Minerals

Prof. Dr. Mostafa Benzaazoua

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Geology and Sustainable Mining Institute (GSMI), University Mohammed VI Polytechnic (UM6P), Ben Guerir 43150, Morocco
Interests: inorganic industrial and mining wastes; environmental characterization; treatment and recycling of industrial and mining wastes; waste reprocessing; integrated management of mining wastes
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Prof. Dr. Andrew Berry

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Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
Interests: experimental petrology; XANES spectroscopy; redox variable elements; silicate melts

Prof. Dr. Ilya Bindeman

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Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403, USA
Interests: stable isotope geochemistry; early earth; zircons; triple oxygen isotopes; calderas; volcanic eruptions

Prof. Dr. Jean-François Blais

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Center Water Earth Environment, National Institute for Scientific Research (INRS), 490, rue de la Couronne, Québec, QC G1K 9A9, Canada
Interests: hydrometallurgy; leaching; bioleaching; adsorption; metal; mining residue; hazardous waste; effluent

Prof. Dr. Andrea Bloise

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Department of Biology, Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Calabria, 87036 Rende, Italy
Interests: asbestos; synthesis; crystals growth; synthetic fibres
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Dr. Anastassia Yurievna Borisova

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Géosciences Environnement Toulouse (GET), Université de Toulouse, CNRS, IRD, UPS, France, 14 Avenue E. Belin, 31400 Toulouse, France
Interests: magma genesis; magma-rock interaction
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Dr. Antonella Buccianti

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Department of Earth Science, University of Florence, 50121 Florence, Italy
Interests: water chemistry; compositional data analysis; statistics; dynamics of complex systems

Prof. Dr. Alan R. Butcher

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Circular Economy Solutions Unit, Circular Raw Materials Hub, Geological Survey of Finland, F1-02151 Espoo, Finland
Interests: geoanalytical techniques; battery minerals
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Prof. Dr. Yijun Cao

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School of Chemical Engineering, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
Interests: fine particle flotation; flotation kinetics; mineral materials; modelling; surface chemistry; wastewater treatment; waste management
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Dr. Véronique Carrere

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Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique de Nantes, University of Nantes, 2 rue de la Houssinière, BP92208 44322 Nantes, CEDEX 3, France
Interests: field and imaging spectroscopy; extraction of physical parameters; quantitative research; application to environmental geology
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Dr. Rodrigo Magalhães de Carvalho

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Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, COPPE, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro 21941-972, RJ, Brazil
Interests: comminution; discrete element method; modeling and simulation; classification; numerical methods; materials handling; mineral processing
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Dr. Michel Cathelineau

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Laboratoire GeoRessources, CNRS, Université de Lorraine, F-54000 Nancy, France
Interests: ore genesis; water-rock interactions; fluid inclusions; rock geochemistry; mineral crystal-chemistry; geo-thermo-barometry

Dr. Francesco Cavalcante

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Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis, Italian National Research Council, 00185 Rome, Italy
Interests: clays; clay minerals; geodynamic; climate change; provenance; diagenesis; low grade metamorphism; mixed-layers clay minerals and quantitative analysis of clays
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Dr. Alain Chauvet

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UMR 5243, Géosciences Montpellier, University of Montpellier, cc 60, CEDEX 5, 34095 Montpellier, France
Interests: structural context; mineralized lode; internal texture; trap geometry; magmatism
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Prof. Dr. Jianhua Chen

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School of Resources, Environment and Materials, Guangxi University, Nanning 530004, China
Interests: flotation; DFT simulation; interface chemistry
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Prof. Dr. Hongfei Cheng

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School of Earth Science and Resources, Chang’an University, Xi’an 710054, China
Interests: mineralogy; applied clay science; environmental science; soil science
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Dr. Nikita V. Chukanov

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Federal Research Center of Problems of Chemical Physics and Medicinal Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, 142432 Moscow, Russia
Interests: new mineral species; infrared spectroscopy of minerals; mineralogy of akaline rocks and related pegmatites and hydrothermal systems; organic mineralogy; crystal chemistry and properties of microporous minerals
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Dr. Alessandra Costanzo

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Earth and Ocean Sciences, School of Natural Sciences, University of Galway, H91 CF50 Galway, Ireland
Interests: mineralogy; gemology; geofluids; igneous petrology; economic geology; sedimentary deposits
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Prof. Dr. Alexandra Courtin

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Earth Sciences Department, Orsay Sciences Faculty, Paris Saclay University, 91405 Orsay, France
Interests: environmental mineralogy; minerals chemistry; environmental issues and natural resources
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Prof. Dr. Massimo D’Antonio

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Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, dell’Ambiente e delle Risorse, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Complesso Universitario di Monte Sant’Angelo, Via Vicinale Cupa Cintia 21, 80126 Napoli, Italy
Interests: geochemistry; radiogenic and stable isotopes geochemistry; igneous petrology; volcanology; tephrochronology and tephrostratigraphy; diffusion chronometry; human mobility and diet; environmental isotope geochemistry; archaeometry
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Dr. Lidong Dai

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Key Laboratory of High Temperature and High Pressure Study of the Earth’s Interior, Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guiyang 550081, China
Interests: electrical properties of mineral and rock; spectroscopy property measurements; X-Ray diffraction for synchrotron; scanning electron microscope; high-temperature; high-pressure
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Dr. Giovanni De Giudici

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Dipartimento di Scienze Chimiche e Geologiche, Università degli studi di Cagliari, 09124 Cagliari, Italy
Interests: biomineralization processes; bioremediation and biomonitoring; environmental mineralogy; stability and reactivity of minerals; sustainability of mine processes; synchrotron techniques applied to environmental studies

Dr. Chad D. Deering

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Department of Geological/Mining Engineering & Sciences, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931, USA
Interests: geochemistry; mineralogy; magmatology; volcanology; igneous petrology
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Prof. Dr. Dave Deglon

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Centre for Minerals Research, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town 7700, South Africa
Interests: mineral flotation; flotation cells; computational fluid dynamics
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Dr. Andreas Delimitis

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Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR-54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
Interests: electron microscopy; energy/environmental nanomaterials; catalysis; semiconductors; thermoelectrics; electron crystallography; EM image processing & simulation; electron spectroscopy-channeling; solar cells; CCUS nanomaterials
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Prof. Dr. Jiushuai Deng

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Key Laboratory of Separation and Processing of Symbiotic-Associated Mineral Resources in Non-Ferrous Metal Industry, National Engineering Laboratory for Efficient Utilization of Indium and Tin Resources (Beijing), School of Chemical & Environmental Engineering, China University of Mining & Technology (Beijing), Beijing 100083, China
Interests: mineral engineering; mineral materials; separation and purification; coal flotation; adsorption mechanism
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Prof. Dr. Harald G. Dill

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Mineralogical Institute, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University, Welfengarten 1, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
Interests: economic geology; technical mineralogy; applied sedimentology-geomorphology; archeo-metallurgy; pegmatites; placers; clay minerals; supergene alteration; actuo-geology; ore geology strategic elements
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Dr. Xing Ding

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State Key Laboratory of Isotope Geochemistry, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China
Interests: water–rock interaction; element and isotope geochemistry; the hydrolysis behavior of metal complexes
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Dr. Andrea Dini

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Instituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, CNR, 56127 Pisa PI, Italy
Interests: ore deposits; granite petrology; geothermal systems

Dr. Simon Dominy

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Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter, Penryn, Cornwall TR10 9FE, UK
Interests: economic geology; mineral exploration; orebody knowledge; geometallurgy; mining geology
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