Jurgen Fuijkschot

   

Director Mining and Resources - Project Emili
Imerys

BIO

Jurgen is a Dutch mining engineer with 28 years of experience, gained at operations, consulting and project work in various countries.
His initial 10 years of working life was spent at underground gold and nickel operations in Australia and an open pit gold mine in Guinea. The work ranged from mine design and planning, ventilation, drill and blast and ground support design to mine management.

After that, he was a consultant at SRK for 15 years, undertaking technical and due diligence studies covering base, precious-metal, gemstone, and uranium projects, located throughout Europe, CIS, Africa and South America, in both technical and project management roles. Mining methods covered range from small scale hand-held mining to block caving.

Jurgen has been using several mining software packages for the creation of underground designs, mining schedules and 2D and 3D visualizations, taking into consideration the interrelatedness of the various technical disciplines.

In 2022 he joined the team working on project EMILI, a large-scale underground lithium project located in the centre of France with the aim to implement the latest mining technology and create a “sustainable” mine.

Session 3
21 October 2025 / 14:00 - 15:30 | Lagoas hall

The Mineral Resource at the Beauvoir lithium deposit, France

Imerys is currently mining kaolin at the Beauvoir kaolin quarry (Kaolins de Beauvoir), located in the centre of France, and has been exploring the lithium-bearing Beauvoir granite deposit below the quarry to develop an underground lithium mine (Project EMILI). Metallurgical test work undertaken by Imerys has demonstrated that the main lithium mineral, lepidolite, can be extracted and processed into lithium hydroxide monohydrate (LHM), suitable for electrical vehicle batteries.
Recently, Imerys has presented the updated Mineral Resource for the Beauvoir deposit which formed the basis for the Project EMILI PFS, completed in February 2025. This presentation will cover the exploration programme and subsequent resource modelling.