimitios PANIAS, Emma SCHOFIELD
11:40 Rare Earth Elements in Karst-Bauxites: a novel untapped European resource
Éimear DEADY
Proceedings paper
Membrane filtration for strategic metals extraction and recycling
Stéphane PELLET-ROSTAING
11:55 Rare Earth Elements in Europe and Greenland: A novel synthesis of occurrences
Nicolas CHARLES
Complexes with protonated iminodiacetic acid as molecular models for surface binding of REE on nanoadsorbents
Vadim G. KESSLER
12:10 The importance of tectonic setting in assessing European rare earth potential
Proceedings paper
Kathryn M. GOODENOUGH
Extraction and Separation of Rare Earths with Functionalized Chitosan Biopolymers

Joris ROOSEN
12:25 The Palaeoproterozoic skarn-hosted REE mineralisations of Bastnäs type: overview and mineralogical – geological character
Proceedings paper
Erik JONSSON
Separation of rare-earths with functionalized magnetic nanoparticles
David DUPONT
12:40 Near future REE resources for Europe- The new frontier of Marine exploration, mining and processing
Proceedings paper
Konstantinos PAPAVASILEIOU
Functionalised MIL-101(Cr) As Novel Europium Adsorbent
Proceedings paper
Jeroen DE DECKER
12:55 Magnetic metal oxide based adsorbent for extraction and separation of REE.
Gulaim SEISENBAEVA
13:10 Separation of europium/gadolinium mixtures by selective photochemical reduction
Bart VAN DEN BOGAERT
13:25 Organic-ligand grafted magnetic nanoadsorbents for extraction and separation of REE.
Elizabeth POLIDO
13:40 Applying Ionic liquids to rare earth separations
Kristian LARSSON
11:20 Lunch Break
06/09 Hall A1
Session VII-A1 : REE Recycling Technologies
Chair: Efthymios BALOMENOS, Srecko STOPIC
15:00 Recovery of rare earth metals from end-of-life permanent magnet scrap – an overview
Yongxiang YANG
15:15 Recycling of sintered Nd-Fe-B magnets by a hydrogen based route
Konrad GÜTH
15:30 Future challenges in hydrometallurgy for critical metal recovery and recycling
Eugen ANDREIADIS
15:45 Leaching of rare earths elements (REE) past and present
Proceedings paper
Sebastiaan PEELMAN
16:00 Extraction of lanthanides from waste abrasive material
Proceedings paper
Alexander POSCHER
16:15 The REEs potential in "urban" ore deposits: an evaluation on contents and prospecting tools from Italian Municipal Solid Waste Incenerators.
Valerio FUNARI
16:30 Design-to-recycle Zn- and Zn-alloy-bonded RE-Fe-B magnets
Luka KELHAR
16:45 MAG-DRIVE – an EC-funded project to reduce the dependence of the European automotive industry on REEs
Paul MCGUINESS