Topical Advisory Panel for section 'Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy'
- 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
Please see the section webpage for more information on this section.
Members
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: mineral processing; comminution; modeling; energy optimization; pollution remediation
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Interests: steady-state and dynamic process simulations; unit and process optimization; crushing and screening modelling; aggregates; data science; environmental product declarations and operator training
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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: comminution processes; Crushers; screens; HPGR; UFG; process simulations and optimization; multidiciplinary optimization of comminution processes including business mangement; optimization; machine learning; artificial intelligence
Interests: comminution; mill modelling; crusher modelling; circuits optimisation; attainable region
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Interests: urban mining; electronic waste recycling; biohydrometallurgy; biomineralization
Interests: geometallurgy; battery minerals; cobalt; rare earths elements; mineral processing; process mineralogy; theory of sampling; traceability; circular economy
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Interests: process engineering; hydrometallurgy; extractive metallurgy; membrane technologies; mine waste valorization
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Interests: mineral separation; flotation reagents; surface analysis; leaching; industrial wastewater treatment; mineral surface chemistry; process mineralogy; comprehensive utilization of mineral resources
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Interests: gaining access to high-tech and critical raw materials: understanding the factors that drive and limit extractive metallurgy; electrochemistry and materials characterization: moving toward crystal structure, molecular formula, and atomic scale; synthetic crystals as a replacement for critical raw materials; enhancement of overall process performance and energy/material utilization: a move toward dry laboratories and data bank
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2. Principal Researcher of the Water Research Center for Agriculture and Mining CRHIAM (ANID/FONDAP/15130015), Victoria 1295, Barrio Universitario, Concepción, Chile
Interests: surface chemistry; froth flotation; rheology of mineral suspensions; geometallurgy; clay minerals in flotation; seawater in mineral processing; sensors development
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Interests: collophanite; phosphate tailings; colloidal chemistry of flotation
Interests: heap leaching; heap hydrodynamics; percolation leaching; low grade ore processing; mine waste management; e-waste management; e-waste value recovery; sustainability; sustainable development goals (SDGs)
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Interests: extractive metallurgy
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Interests: mineral processing and extractive metallurgy; feldspar flotation; industrial minerals; potash recovery from potassium feldspars; polymer recycling; flame reterdancy of carbonate minerals
Interests: froth flotation of oxide minerals; flotation reagent molecular design; phyllosilicate surface physiochemistry
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Interests: metal leaching; metal recovery; grenner solvents; nanomaterial; adsorptive removal; microwave-assisted extrcation; ultrasound-assisted extraction; sequential extraction; metal speciation; multivariate optimization
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Interests: geochemistry; sedimentary systems; chemical weathering; critical materials; rare earth elements; coal; coal utilization byproducts; mining; energy
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Interests: grinding(superfine grinding) in high energy density mills; mechanical activation; preparation and utilization of solid wastes; geopolymer; development of grindability methods
Interests: hydrometallurgy; environmental process engineering; reductive precipitation; mine water treatment; particulate processes
Interests: multi-objective control; indirect measurements and soft sensing; process modeling; Industry 4.0; IoT; Edge Computing solutions; raw materials processing; design of innovative devices, circuits, and control strategies for mineral processing
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Interests: liberation; ore characterization; comminution; process mineralogy
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Interests: chemical engineering; hydrometallurgy; environmental chemcial engineering; vanadium; chromium; waste management
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: 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: materials science; microstructure analysis; waste processing; hot dip galvanizing; surface engineering; environmental engineering
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: fine chemicals; hydrometallurgy; flotation; nonferrous metals; manganese; heavy metal wastewater
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Interests: computational mechanics; particle-based solvers; discrete element modeling, generative deep learning models; knowledge discovery systems; data science