On August 14, 2023, Ana Luiza Coelho Braga de Carvalho successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “Investigations on the reprocessing of fine particles from sulfidic tailings through flotation”. Ana Luiza did her PhD at the Institute of Mineral and Waste Processing, Recycling and Circular Economy Systems of the TU Clausthal and was one of the Early Stage Researchers of the MSCA-ETN SULTAN project. Ana Luiza carried out her PhD in Environmental Process Engineering ...
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What does Covid-19 Pandemic have to do with Circular Economy?
The pandemic that we all experience is a wake-up call for something greater in world scale paradigm shifts. What are they exactly?
Read More »Tailings: how to deal with them? That is the question!
Starting from the removal of the ore from the ground to its transformation into a concentrate, several unsellable products are generated.
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SULTAN project poster
Read More »(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
Read More »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.
Read More »Summer School – Why should you join one?
Summer Schools tend to be interdisciplinary courses, which mean that you will meet people who work in the same area as you, and you can also work with people from different backgrounds.
Read More »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 the SOLVOMET laboratories and equipment. ...
Read More »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 in the geology and chemistry ...
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