GE716 - GEORESOURCES AND INDUSTRIAL MINERALS

courses
ID:
GE716
Duration (hours):
60
CFU:
6
SSD:
GEORISORSE MINERARIE E APPLICAZIONI MINERALOGICO-PETROGRAFICHE PER L'AMBIENTE E I BENI CULTURALI
Located in:
CHIETI
Url:
GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES FOR RISKS, RESOURCES AND THE ENVIRONMENT/GEORISORSE Year: 1
Year:
2025
Course Catalogue:
https://unich.coursecatalogue.cineca.it/af/2025?co...

Overview

Date/time interval

Secondo Semestre (23/02/2026 - 29/05/2026)

Syllabus

Course Objectives


Provide a complete overview of the various types of georisources present in nature, their retrieval and possibility of application.

Detail the various characterization methodologies.

Indicate the mineral synthesis methodologies useful from georisources in environmental and non environmental conditions. Quantification of mineralogical phases in synthetic products.


Course Prerequisites


Good knowledge of the chemical, mineralogical and petrographic disciplines.

Teaching Methods


Lectures and practical exercises in the laboratory.

Assessment Methods


Verifications in progress through written tests.

The final grade will be the average of the individual votes.

Texts


-Industrial minerals and rocks (Commodities, Markets and Uses). 7th edition edited by Kogel, Trivedi, Barker and Krukowski.

-D.A.C. Manning. Introduction to Industrial Minerals. Springer.

-B. Velde. Introduction to Clay Minerals. Springer.

-Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry, Vol.74: Applied Mineralogy of Cement & Concrete. Mineralogical Society of America, Geochemical Society. Ed. J.J. Rosso

.J. P. Ingham. Geomaterials under the microscope. Manson Publishing.

-Materiale e dispense fornite dal docente


Contents


GEO-RESOURCES AND INDUSTRIAL MINERALS:
• Clays (kaolin and ceramic materials)
• Minerals for agriculture and the chemical industry
• Raw materials for the glass industry
• Tripoli, microcrystalline silica, and diatomites
• Calcium silicates and feldspathoids for industrial and medical use
• Industrial cements
• Zeolites (deposits, synthesis, and applications)
• Pigments
- wastewater from agri-food processes and their use in the synthesis of useful minerals
CHARACTERIZATION OF GEO-MATERIALS
Behavior under environmental and experimental conditions
SYNTHESIS OF INDUSTRIAL MINERALS FROM GEO-RESOURCES
• Hydrothermal synthesis
• High-P and -T synthesis
• Case studies
X-RAY DIFFRACTION AND METHODS FOR QUANTIFICATION OF POWDER PHASES
• Method rietveld
• QPA (quantitative phase analysis) and RIR (reference intensity ratio)

Course Language


Italian

More information


There is a reception for students on days and times to be agreed.

tel: 08713556153.

email: daniela.novembre@unich.it

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