Rooms available for presentation practice, November 26-28:

• 32-155 is available from 5-midnight--MTW
• 32-123 is available from 6-midnight-MTW
• 32-123 is available from 5-6 on Monday and Wednesday, although on Wednesday it likely won't be clear until 5:30

UTF suggestions for a better final presentation are here as a pdf and here as a PowerPoint.

Here is the PDF of Hal Gustin's lecture.

Here are the instructions (Powerpoint slide) for the milli project.

See the library Powerpoint here.

You can access the class wiki here.

Here are some suggested readings for the class.

Phosphorus: A Looming Crisis.

Rare Earth Metals

Rare Earth Elements: The Next Oil

Unsung Elements

Gadgetry without the guilt

Blood on your mobile phone?

Conflict minerals in the Congo

Certified trading chains

China in Africa

Coltan, the Congo, and your cell phone

End of cheap uranium

The global uranium rush, lessons from Namibia

DOE 2010 Critical Materials Strategy

DOE 2011 Critical Materials Strategy

Rare Earth Elements: The Global Supply Chain

Rare Earth Elements in National Defense

The metallurgy of antimony

Resource scarcity - A security threat?

Granitic Pegmatites as Sources of Strategic Metals






Consuming the Congo : war and conflict minerals in the world's deadliest place by Peter H. Eichstaedt Chicago, Ill. : Lawrence Hill Books, c2011.






Here are the Powerpoint slides from class.

Lecture 1 Powerpoint

Lecture 2 Powerpoint