SONIC DRILLING COUPLED WITH AUTOMATED MINERALOGY & CHEMISTRY

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SONIC DRILLING COUPLED WITH AUTOMATED MINERALOGY & CHEMISTRY

Publications

Peer-reviewed and journalistic publications

[1] Kumar. A., Cassetta, M., Giarola, M., Zanatta, M., Le Guen, M., Soraru, G.D., Mariotto, G. (2021). Thermal Annealing and Phase Transformation of Serpentine-2 like Garnierite. Minerals, 11, 188; https://doi.org/10.3390/min11020188

[2] El Mendili, Y., Orberger, B., Chateigner, D., Bardeau, J.F., Gascoin, S., Perez, O., Khadraoui, F. (2020). Insight into the structural, elastic and electronic properties of a new orthorhombic 6O-SiC polytype. Scientific Reports Nature Research, 10:7562; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-64415-4

[3] El Mendili, Y., Chateigner, D. Orberger, B., Bardeau, JF., Gascoin, S., Perez, O.: Accessory minerals in siliceous breccia from Nickel laterites. (In press, Journal of Applied Crystallography).

[4] Orberger, B., van der Ent, A. (2019). Nickel laterites as sources of nickel, cobalt and scandium: Increasing resource efficiency through new geochemical and biological insights. Journal of Geochemical Exploration 204, 297-299; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gexplo.2019.06.004

[5] Orberger, B., Le Guen, M., Bui, T., Kanzari, A. Rodriguez, C., Prudhomme, A., Nolte, H., Teerlink, T., Koert, P., Pillière, H., Lefevre, T., El Mendili, A., Delchini, S., Grazulis, S., Grybauskas, A., Merkys, A., Vaitkus, A., Borovin, E., Lutterotti, L., Marchand, E. (2019). Sonic Drilling coupled with on-line-on-mine-analyses: field tests at the Villeveyrac bauxite deposit (S-France). International Metallogeny conference: SGA Biannual Meeting, Glasgow, Scotland, August 2019, Proceedings Volume 3, P. 1290-1294.

[6] Orberger, B. (2019). Going Sonic, Global Mining Magazine Review, April 2019, Volume 2 Issue 2: 65-69.

[7] Orberger, B. (2019). Sonic Drilling for rapid vectoring high quality alluvial diamond deposits. Coring Magazine, Issue 10, 28-34 (http://www.coringmagazine.com).

[8] Maubec, N., Blaineau, P. G., Duée, C., Da Silva Alves, A., Bourrat, X., Wille, G., Orberger, B., Le Guen, M., Villanova-de-Benavent, C. (2019). Garnierite characterisation for open data bases for Nickel laterite exploration. International Metallogeny conference: SGA Biannual Meeting, Glasgow, Scotland, August 2019, Proceedings Volume 3, P. 1370-1374.

[9] Lutterotti, L., Pilliére, H., Fontugne, C., Boullay, P., and Chateigner, D., (2019). Full-profile search-match by the Rietveld method. J. Appl. Cryst., 52(3), 587-598; https://doi.org/10.1107/S160057671900342X

[10] Kumar, A., Kostikov, Y., Zanatta, M., Soraru, G.D., Nessim, G.D., Orberger, B., Mariotto, G. (2019). Carbon nanotubes synthesis using siliceous breccia as a catalyst source. Diamond and Related Materials, 97, 107433; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diamond.2019.05.018

[11] El Mendili, Y., Vaitkus, A., Merkys, A., Gražulis, S., Chateigner, D., Mathevet, F., Gascoin, S., Petit, S., Bardeau, J-F., Zanatta, M., Secchi, M., Mariotto, G., Kumar, A. Cassetta, M., Lutterotti L., Borovin, E., Orberger, B, Le Guen, M. (2019). ROD project: First interconnected Raman-XRD open-access database for material identification worldwide, Journal of Applied Crystallography, 52, 618-625; https://doi.org/10.1107/S1600576719004229

