Rosie Blannin is a geologist turned geometallurgist from the UK. She graduated from Imperial College London with a BSc Geology in 2016. Following this, she undertook the EMerald Erasmus Mundus Masters, a program focused on characterisation, processing and modelling in georesources engineering, and graduated in 2018. During this time, she studied at Université de Liège (Belgium), École Nationale Supérieure de Géologie in Nancy (France) and Luleå University of Technology (Sweden). Rosie then completed her Master’s thesis at the Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology and Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg (Germany), where she worked on a geometallurgical study of the copper and gold deportment of the Bolcana porphyry system.
As part of SULTAN, Rosie is working at the Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology. Her research focuses on the geometallurgical characterisation of sulfidic Cu-Zn-Pb tailings deposits from the Freiberg region. This entails studying the composition of the materials, and the distribution of valuable elements (such as copper, zinc and lead), critical elements (such as indium, germanium and gallium) and pollutants (such as arsenic and cadmium). Using these results, an internationally accepted reporting mineral resources and reserves standard will be applied, and a 3D model of the tailings deposit will be built. The possible beneficiation routes of the material will be assessed, and a 3D geometallurgical resource potential model of the tailings deposit will be built, by integrating the research of the other SULTAN ESRs.
Poster: Development of a sampling protocol for the resource assessment of sulphidic Cu Zn Pb tailings in an industrial tailings storage facility
SULTAN_poster_ESR3_Rosie_BlanninBlog posts:
Don’t take Geology for Granite! – Why SULTAN needs geologists
According to Sheldon Cooper of The Big Bang Theory, “Geology is the Kardashians of science”. But where did geologists get such a bad rep? And why to people seem to think geology is boring?
SULTAN poster
SULTAN project poster
(Science) mining in Portugal
The 3rd Network Wide Event (NWE3) of SULTAN project not only allows early researchers and partners to exchange scientific ideas but also offer magnificent hands-on experiences at the same time: A brief travel into the past and gain useful knowledge for future sustainable mining
A week in Freiberg… (SULTAN Network-Wide Event 2)
On the first day, the SULTAN colleagues reunited in Freiberg, almost 7 months after the kick-off meeting in Leuven, and were happy to greet each other again before the official meeting started.
A bike ride back in time: Freiberg’s historical mining sites
On a beautiful sunny day, I went on a bike ride around some of the old mine working and mining waste deposits near Freiberg. Over twenty kilometers later, and after many (too many) hills, I arrived home somewhat tired, but excited to share what I learnt.
KU Leuven SOLVOMET visit
After SULTAN Kick-off meeting, ESRs were invited to visit the labs in the geology and chemistry buildings at KU Leuven. SOLVOMET visit Centre for Solvometallurgy (SOLVOMET) at KU Leuven Campus Arenberg III in the Leuven Chem&Tech building where dr. Nerea Rodriguez kindly greeted us and took us on a tour of the Centre, showing us …
KU Leuven GEO-INSTITUTE visit
From 11th to 13th February, the SULTAN program Kick-off meeting was held in Leuven, where all partners and early stage researchers (ESRs) had the opportunity to meet each other and share information about the different work packages and the state of the research. On the third day, the ESRs were invited to visit the labs …