Publications

Understanding regional contexts

Toward responsible mining: Linking ESG strategies with spatial analysis in Zambia’s copper mining industry

Date: 2026
Publication: The Extractive Industries and Society
Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2026.101908

Understanding regional contexts | Environmental impact

The first seismo-volcanological observatory on Montserrat

Date: 2026
Publication: Volcanica
Link: https://doi.org/10.30909/vol/wmvv2233

Critical metals

Potential strategic ore deposits on Mars: Implications for in situ resource utilization

Date: 2025
Publication: Earth-Science Reviews
Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2025.105290

Critical metals | Environmental impact | Circular Economy | Building social license

The UK must secure supplies of 34 critical minerals, says new report – here’s how

Authors:
Kendall, J.-M. | McElroy, C. | Blundy, J.

Date: 2025
Publication: The Conversation
Link: https://theconversation.com/the-uk-must-secure-supplies-of-34-critical-minerals-says-new-report-heres-how-269022

understanding regional contexts

Science in a crisis: Assembling volcanic knowledge in twentieth century Montserrat

Authors:
Mahony, M. | Barclay, J. | Pascal, K. | Pyle, D.M. | Scarlett, J.

Date: 2025
Publication: Journal of Historical Geography
Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.002

Policy and regulation

Rethinking Value-Added Taxes for Developing Economies

Authors:
Arezki, R. | van der Ploeg, F. | Rota-Graziosi, G. | Le-Van, D.

Date: 2025
Publication: Project Syndicate
Link: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/how-vat-has-failed-developing-economies-by-rabah-arezki-et-al-2025-10

Critical metals

Volatility of mercury and related volatile metals at magmatic temperatures

Authors:
Boulliung, J. | Wood, B.J. | Mather, T.A.

Date: 2025
Publication: Chemical Geology
Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chemgeo.2025.123018

Critical metals

The new curse of critical minerals

Authors:
Arezki, R. | van der Ploeg, F.

Date: 2025
Publication: VoxEU (CEPR)
Link: https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/new-curse-critical-minerals

Critical metals

Escaping the critical minerals curse

Authors:
Arezki, R. | van der Ploeg, F.

Date: 2025
Publication: CEPR Policy Insight No. 147
Link: https://cepr.org/publications/policy-insight-147-escaping-critical-minerals-curse

Critical metals | Critical gases | Understanding regional contexts

Anatomy of the magmatic–hydrothermal system beneath Uturuncu volcano, Bolivia, by joint seismological and petrophysical analysis

Date: 2025
Publication: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
Link: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2420996122

Policy and regulation | Understanding regional contexts | Building social license

The hidden samaritan contest

Authors:
Arezki, R. | Camara, Y. | van der Ploeg, F. | Rota-Graziosi, G.

Date: 2025
Publication: Research Briefs in Economic Policy (Cato Institute)
Link: https://www.cato.org/research-briefs-economic-policy/hidden-samaritan-contest

Circular Economy | Environmental impact | Understanding regional contexts

Evaluating the performance of distributed acoustic sensing for crosswell seismic imaging of abandoned mine geothermal systems

Date: 2025
Publication: Geophysics
Link: https://doi.org/10.1190/geo2024-0596.1

Critical metals | Environmental impact

Transcrustal, volatile-charged silicic melts revealed by zircon-hosted melt inclusions

Authors:
Butters, D. | Blundy, J. | Tattitch, B. | Hawkesworth, C.

Date: 2025
Publication: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2025.119252

Critical metals | Environmental impact | Circular Economy

Experimental assessment of sustainable lithium extraction from geothermal reservoirs

Authors:
Sajkowski, L. | Turnbull, R. | Blundy, J. | Rogers, K.

Date: 2025
Publication: Geothermics
Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geothermics.2025.103448

Critical gases | Circular Economy | Environmental impact

Catalytic ultrasound-driven synthesis of syngas from CO₂ saturated water

Date: 2025
Publication: Energy & Environmental Science
Link: https://doi.org/10.1039/D5EE01202C

Environmental impact | Understanding regional contexts

Templated synthesis of multi-hierarchical layered double hydroxide microspheres

Date: 2025
Publication: Journal of Materials Chemistry A
Link: https://doi.org/10.1039/D5TA01511A

Critical gases | Environmental impact

Innovative Design of PEI-Modified AMO-Layered Double Hydroxide for Efficient and Stable Direct Air Capture of CO₂

Date: 2025
Publication: Advanced Science
Link: https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202507756

