Anouk spent a week at the ANKA Light Source at the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology in Germany to continue a series of synchrotron-based studies of eudialyte-hosted REE ores. This visit was part of an ongoing collaboration with Platon Gamaletsos at the Center for Electron Nanoscopy, DTU Denmark to study the micro/nano-scale distribution of REE and …
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Adrian gave his inaugural lecture to the University on the 25th October 2017 in School III, adjacent to St Leonard's Quadrangle. The audience included the Principal's Office of the University and the Principal herself. The note of thanks was given by Professor Douglas Philp, Dean of the Faculty of Science. https://earthsci.st-andrews.ac.uk/2017/10/17/inaugural-lecture-by-professor-adrian-finch-25th-oct-2017/ https://memos.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2017/10/11/inaugural-lecture-by-professor-adrian-finch-25th-oct-2017/
Three speakers from my research group (Adrian Finch, Anouk Borst and Nicky Horsburgh) have been invited as keynote speakers to the "SOS RARE: Brazilian symposium on rare-earth elements" http://www.ifsc.usp.br/~emulabram/symposium.html to be held in early November in Sao Paolo, Brazil. The symposium will also involve field excursions to the carbonatite at Araxa (the world's largest Nb …
Adrian Finch has just returned from a two week field expedition to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia to look at the rare element deposits. Adrian was invited by the HiTech AlkCarb consortium to take part in its field visits led by consortium member Professor Jindřich Kynický of the Mendel University of Brno in the Czech Republic. …
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We would like to draw your attention to a special session on Alkaline magmatism, carbonatites and associated mineral resources at the Nordic Geological Winter Meeting in Denmark, January 10-12, 2018. The website is now open for abstract submission. Abstract deadline: October 15th 2017 Session 1.6. Alkaline magmatism, carbonatites and associated mineral resources Alkaline igneous rocks and carbonatites are the world’s dominant resources for critical …
Three of the research group (Anouk Borst, Nicky Horsburgh and Adrian Finch) attended the Goldschmidt 2017 conference in Paris. Goldschmidt is the world's largest geochemistry conference. We gave three presentations on topics as disparate as x-ray absorption clays, luminescence in minerals and rift evolution in the Gardar. The Spatio-Temporal Evolution of Gardar Rift Magmatism: Hf …
St Andrews celebrates the award of two major consortium grants into critical metal exploration.
