20/01/2021-21/01/2021 - MINERAL DEPOSITS DOWN TO THE NANOSCALE: FOCUS ON PGE, BY DR J. M. GONZÁLEZ

Last January 20th and 21st took place the first activity organized by our Student Chapter in this 2021: “Virtual Short Course: Mineral Deposits Down to the Nanoscale: Focus on PGE Deposits”, given by Ph.D. José María González Jiménez and held in ZOOM.

Dr José María González Jiménez is currently working at the Department of Mineralogy and Petrology of the University of Granada and takes part in several projects and investigation topics, including one focused on Nanomineralogy and its application in Mineral Deposits, which is carried out in collaboration with some professors in our Faculty, the Faculty of Earth Sciences from the University of Barcelona.

This short course, imparted in two different days, was organized in order to have firstly an overview of the state of the art of the topic (what view do we have nowadays of Nanomineralogy, application to different types of deposits, etc.), to be able to go, further on, during the second session, deeper into the topic, and be able to learn more about Nanomineralogy and how it may contribute to the formation of PGE Deposits.

This was a very interesting short course that gave the participants an overview of another possible way of formation of deposits enriched in PGE, that basically proposes that these metals (PGE) could be remobilized in the fluid phase by means of Nanoparticles instead of as complexed ions in the fluid phase, as other metals such as Pb, Cu, etc. are thought to be mobilized.

We are very thankful to have had the opportunity to listen to José María during this Short Course, and we hope to be able to have him with us once more, to share and debate more about this very topic or new topics.