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: chemical engineering; hydrometallurgy; environmental chemcial engineering; vanadium; chromium; waste management
Interests: municipal and industrial waste management; circular economy; biogas; waste-to-energy; mineral carbonation
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Interests: cultural heritage; cleaning; consolidation; water-repelling; tempera paints; non-invasive techniques
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Interests: mineral carbonation; CO2 sequestration; reservoir engineering; enhanced oil recovery (EOR); geochemical analysis; elemental analysis; energy conservation
Interests: sustainable concrete; geopolymer; alkali activated cement; aluminosilicate; natural pozzolan; additive manufacturing; 3D printing; fibre-reinforcement composite
Interests: mineral carbonation; concurrent grinding; CCUS; emission reduction
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Interests: reactive minerals; clay liners; degradation of pollutants
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Interests: mineralogy; geochemistry; petrology
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Interests: meteorites; Martian meteorites; isotope geochronology (meteorites); cosmochemistry
2. Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of the Witwatersrand, 1 Jan Smuts Ave., Johannesburg 2000, South Africa
Interests: mineral processing; flotation cells; hydrodynamics; solid–fluid dynamics; energy; sustainability; modelling; mining; coarse flotation; fine particles; bubble; image processing; gravity separation; flotation; attachment and detachment
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Interests: petrology; mineralogy; geochemistry; geochronology; ore deposits; alkaline rocks; rare metal mineralization
Interests: clay minerals; shale characterization; sedimentary provenance and paleoclimate proxies; diagenesis and geochronology in sedimentary basins; clay interaction with natural and anthropic fluids; carbon dioxide capture and geological storage
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Interests: archaeometry; archaeological ceramics; ceramic petrography; social technology; raw materials
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Interests: mechanical enrichment; high-pressure comminution; mathematical modeling; optimization of selected operations in mineral processing; effectiveness of beneficiation processes; aggregate processing; economics of mineral processing; environmental footprints of mineral processing
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Interests: sustainable small scale mining; mining methods and techniques for small scale underground mining
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2. Honorary Research Associate Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ, UK
Interests: sustainability and circular economy in mining; Life Cycle Assessment; mineral processing; process simulation; ore characterisation
Interests: regional geophysics; geophysical responses of mineral systems; petrophysics; mineral mapping; geodynamic settings of mineral deposit systems; spatial data analysis
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Interests: bioenergy; environmental biotechnology; industrial biotechnology; waste to energy; wastewater treatment; bioreactors; algal bio-processes
Interests: ore minerals; hydrothermal processes; geochemistry; petrology; earth sciences
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Interests: carbon dioxide sequestration; unconventional resources; shale; reservoir characterization; petrophysics; scanning electron microscopy; micro-CT
Interests: hazards; risk assessment; tailings management facility; safety assessment; land-use planning
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Interests: materials science; microstructure analysis; waste processing; hot dip galvanizing; surface engineering; environmental engineering
Interests: mineral exploration and mining geophysics; engineering and environmental geophysics; petrophysics, especially electrical conductivity of rocks and sediments; applications of EM, gravity, magnetic and electrical techniques (especially spectral IP) for mineral exploration problems; Arctic infrastructures, mining and permafrost
Interests: image analysis; microstructural analysis; thermodynamics; GIS; metamorphic petrology; serpentinites; asbestos
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Interests: layered intrusions; crystal mush dynamics; magma transport; magmatic deformation; rock’s microstructure; EBSD
Interests: operational unit modeling; simulation, and control; machine learning; optimization; processes critical factor identification; dynamic and static modelling (data driven and mechanistic); sustainability analysis; energy and exergy evaluation; chemical analyses; systems automatize; project management
Interests: iron formations; geology; geochemistry; redox states; Precambrian
Interests: fine chemicals; hydrometallurgy; flotation; nonferrous metals; manganese; heavy metal wastewater
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Interests: adsorption materials; porous materials; radionuclides separation; separation science and technology; waste treatment and disposal
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Interests: computational mechanics; particle-based solvers; discrete element modeling, generative deep learning models; knowledge discovery systems; data science