(Re)Mining Extractive Waste

Srećko Bevandić, is a geoscientist with an interest in geometallurgy, mining geology and circular economy. Since 2019, he has been working on the EU H2020 MSCA-ITN-ETN SULTAN project dealing with the remediation and reprocessing of sulfidic mining waste sites. His focus is on assessing the potential of mining waste as an alternative deposit type (Plombières tailing pond), supplying metal and ceramic industry with critical and strategic raw materials. His expertise includes economic evaluations of metals, the conversion of geological data into mining data, bulk and in-depth characterization of different materials and interpretation of complex data.

Andreas Hoppe, research engineer at thyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions, Germany. He studied energy- and plant engineering and received his PhD from Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany in 2005. He has more than 15 years of experience in the cement and ore processing industry with a focus on the development of pyroprocessing concepts including cement  production and ore refinement.

Max Frenzel is Group Leader in Geometallurgy at the Helmholtz-Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology. He obtained his M.Sci. degree in 2012 from the University of Cambridge, UK, followed by a Ph.D. degree in 2016 from TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany. His research covers relevant aspects of the formation, modelling, and exploitation of mineral deposits, as well as the modelling of raw material supply chains.

Arne has received a master and doctoral degree in Materials Engineering from KU Leuven. During these studies, his interest in metallurgy was transformed into a love for the valorization of industrial by-products. The PhD, delivered in 2018, focused on the reaction mechanisms for alkali-activation of iron-rich slags that can be used as a sustainable cementitious binder. Since 2019, he is working at VITO to transform a wide variety of mineral residues in cement and concrete constituents. He manages the research in a few projects and tries to understand and communicate about how industrial residues can be used in construction materials.

ir Thomas Lapauw has obtained a master degree in materials science at KU Leuven in 2013. During his doctoral thesis, he studied intensively the synthesis of high temperature ceramics for nuclear applications. Since 2018, he is active at ResourceFull as CTO where he returned to room temperature chemistry to develop ecological-friendly building materials and enthusiastically committed himself to a more sustainable and circular construction world.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Daniel Goldmann is the Chairman of the board of CUTEC Clausthal Research Center for Environmental Technologies; Director of the Institute of Mineral and Waste Processing, Waste Disposal and Geomechanics; and Head of the Department of Mineral and Waste Processing at TU Clausthal.

His scientific focus is on flotation, mechanical and hydrometallurgical processing of complex, metal bearing waste streams and ores, esp. critical raw materials; recycling strategies for and in complex structures of advanced circular economy.

Anders Sand (D.Sc., Docent, QP) is a Research manager at Boliden Mines.

Anders Sand has about 15 years’ experience in senior academic and corporate positions in the mining industry, with the main field of expertise in mineral processing technology. At Boliden he has held positions as Process Manager, Manager of the Process Technology R&D Programme and currently as Research Manager.

He holds a D.Sc. degree in Chemical Engineering from Åbo Akademi University, Finland and is Docent in Mineral Processing at Luleå University of Technology, Sweden.

Geologist from KU Leuven, working at Wienerberger since 1989. Head of the central R&D lab for roof tiles in Kortrijk (Belgium) since 2009. Also Head of the central R&D lab for facing bricks in Beerse (Belgium) since 2014.

Francisco Veiga Simão is a Portuguese geoscientist with an entrepreneurial mind-set and a passion for circular economy. Holds a BSc in Geology and a MSc in Geosciences with specialisation in geological resources from the University of Coimbra (Portugal). During his graduate studies he also attended the University of Oviedo (Spain) and The University Centre in Svalbard (Norway). Currently works at Wienerberger NV (Belgium) as an Early Stage Researcher (ESR12) within the EU-H2020-MSCA-ITN-ETN-SULTAN project and is a PhD researcher at the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium). His research is focused on the sustainable use of (cleaned) sulphidic mining waste in building ceramics. Helped to found and raise a Portuguese start-up company (Geonatour), which does geological consulting jobs and promotes geodiversity through a mobile application. Worked as an intern geologist in a Portuguese technology start-up company (Primelayer), where he did consultancy jobs on e-waste management. Was also a co-founder of an entrepreneurial project (WEEE-DO) aiming to maximise the efficiency of the collection, reuse, and recycling of electronic waste in Utrecht (The Netherlands). Recently, co-founded the Energy and Climate Forum (FEC), a Portuguese NGO focused on promoting and supporting climate resilient and sustainable projects around 9 Portuguese-speaking countries (Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Equatorial Guinea, Mozambique, Portugal, São Tomé and Príncipe, and East-Timor).

Dr. Mafalda Oliveira has a Geology degree from University of Oporto (FCUP). She is the head of Department of Dams, Tailings, Mining Waste and Water at Somincor – Lundin Mining. Member of national committees and international professional societies) and standards committees (CEN/TC396, Working Group 6, Earthworks Part 7). Member of Tailings Work Group (TWG), as an expert representing ANIET and SOMINCOR in Euromines, for the Revision of Best Available Techniques for management of tailings and waste rock in mining industry.

Alexandra Escobar is a geological engineer with over 10 years of experience in different areas of economic geology: geological modelling, resources estimation and technical, economic and legal valorization of mining properties. In addition, she has 4+ years of international experience in geometallurgical characterization of industrial and metallic minerals and critical raw materials in England and France (Portuguese and German deposits). She has taken the role of main research engineer in the recovery of critical minerals from old tailings dumps and from primary raw materials.

Ville Heikkinen is Research manager in Terrafame Sotkamo mine and holds an MSc in Physical chemistry, Graduated from University of Oulu, Finland. Ville has 18 years of experience in R&D and operations in hydrometallurgical industry. He has worked with the Terrafame process for 16 years involving positions in R&D, metals recovery and bioleaching.

Dr. Anne-Gwénaëlle Guezennec is an expert in biohydrometallurgy and more specifically in bioleaching process design. Her research work focuses on three main areas: the characterization of mass and energy transfer in bioleaching reactors and their influence on microorganisms activities; the design of innovative bioreactor; the adaptation of bioleaching processes to unconventional resources such as electronic wastes, complex mining wastes, lateritic resources. She has developed a novel and original research methodology relying on the association of innovative numerical modelling and multiscale experimental approaches to study the complex interactions occurring in a bioleaching reactor between the microbes and the G/L/S phases.