Minerals

Dr. Joan Carles Melgarejo Draper

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Departament de Mineralogia, Petrologia i Geologia Aplicada, Facultat de Geologia, Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Martí i Franquès s/n, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
Interests: mineralogy; mineral deposits; critical elements
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Dr. Romain Millot

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BRGM – French Geological Survey - Water, Environment, Process Development and Analysis Division, 45060 Orléans, France
Interests: isotope geochemistry; water/rock interactions; lithium isotopes; metal isotopes; mineral resources
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Dr. Mehdi Mirzababaei

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School of Engineering and Technology, Central Queensland University, Melbourne, VIC 3000, Australia
Interests: soil reinforcement; soil stabilisation; pavement design; use of waste materials in pavement; thermal behaviour of stabilised clays; railway geotechnology; remote sensing and geotechnical field instrumentation; design and develoment of closed-loop research equipment
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Dr. Jiří Mizera

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1. Nuclear Physics Institute. Czech Academy of Sciences, 25068 Husinec-Řež, Czech Republic
2. Institute of Rock Structure and Mechanics, Czech Academy of Sciences, 18209 Prague, Czech Republic
Interests: neutron and photon activation analyses and accelerator mass spectrometry, and their application in geological, geochemical and environmental research; geochemistry of tektites and impact glasses; radiolytic alteration of organic matter in uraniferous environment
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Prof. Dr. Pei Ni

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1. State Key Laboratory for Mineral Deposits Research, Institute of Geofluids, Frontiers Science Center for Critical Earth Material Cycling, School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
2. Joint Research Center for Circum-Pacific Strategic Mineral Resources, Nanjing 210000, China
Interests: hydrothermal ore deposits; mineral, fluid and melt inclusion; mineral resource prospecting and exploration; tectonics and metallogeny
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Prof. Dr. Naoko Okibe

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Department of Earth Resources Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
Interests: biohydrometallurgy; biomining; bioleaching; biooxidation; bioreduction; metal bioremediation; geomicrobiology
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Prof. Dr. Yuri N. Palyanov

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1. VS Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
2. Geology Geophysics Department, Novosibirsk State University, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
Interests: synthetic and natural diamonds; diamond synthesis and growth; high pressure high temperature; experimental modelling of natural diamond formation; diamond mineralogy; diamond properties and applications
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Dr. Lucia Pappalardo

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Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia Sezione di Napoli – Osservatorio Vesuviano, 80124 Naples, Italy
Interests: petrology and volcanology; alkaline rocks; volcanic hazard; supereruptions; microtomography

Prof. Dr. Georgia Pe-Piper

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Department of Geology, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, NS B3H 3C3, Canada
Interests: igneous petrology and geochemistry; clastic sedimentary diagenesis and provenance; rock-forming minerals; detrital minerals and sediment provenance; diagenetic minerals in sandstones
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Dr. Amin Beiranvand Pour

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Institute of Oceanography and Environment (INOS), Higher Institution Center of Excellence (HICoE) in Marine Science, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), Kuala Nerus 21030, Malaysia
Interests: remote sensing; environment; satellite image processing; geological mapping; minerals; exploration geology; mining; exploration geophysics
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Dr. Mark I. Pownceby

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CSIRO Mineral Resources, Research Way, Clayton, VIC 3168, Australia
Interests: applied/process mineralogy; experimental petrology and phase equilibria; geometallurgy; iron ore characterization and processing (beneficiation, agglomeration, sintering); ore mineralogy; materials characterization (SEM, EPMA, in situ XRD); heavy mineral sand deposits; uranium deposits; hydrometallurgy
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Dr. Olivier Proux

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Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble, OSUG, Université Grenoble-Alpes, CNRS, IRD, INRAE, Météo-France, 122 rue de la piscine, 38400 Saint Martin d’Hères, France
Interests: synchrotron instrumentation; X-ray absorption spectroscopy; speciation of trace elements; Earth and environmental sciences; material characterization

Dr. Emilio L. Pueyo

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IGME (CSIC), Unidad de Zaragoza, C/Manuel Lasala 44, 9 B, 50006 Zaragoza, Spain
Interests: mineral and rock magnetism and petrophysics; applications to tectonics, structural geology, paleomagnetism and geophysical exploration

