2025 EIG 1 Day Meeting
* 25th November 2025 - Stratford Manor Hotel, Warwickshire *
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The latest in EIG Conferences’ One-Day Technical Seminar series will provide valuable insight, CPD, and networking for geologists working in the UK Extractives Industries. Based on themes around Planning and Developing Construction Mineral Resources in a context where identifying viable deposits and obtaining permission is becoming ever more costly and time consuming, the programme will include presentations from experts across industry and consultancy covering the circular economy, interaction with built development, evolution of construction materials and supply, legislation, and management and mitigation of environmental impacts.
The presentations and discussions will provide geologists and associated specialists, from early-career to experienced, with greater awareness of the factors involved in appraising and developing sites. Whether this is to enable a competent reserve and resource assessment to be produced or help ensure the success of a project, a geologist cannot simply operate without such an awareness.
The sessions for the 2025 One Day Technical Event will focus on:
The Future of High Specification Mineral Supply
An update on the Polished Stone Value (PSV) situation in England and Wales, including feedback from the latest BGS survey. The session will also explore PSV use in asphalt and how the circular economy may influence future demand.How is PSV stone utilised (Mike Wharton, MPA)
PSV supply & demand (Alan Thompson, Cuesta)
Cement: future trends in source materials (speaker tbc)
Use of Imported Materials in Quarry Restoration
With an impending change to the Landfill Tax, this session will discuss the use of inert fill material in quarry restoration, implications of the tax changes, and how materials can be integrated into quarry design (e.g., attenuation layers).
Use of inert materials in quarry restoration (Chris Berryman, SLR)
The Future of Sand & Gravel Aggregates
As land-won sand and gravel becomes harder and less financially viable to develop, this session will examine supply challenges—from desktop viability assessments of greenfield sites to shifting market demands and circularity opportunities.An industry perspective by Craig Arditto
Mineral Supply Issues: key topics that could constrain reserves and replenishment
A review of mineral supply and built development in a constrained country.
Panel discussion lead by Nick Horsley (MPA), Chris Heffernan & Jessica Morgan-Smith (both MPG)
The EIG one-day experience is like a top-up dose in the long 2 year gap between the main EIG conferences, for a flavour here is a summary of the last one in 2023: Quarry Design for the Future, NOW!
The event will be preceded by the QNJAC meeting the evening before (24th November 2025), open to attendees of the EIG One-Day Technical Seminar.
NB. The QNJAC (Quarries National Joint Advisory Committee) meeting will preceed the EIG seminar. For further information, queries should be sent direct to QNJAC.