Topical Advisory Panel
- Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Section
- Mineral Deposits Section
- Environmental Mineralogy and Biogeochemistry Section
- Mineral Geochemistry and Geochronology Section
- Crystallography and Physical Chemistry of Minerals & Nanominerals Section
- Mineral Exploration Methods and Applications Section
- Biomineralization and Biominerals Section
- Clays and Engineered Mineral Materials Section
Members
Interests: computational chemistry; molecular modeling; intermolecular interactions; environmental chemistry; soil chemistry; minerals-water interfaces; soil organic matter; organic pollutants; phosphates in soil; adsorption processes
Interests: iron and steel making; agglomeration; induration; smelting; direct reduction; high-temperature processing; blast furnace ferroalloys and their production; slag manipulation; metal manipulation; reaction kinetics
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Interests: U-Pb geochronology (zircon, apatite, titanite, rutile, monazite); tectonics; sediment transport; laser ablation (LA-ICPMS); low-temperature thermochronology
Interests: tectonics; structural geology; petrochronology; thermochronology; geochronology; exhumation processes; passive margins
Interests: igneous and metamorphic petrology; lithogeochemistry; economic geology
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Interests: waste to energy and value added product; environmental biotechnology; bioremediation and pyrolysis
Interests: biohydrometallurgy of base and precious metals; gold leaching; treatment of refractory gold ores; graphite purification; electrochemical methods in leaching applications; mineral electrode; WEEE; quartz bleaching
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Interests: petroleum geology; hydrocarbons; oil-gas; shale gas; geochemistry; source rocks; laminites; diatomite; sapropel; mudstones; basin development; rock eval pyrolysis; GC/MS chromatography; SEM; biostratigraphy; CO2, CH4, H2 underground storage, reservoir quality; paleo-environment; redox; MOZ
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Interests: comminution processes; Crushers; screens; HPGR; UFG; process simulations and optimization; multidiciplinary optimization of comminution processes including business mangement; optimization; machine learning; artificial intelligence
Interests: recycling and recovery of industrial waste (circular economy); rehabilitation of industrial wastelands; polluted sites; biotechnology; Precision Agriculture; geo-resources and built cultural heritage
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Interests: hydrometallurgy; separation process; electrodialysis; reverse osmosis; ultrafiltration; microfiltration; solvent extraction; recycling processes; circular economy; SDGs; net-zero emission
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Interests: geochemistry; trace elements; mineralogy; rare earth elements; ore deposits; karst bauxites
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Interests: drill & blast; quarrying; mining exploitation; dimension stones; mining equipment; controlled blasting; vibration monitoring; conventional & mechanised tunnelling; rock-tool interaction; excavation specific energy
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Interests: clay minerals; silicates; adsorption; intercalation; catalysis; gas-trapping; ion exchange; deflocculation; chemical garden
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Interests: Ca isotope; hydrothermal system; methane; carbon cycle
Interests: high-grade metamorphism; subduction zone geodynamics; thermodynamic modeling; HP-UHP minerals; EPMA microanalyses and applications; crust-mantle interactions
Interests: crushing; grinding; comminution; comminution circuit optimisation.
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Interests: biomining; chalcopyrite; ecology; extremophiles; horizontal gene transfer; genetics; CRISPR/Cas
Interests: material characterization; spectroscopy; nuclear magnetic resonance; infrared spectroscopy; Raman spectroscopy; Raman optical activity; UV-Vis spectroscopy; quantum-chemical calculations
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Interests: georesources; mineralogical and petrographic applications for environment and cultural heritage; alteration and provenance of stones and mortars; petrophysical-mechanical characterization of geomaterials
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Interests: economic geology; metallogeny; igneous petrology; regional geology; ore geology; exploration geology
Interests: scanning electron microscopy; microanalysis of minerals; multivariate statistics of mineral phases; asbestos fibers quantification; x-Ray spectrometry; trace elements; vibrational spectroscopy; luminescence
Interests: mantle petrology; HP-UHP minerals; ophiolites; fluid inclusions; impact cratering; origin of life; ore geology
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Interests: urban mining; electronic waste recycling; biohydrometallurgy; biomineralization
Interests: low temperature geochemistry; stable isotope geochemistry; paleoclimate; paleoenvironment
Interests: geometallurgy; process mineralogy; gravity concentration; Flotation; theory of sampling (TOS); battery minerals; critical metals; rare earths; cobalt
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Interests: clay minerals properties; hydrothermal alteration; rare earth elements recovery from unconventional deposit and mine waste
Interests: petrography; mineralogy and geochemistry of magmatic rocks; metal depositions of hydrothermal origin; environmental mineralogy and geochemistry; ancient and recent volcanic systems; archaeometry, analogues of hydrothermal systems on other planets of the Solar System; studies of hydrothermal systems
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Interests: gemstones; igneous petrology; alkaline rocks; ore deposits
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Interests: composition and evolution of mantle; thermal and redox state of subcratonic lithospheric mantle; mantle rocks and minerals; mineral thermobarometry; mineral oxybarometry; thermodynamics of minerals
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