Session 6
11:00
– 13:00 / 22 October 2025
Lagoas hall
Meeting Europe’s Raw Materials Needs from Primary and Secondary Sources
Europe needs to significantly increase its domestic production of non-ferrous metals (NFMs) and energy metals by 2030 to meet its raw materials goals. The EU needs to open at least 10 new mines, 15 new processing facilities and 15 recycling facilities for key SRMs by 2030 (while no mine has opened in the past 15 years in the EU), and to finance 15 CRM-related projects in third countries through the Global Gateway.
Moderator
Speakers:
11:00 - The innovation imperative: Bridging the supply-demand gap for critical raw materials by 2030
Alena Kudzko
Executive Director
GLOBSEC US Foundation
11:10 - From Extraction to Circularity: Reimagining Europe’s Critical Raw Materials Future
Wen-Yu Weng
Executive Lead (Global), Critical Raw Materials
Ellen MacArthur Foundation
11:20 - Recycling Copper: Global Trends and the Future of a Circular Industry
Fernando Acosta
Director Economics and ENvironment
International Copper Study Group
11:30 - Magnesium Metal: Strategic Relevance and Outlook for Europe
Martin Wolfgang Tauber
European Representative
International Magnesium Association
11:40 - Iberian Belt West exploration project, the most recent success exploration story in southern Europe.
Joaquín Jesús Merino Márquez
President & Director
Emerita Resources Corp.
11:55 - Building Europe's Backbone: Sustainable Magnesia & Circular Refractories
Constantin Beelitz
President - Europe & CIS
RHI Magnesita
12:10 - Geology, Geometallurgy and Metallurgy of the Arthrath Ni-Cu-Co Deposit, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Andrew Bamber
Managing Director
Bara Consulting
12:25 - BLOOM project - Liberation analysis for optimizing extraction and processing of CRMs
Marko Komac
Board Member
INTRAW Observatory
12:35 - Unlocking Value in Underground Mining: The More We Know, The More Complex It Gets
Manuel Silva Balocchi
Mining Consultant
SRK Consulting (UK)