[12] El Mendili, Y., Chateigner, D., Orberger, B., Gascoin, S, Bardeau, JF., Petit, S., Le Guen, M., Pillière, H. (2019). Combined XRF, XRD, SEM-EDS, and Raman analyses on serpentinized harzburgite (Nickel Laterite Mine, New Caledonia): Implications for Exploration and Geometallurgy. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry. 3, 10, 2237-2249; https://doi.org/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.9b00014

[13] Duée, C., Orberger, B., Maubec, N., Laperche, V., Capar, L., Bourguignon, A., Bourrat, X., El Mendili, Y., Gascoin, S., Chateigner, D., Rodriguez, C., Salaün, A., Le Guen, M., Mariotto, G., Giarola, M., Kumar, A., Daldasso, N., Zanatta, M., Lutterotti, L., Borovin, E., Bortolotti, M., Secchi, M., Montagna, M., Pillière, H., Lefevre, T., Eijkelkamp, F., Nolte, H., Koert, P., Grazulis, S., Trotet, F., Kadar, M., Devaux K. (2019). Impact of heterogeneities and surface roughness on pXRF, pIR, XRD and Raman analyses: Challenges for on-line-real-time combined mineralogical and chemical analyses on drill cores and implication for “high speed” Ni-laterite exploration. Journal of Geochemical Exploration: Special Volume on Nickel laterite, Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 198, 1-17.

[14] Bortolotti, M., Lutterotti, L., Borovin, E. and Martorelli D., (2019). Combined XRD-XRF cluster analysis for automatic chemical and crystallographic surface mappings. Powder Diffraction, 1-6.

[15] Secchi, M., Zanatta, M., Borovin, E., Bortolotti, M., Kumar, A., Giariola, M., Sanson, A., Orberger, B., Daldasso, N., Gialanella, S., Mariotto, G., Montagna, M., Lutterotti, L. (2018). Mineralogical investigations using XRD, XRF and Raman Spectroscopy in a combined approach. Journal of Raman Spectroscopy (Special Issue), 1-8; https://doi.org/10.1002/jrs.5386

[16] Orberger, B., Eijkelkamp, H., Nolte, H., Buckland, M., Le Guen, M. (2018). Increasing resource efficiency through Sonic Drilling. SEG (Society of Economic Geology) Newsletter (July, 2018), 114. (Journalistic article)

[17] Kumar, A., Kostikov, Y., Orberger, B., Nessim, Daniel Gilbert, Mariotto, G. (2018). Natural Laterite as a Catalyst Source for the Growth of Carbon Nanotubes and Nanospheres. ACS Applied Nanomaterials; https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsanm.8b01117

[18] Gražulis, S.; Merkys, A. & Vaitkus, A. (2018). Crystallography Open Database (COD). in Handbook of Materials Modeling, Springer International Publishing, 1-19; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42913-7_66-1

[19] Bui, T., Orberger, B., Blancher, S., Mohamed-Djafari, A., Pillière, H., Salaün, A., Bourrat, X., Maubec, N., Lefevre, T., Rodriguez, C., Grazulis, S., Duée, C., Harang, D., Wallmach, T., Chateigner, D., Le Guen, M. (2018). Building a Hyperspectral library and its incorporation Into sparse unmixing for mineral identification. Proceedings ICARSS (International Remote Sensing conference), Valencia Spain, July; IGARSS 2018-2018 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 4261-4264.

[20] Orberger, B., Eijkelkamp, F. and Le Guen, M. (2017). The importance of high quality drill cores for geometallurgy. 14th SGA Biennial Meeting, Quebec City, Canada, August 20-23. Mineral resources to discover, Proceedings. V.3, 1221-1223.