Critical gases | Environmental impact

Design of Ultra-Stable Solid Amine Adsorbents and Mechanisms of Hydroxyl Group-Dependent Deactivation for Reversible CO2 Capture from Flue Gas

Date: 2025
Publication: Nano-Micro Letters
Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-025-01664-w

Environmental impact | Understanding regional contexts

Trace Element Emissions Vary With Lava Flow Age and Thermal Evolution During the Fagradalsfjall 2021–2023 Eruptions, Iceland

Date: 2024
Publication: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems
Link: https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GC011822

Critical gases | Environmental impact | Understanding regional contexts

Seismic node arrays for enhanced understanding and monitoring of geothermal systems

Date: 2024
Publication: The Seismic Record
Link: https://doi.org/10.1785/0320240019

Policy and regulation | Environmental impact

A Unified Earthquake Catalogue for the North Sea to Derisk European CCS Operations

Date: 2024
Publication: First Break
Link: https://doi.org/10.3997/1365-2397.fb2024036

critical metals

A zircon case for super-wet arc magmas

Date: 2024
Publication: Nature Communications
Link: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-52786-5

Environmental impact | Policy and regulation | Building social license

Ensuring legitimate project-level claims about net biodiversity outcomes

Authors: Sonter, L.J. | Maron, M. | Metaxas, A. | Bull, J.W.

Date: 2024
Publication: Trends in Ecology & Evolution
Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2024.05.004

Environmental impact | Policy and regulation | Building social license

Fair division for avoidance of biodiversity impacts

Date: 2024
Publication: Trends in Ecology & Evolution
Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2024.09.002

Critical gases | Circular Economy | Environmental impact

Hollow-SiO₂@CuxZnyMgzAl-LDHs as catalyst precursors for CO₂ hydrogenation to methanol

Date: 2024
Publication: Chemical Science
Link: https://doi.org/10.1039/D4SC07292H

Critical metals | Environmental impact | Policy and regulation | Building social license

How to fuel an energy transition with ecologically responsible mining

Date: 2023
Publication: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
Link: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2307006120

Microbial Metal Recovery | Circular Economy | Critical metals

Will tomorrow's mineral materials be grown?

Authors:
Cosmidis, J.

Date: 2023
Publication: Microbial Biotechnology
Link: https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.14298

Publications

2026

Toward responsible mining: Linking ESG strategies with spatial analysis in Zambia’s copper mining industry

The first seismo-volcanological observatory on Montserrat

2025

Potential strategic ore deposits on Mars: Implications for in situ resource utilization

The UK must secure supplies of 34 critical minerals, says new report – here’s how

Science in a crisis: Assembling volcanic knowledge in twentieth century Montserrat

Rethinking Value-Added Taxes for Developing Economies

Volatility of mercury and related volatile metals at magmatic temperatures

The new curse of critical minerals

Escaping the critical minerals curse

Anatomy of the magmatic–hydrothermal system beneath Uturuncu volcano, Bolivia, by joint seismological and petrophysical analysis

The hidden samaritan contest

Evaluating the performance of distributed acoustic sensing for crosswell seismic imaging of abandoned mine geothermal systems

Transcrustal, volatile-charged silicic melts revealed by zircon-hosted melt inclusions

Experimental assessment of sustainable lithium extraction from geothermal reservoirs

Catalytic ultrasound-driven synthesis of syngas from CO₂ saturated water

Templated synthesis of multi-hierarchical layered double hydroxide microspheres

Innovative Design of PEI-Modified AMO-Layered Double Hydroxide for Efficient and Stable Direct Air Capture of CO₂

Design of Ultra-Stable Solid Amine Adsorbents and Mechanisms of Hydroxyl Group-Dependent Deactivation for Reversible CO2 Capture from Flue Gas

2024 and Earlier

Trace Element Emissions Vary With Lava Flow Age and Thermal Evolution During the Fagradalsfjall 2021–2023 Eruptions, Iceland

Seismic node arrays for enhanced understanding and monitoring of geothermal systems

A Unified Earthquake Catalogue for the North Sea to Derisk European CCS Operations

A zircon case for super-wet arc magmas

Ensuring legitimate project-level claims about net biodiversity outcomes

Fair division for avoidance of biodiversity impacts

Hollow-SiO₂@CuxZnyMgzAl-LDHs as catalyst precursors for CO₂ hydrogenation to methanol

How to fuel an energy transition with ecologically responsible mining

Will tomorrow's mineral materials be grown?

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