Dr. Jack Zhang is Senior Researcher, Mineral Processing and Hydrometallurgy, at the Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC). His areas of focus include applied R&D and custom testing for uranium, potash, rare earth, diamond, gold, base metals, and mine water treatment. Professor Dequian Li is a the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences and has been engaged in the study of separation chemistry and clean hydrometallurgical engineering of rare earths for the over 50 years. Dr. Baodong Zhaois the VP of Metallurgy at the Great Western Mineral Group Ltd. He has more than 20 years of experience in metallurgical engineering and project technical management within both R&D and operations environments. Dr.

Bryan Schreiner is the Chief Geoscientist at the Mining and Minerals Division of the Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC).