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Mr. Brian Kawenski Cook

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Canada SGS Canada / Queen's University

Biography

Brian graduated with a Bachelor's of Materials Engineering from McGill University in 2016 where his research focused on light metal alloy metallurgy for the automotive and aerospace industry. In 2017, he transitioned to metallurgy in the mineral processing context, working for CiDRA mineral processing on the development of their P29 Technology. When the COVID-19 virus hit Brian accepted an opportunity to return to school for a PhD under Dr. Charlotte Gibson at Queen's University, from which he graduated in January 2025. His researched focused on spodumene flotation and was conducted with close collaboration and support from SGS Lakefield, where he has been employed as a metallurgist since 2021 working on several developing lithium projects. Brian also continues to research lithium mineral processing at Queen's University as a post-doctoral fellow in Dr. Gibson's Critical Minerals Processing Group.

Publications by Year
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Production of Spodumene Concentrate from the North Carolina Piedmont Lithium Project
Brian Kawenski Cook SGS Canada / Queen's University
Zach Grimac Piedmont Lithium
Massoud Aghamirian SGS Canada
Hao Li SGS
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Symposia Video Paper
Sustainability - Water Resource Considerations
61st Annual Conference of Metallurgists
The effect of conditioning pH on spodumene flotation with fatty acids
Brian Kawenski Cook SGS Canada / Queen's University
Massoud Aghamirian SGS Canada
Charlotte Gibson Queen's University
Mineral Sciences: The Laplante-Laskowski Symposium on Mineral Processing Fundamentals Symposia
Laplante-Laskowski Mineral Processing Fundamentals 1
62nd Annual Conference of Metallurgists
A Review of Spodumene Flotation Using Fatty Acid Collectors
Brian Kawenski Cook SGS Canada / Queen's University
Espoir M. Murhula Queen's University
Poster
CIM-CMP Student Poster Competition & Cocktail
CIM 2022 Convention Vancouver