[21] Long, F.; Nicholls, R. A.; Emsley, P.; Gražulis, S.; Merkys, A.; Vaitkus, A. & Murshudov, G. N. (2017). Validation and extraction of stereochemical information from small molecular databases. Acta Crystallographica Section D, 73, 103-111; https://doi.org/10.1107/S2059798317000079

[22] Long, F.; Nicholls, R. A.; Emsley, P.; Gražulis, S.; Merkys, A.; Vaitkus, A. & Murshudov, G. N. ACEDRG: A stereo-chemical description generator for ligands. Acta Crystallographica Section D, 73, 112-122; https://doi.org/10.1107/S2059798317000067

[23] Fuentes-Cobas, L.F., Chateigner, D., Fuentes-Montero, M. E., Pepponi, G., Grazulis. S. (2017). The representation of coupling interactions in the Material Properties Open Database (MPOD). Advances in Applied Ceramics, (1-6); https://doi.org/10.1080/17436753.2017.1343782

[24] Duée, C., Orberger, B., Maubec, N., Laperche, V., Capar, L., Bourguignon, A., Bourrat, X., El Mendili, Y., Gascoin, S., Chateigner, D., Rodriguez, C., Salaün, A., Le Guen, M., Mariotto, G., Giarola, M., Kumar, A., Daldasso, N., Zanatta, M., Lutterotti, L., Borovin, E., Bortolotti, M., Secchi, M., Montagna, M., Pillière, H., Lefevre, T., Eijkelkamp, F., Nolte, H., Koert, P., Grazulis, S., Trotet, F., Kadar, M., Devaux K., (2017). Combined mineralogy and chemistry on drill cores: challenging for on-line real-time analyses. 14th SGA Biennial Meeting, Quebec City, Canada, August 20-23. Mineral resources to discover, Proceedings V.3, 1241-1244.

[25] Dalm, M.A., Buxton M.M.N., Van Ruitenbeek, F.J.A. (2017). Discriminating ore and waste in a porphyry copper deposit using short-wavelength infrared (SWIR) hyperspectral imagery. Minerals Engineering, 105, 10-18.

[26] Bortolotti, M., Lutterotti L., and Pepponi G., (2017). Combining XRD and XRF analysis in one Rietveld-like fitting. Powder Diffraction, 32(S1): S225-S230.

Conferences: (Selected) Abstracts, Posters, Oral presentations

Thanh Bui, B. Orberger, S. B. Blancher, A.Mohammad-Djafari, H. Pilliere, A., X. Bourrat, N. Maubec, T., C. Rodriguez, A. Vaitkus, S. Grazulis, C. Duée, D. Harang, T. Wallmach, Y. El Mendili, D.Chateigner, M. Buxton, M. Le Guen, “Mineral identification using a new hyperspectral library and sparse unmixing techniques”, European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2018, Vienna, Austria, April 2018

Thanh Bui, Beate Orberger, Simon Blancher, Ali Mohammad-Djafari, Saulius Grazulis, Yassine el Mendili, Daniel Chateigner, Henry Pilliere, Nicolas Maubec, Thomas Lefevre, Xavier Bourrat, Celine Rodriguez, Cedric Duée, Dominique Harang, Thomas Wallmach, Monique Le Guen. “A new Hyperspectral library connected to SOLSA OPEN DATA Bases for on-line-real time analyses on Ni laterites and Bauxites”, XXII Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association, Melbourne, Australia, August 2018

Huug Eijkelkamp, Fons Eijkelkamp, Harm Nolte, Peter Koert, Beate Orberger, Monique Le Guen, Mike T. Buxton, “Sonic Drilling in subsurface ore deposits: an efficient sampling tool to increase metal production”, XXII Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association, Melbourne, Australia, August 2018

Yassine El Mendili, Antanas Vaitkus, Daniel Chateigner, Stéphanie Gascoin, Sebastien Petit, Andrius Merkys, Saulius Gražulis, Henry Pilliere, Bruno Beccard, Marco Zanatta, Maria Secchi, Gino Mariotto, Arun Kumar, Luca Lutteroti, Evgeny Borovin, Thanh Bui, Beate Orberger, Monique Le Guen, “The SOLSA project: Combined techniques and databases for mineral identification”, XXII Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association, Melbourne, Australia, August 2018