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Mineral Exploration Symposium

Thanks to the European Commission, LIGHTS is present at the Mineral Exploration Symposium organised by the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers on 17-18 September 2020!

link: https://eage.eventsair.com/mineral-exploration-symposium/


ANNUAL MEETING

This year the general meeting took place in the shape of videoconferences and gathered more than 20 members from the consortium and guests.

Planned tests field missions had to be postponed due to the epidemic event, however lab measurements, database and software development are still on progress.


Workshop LIGHTS

7. May 2019 – Porto, Portugal

The workshop will take place at the Faculty of Sciences at University of Porto.
http://sigarra.up.pt/fcup/en/web_base.gera_pagina?p_pagina=1006108
Amphitheatre -120 on Building FC3
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTy591eKAA8&list=PLWL3virDw33cOrfFLBlDmcvCueyjIsOUv

Morning (Chair Alexandre Lima)
9.00-9.10 Opening – Cristina Freire (Director of FCUP) & Joaquim Esteves (Director of DGAOT)
9.10-9.40 Lithium exploration in Northern Portugal – Alexandre Lima (FCUP)
9.40-10.10 Metassedimentary host-rocks of Li-bearing pegmatites – Maria Anjos Ribeiro (FCUP)
10.10-10.40 Satellite Remote sensing applied to Li-bearing pegmatites – Ana Teodoro (FCUP)
Coffee break
11.00-11.30 Latest developments on Handheld LIBS for Li analysis – Live demo – Pedro Machaqueiro (EMEA)
11.30-12.00 The use of LIBS on Li analysis – Cecile Fabre (UL)
Lunch break

Afternoon (Chair Jean Cauzid)
14.00 – 14.30 The LaBex R21 Research program from exploration to recycling – Jean Cauzid (UL)
14.30 – 15.00 Processing Li ores from Portugal – Machado Leite (LNEG)
15.00 – 15.30 Lithium – metallurgy and Sustainability – António Fiúza (FEUP)
Coffee Break
16.00 – 16.30 Towards real time ore grading systems using smart LIBs – Pedro Jorge (INESC)
16.30 – 17.00 Mineral Resources of Portugal: difficulties & opportunities – Luis Martins (ACPMR)
17.00 – 17.30 The Mina do Barroso Li Project – David Price (Savannah)

Affiliations
ACPMR – Associação Cluster Portugal Mineral Resources, Estremoz, Portugal
DGAOT – Departamento de Geociências, Ambiente e Ordenamento do Território
EMEA – EMEA ElectroSolutions, Barreiro, Portugal
FEUP – Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
FCUP – Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal
INESC – Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Porto, Portugal
LNEG – Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia, Porto, Portugal
Savannah – Savannah Resources Portugal
UL – Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France