Critical Minerals and Rare Earth Mining Issues - Interview with Professor Susan Park

Written By Chris

Professor Susan Park sits down with PhD student Christopher Hall to discuss her work on critical mineral mining around the globe.

Questions:

  • What are critical minerals? 00:03

  • What are some of the negative impacts of critical mineral mining? 01:12

  • What kind of research do you do? 02:10

  • What does your research involve? 03:25

  • How does Australia fit in the global critical mineral situation? 04:05

  • What's the difference between Australian lithium mining and Chile lithium mining? 05:43

  • What is the lithium triangle? 06:22

  • Which communities are most impacted by critical mineral mining? 07:27

  • First nations peoples and critical mineral mining 09:35

  • What's Canada doing better than Australia? 10:21

  • If you want to get into critical mining research, what should you study? 11:30

Chris
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