Mechanisms for concentrating critical metals in granite complexes: insight from the Mourne Mountains, Northern Ireland

Poster37th Annual Winter Meeting of the Geological Society’s Mineral Deposits Studies Group, University of Oxford, UK, 6–7 January 2014The critical metals are the raw materials required for emerging technologies. Their production is concentrated in a small number of countries, resulting in a high risk of supply disruption (European Commission, 2010). The overall objective of this project was to utilise and enhance the Tellus data set for the Mourne Mountains so that the potential for polymetallic critical metal-bearing mineralisation could be investigated [...