SoS RARE: multidisciplinary research towards a secure and environmentally sustainable supply of critical rare earth elements (Nd and HREE)

• Grant number: 14/50819-9
• Support Opportunities: Research Projects - Thematic Grants
• Start date: June 01, 2015
• End date: May 31, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Geosciences - Geology
• Agreement: NERC, UKRI
• Principal Investigator: Daniel Atencio
• Grantee: Daniel Atencio
• Principal researcher abroad: Frances Wall
• Institution abroad: University of Exeter, Exeter, England
• Host Institution: Instituto de Geociências (IGC). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 15/26689-0 - Crystal-chemical characterization of minerals from the alkaline complex of Poços de Caldas - MG, BP.PD

Abstract

The principal aims of this project are to understand the mobility and concentration of Nd and heavy rare earth elements (HREE) in natural systems and to investigate new processes that will lower the environmental impact of REE extraction and recovery. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

ATENCIO, DANIEL; AZZI, ANDREZZA DE ALMEIDA. Cerite: a new supergroup of minerals and cerite-(La) renamed ferricerite-(La). MINERALOGICAL MAGAZINE, v. 84, n. 6, p. 928-931, DEC 2020. (17/25426-1, 19/23498-0, 14/50819-9, 15/26689-0)

MENEZES FILHO, LUIZ A. D.; CHAVES, MARIO L. S. C.; CHUKANOV, NIKITA; ATENCIO, DANIEL; SCHOLZ, RICARDO; PEKOV, IGOR; DA COSTA, GERALDO MAGELA; MORRISON, SHAUNNA M.; ANDRADE, MARCELO B.; FREITAS, ERICO T. F.; et al. Parisite-(La), ideally CaLa2(CO3)(3)F-2, a new mineral from Novo Horizonte, Bahia, Brazil. MINERALOGICAL MAGAZINE, v. 82, n. 1, p. 133-144, FEB 2018. (14/50819-9, 13/03487-8)

ATENCIO, DANIEL; ANDRADE, MARCELO B.; BASTOS NETO, ARTUR C.; PEREIRA, VITOR P.. RALSTONITE RENAMED HYDROKENORALSTONITE, COULSELLITE RENAMED FLUORNATROCOULSELLITE, AND THEIR INCORPORATION INTO THE PYROCHLORE SUPERGROUP. CANADIAN MINERALOGIST, v. 55, n. 1, p. 115-120, JAN 1 2017. (14/50819-9, 13/03487-8)

BROOM-FENDLEY, SAM; SMITH, MARTIN P.; ANDRADE, MARCELO B.; RAY, SANTANU; BANKS, DAVID A.; LOYE, EDWARD; ATENCIO, DANIEL; PICKLES, JONATHAN R.; WALL, FRANCES. Sulfur-bearing monazite-(Ce) from the Eureka carbonatite, Namibia: oxidation state, substitution mechanism, and formation conditions. MINERALOGICAL MAGAZINE, v. 84, n. 1, p. 35-48, FEB 1 2020. (14/50819-9)