Department of Mining & Mineral Engineering
Guven Akdogan
Professor
Mining and Mineral Engineering
DUCK 403
Research Interests:
- Characterisation of minerals in ores/byproducts (XRD/XRF, ICPMS)
- Processing/extraction of critical metals (REE, Cu, Ni, Co, Au, PGMs)
- Recycling of battery materials (LCO, NMC, LFP)
- Reprocessing of old/active mine tailings (Au, PGMs)
- Processing critical metals from plant/mine dumps (ash, slag, reverts)
Long Fan
Assistant Professor
Mining and Mineral Engineering
Duck 319
Research Interests:
- Geomechanics with injected fluids
- Mining ground control
- Health and safety in the mining industry
- Applications of data science and machine learning in the energy industry
- Intelligent mining and automation
- Rock mechanics
- Fluids transportation and adsorption in unconventional oil and gas production
- Nano-dust characterization and its health effect
- Ventilation optimization and simulation
Tathagata Ghosh
Department Chair | Professor
Mining and Mineral Engineering
Duck 317
Research Interests:
- Computational fluid dynamics applications in mineral processing
- Numerical modeling
- Dry separation
- Advanced physical processing
- Comminution
- Population balance modeling
- Process simulation and control
- Coal preparation
- Fine particle processing
- Gravity separation techniques
- Flotation
- Agglomeration
- Advanced beneficiation technologies
Jill Riddle
Office Manager
Department of Mining and Mineral Engineering | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
DUCK 301
Emeriti