Dr. Thierry De Putter

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Belgian Science Policy Office (Belspo), Bd Simon Bolivar 30, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium
Interests: Paleoproterozoic sedimentary deposits; supergene ore deposits; Cu-Co-U, Mn and Fe deposits; Africa; D.R. Congo; artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM)
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Dr. Chongchong Qi

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School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300350, China
Interests: solid waste minimisation; cemented paste backfill; pollution reduction; recycling; first-principles calculations; molecular dynamics; artificial intelligence
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Dr. Clemente Recio

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Deportment of Geology (Petrology and Geochemistry), University of Salamanca, Plaza de los Caídos s/n, 37008 Salamanca, Spain
Interests: geochemistry; biogeochemistry; stable isotopes; IRMS; granite genesis; mineralizing fluids; hydrocarbon provenance; environmental pollution; forensic isotopes
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Prof. Dr. Ivica Ristović

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Faculty of Mining and Geology, University of Belgrade, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Interests: mining; mechanization; environment; secondary raw materials; treatment and recycling of industrial and mining wastes
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Dr. Giovanna Rizzo

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Department of Sciences, Macchia Romana Campus, University of Basilicata, 85100 Potenza, Italy
Interests: magmatic and metamorphic petrography; naturally occurring asbestos; ophiolitic sequence; geomaterials
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Prof. Dr. Yul Roh

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Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Chonnam National University, Gwangju 61186, Republic of Korea
Interests: biomineralization (biologically induced mineralization and biologically controlled mineralization); reduction and precipitation of redox-sensitive metals and radionuclides; metal recover; mineral microorganisms
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Dr. Robert A. Root

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Department Environmental Science, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Interests: geochemistry; metal speciation; EXAFS; XANES; X-ray spectroscopy; weathering; contaminant transport; medical mineralogy

Dr. Stefano Salvi

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Géosciences Environnement Toulouse (GET), University of Toulouse, 31400 Toulouse, France
Interests: economic geology; formation of high-tech metal deposits; alkaline rocks; hydrothermal transport of REE and HFSE; fluid inclusions; orogenic gold deposits
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Dr. José Francisco Santos

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Department of Geosciences, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
Interests: igneous and metamorphic petrology; geochemistry; radiogenic isotope geology; sediment provenance studies; provenance studies applied to archaeology; geology of Iberia; geology of Iran

Prof. Dr. Guanghai Shi

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State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources, China University of Geosciences, Beijing 100083, China
Interests: mineralogy; petrology; ore deposits; U-Pb geochronology gemmology; microstructures
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Dr. Carlos Sierra Fernández

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Department of Mining, Topography and Structural Engineering, University of León, Av/Silverio Fernández Tirador, 24007 León, Spain
Interests: environmental engineering; process engineering; mineral processing; environmental conditions in mines; risk assessment; geometallurgy; environmental geochemistry; soil pollution; soil washing; hazardous materials management
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Dr. Ricardo Silva

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Department of Geology, School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin, 1 Park Ln E, Dublin 2, Ireland
Interests: petrography; microfacies analysis; sedimentary basins; sedimentology; petroleum geology; geochemistry; sediments; stratigraphy; climate change

Prof. Dr. Rolf Sjöblom

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Waste Science & Technology, Luleå University of Technology, 97187 Luleå, Sweden
Interests: inorganic, physical and structural chemistry; waste and tailings management; industrial processes; archaeological and historic aspects

Dr. Alexander G. Sokol

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V.S. Sobolev Institute of Geology and Mineralogy of the Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
Interests: mantle petrology; fluid regime; abiotic hydrocarbons; diamond genesis; kimberlite
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Prof. Dr. Alireza Somarin

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Department of Geology, Brandon University, Brandon, MB R7A 6A9, Canada
Interests: mineralogy; geochemistry; hydrothermal alteration; ore deposit

Dr. Mercedes Suárez

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Departamento de Geología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Salamanca, Plaza del la Merced s/n, 37008 Salamanca, Spain
Interests: industrial minerals; clay minerals; physicochemical
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Dr. Abbas Taheri

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Chair in Mine Design, The Robert M. Buchan Department of Mining, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada
Interests: drilling performance; rock burst investigation; behaviour of cement paste backfill material; slope and underground opening stability; advanced laboratory and field testing methods; soil improvement methods
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