Kurt Aasly
Background and activities
Associate Professor in Process Mineralogy.
Head of Mineral Production and HSE research group since August 2020
Member of NOU for the evaluation of the Norwegian Minerals Act from July 2020 to December 2021.
Teaching responsibilities:
- GEOL1005 Geometallurgy
- TGB4240 Process Mineralogy
- GB8402 Advanced Process Mineralogy
And contributing in several other courses: TGB4227 Mineral production, Basic Course; TGB4112 Geology and Geological Resources of Norway; GB8508 PhD seminar in Geology and Mineral Resources
Ongoing PhD supervision:
- Nikolas Oberhard: Safe usage of local rock materials in concrete construction: Characterisation and quantification of sulphide minerals in aggregates.
PhD supervised to completion:
- Aleksandra Lang: Geometallurgical flowsheet development and specification at Verdalskalk AS - InRec project WP1 (2020)
- Camilo Andrés Mena Silva: Effective Sampling and Mineral Characterization at Sibelco Stjernøy - InRec project WP2 (2019)
- Marte Tøgersen: Increased Recovery of Iron from the Storforsheid Iron Formation (2019)
- Kristin Husebø Hestnes: Development of process mineralogy for optimization and increased value of the mineral production in Sibelco Nordic (2013)
Ongoing research projects:
- InRec - Increased Recovery in the Norwegian Mining Industry by Implementing the Geometallurgical Concept
- MarMine - Exploitation Technologies for Marine Minerals on the Extended Norwegian Continental Shelf
- MiMaC - Norwegian Laboratory for Mineral and Materials Characterisation
- CAMOC - Centre of Advanced Mineral and Ore Characterization
Scientific, academic and artistic work
Displaying a selection of activities. See all publications in the database
Journal publications
- (2020) Gjenvinning er bare en liten del av løsningen. Adresseavisen.
- (2020) Et lite mineralkorn kan skape store problemer i betong!. geoforskning.no.
- (2020) Mineralutvinning på havbunnen?. Skipsrevyen. vol. 50 (4).
- (2020) Ligger vår fremtid på havdypet?. Adresseavisen.
- (2020) A neural network approach for spatial variation assessment – A nepheline syenite case study. Minerals Engineering. vol. 149.
- (2019) Mineraler fra nano- til mikroskala. Anleggsmagasinet.
- (2019) Geometallurgical Concepts Used in Industrial Mineral Production. Economic Geology and The Bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists. vol. 114 (8).
- (2019) Simultaneous leaching of seafloor massive sulfides and polymetallic nodules. Minerals. vol. 9 (8).
- (2018) Efficient extraction of copper and zinc from seafloor massive sulphide rock samples from the Loki's Castle area at the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge. Minerals Engineering. vol. 115.
- (2018) Galvanic Leaching of Seafloor Massive Sulphides Using MnO2 in H2SO4-NaCl Media. Minerals. vol. 8 (6).
- (2018) Geometallurgical Flowsheet as a Tool for Designing and Communicating Geometallurgical Programs. Minerals. vol. 8 (9).
- (2018) Mineral characterization as a tool in the implementation of geometallurgy into industrial mineral mining. Minerals Engineering. vol. 116.
- (2018) Geometallurgical Approach to the Element-to-Mineral Conversion for the Nabbaren Nepheline Syenite Deposit. Minerals. vol. 8 (8).
- (2018) The effect of graphite filler in sample preparation for automated mineralogy – a preliminary study. Mineralproduksjon. vol. 8.
- (2018) Characterisation of Mineralised Material from the Loki’s Castle Hydrothermal Vent on the Mohn’s Ridge. Minerals. vol. 8 (12).
- (2018) Mineralogy and texture of the Storforshei iron formation, and their effect on grindability. Minerals Engineering. vol. 125.
- (2016) Gull på havbunnen?. Dagens næringsliv.
- (2015) MarMine – Utvinningsteknologier for marine mineraler på den utvidede norske kontinentalsokkelen. Mineralproduksjon. vol. 6.
- (2014) Geometallurgy applied to industrial minerals operations. Mineralproduksjon.
- (2013) Occurrence of iron in industrial granitic pegmatite. Minerals Engineering. vol. 52.
- (2006) Critical Factors for Handling of Quartz. Medellanden från MinFo.
Part of book/report
- (2017) ROV based drilling for deep sea mining exploration. IEEE OCEANS 2017 - Aberdeen.
- (2007) A review of previous work on important properties of quartz for FeSi and Si metal production. INFACON XI: Innovations in the Ferro Ally Industry, Volum 1.
- (2007) Advanced methods to characterize thermal properties of quartz. INFACON XI: Innovations in the Ferro Ally Industry, Volum 1.
- (2006) Quartz for Carbothermic Production of Silicon - effect of the process steps, handling and transport from mine to furnace. Silicon for the chemical industry VIII.
Report/dissertation
- (2019) Magnetkis i betongtilslag. Effekt på betongs bestandighet. 2019. ISBN 978-82-8208-064-4. Nordic Concrete Research (463).
- (2016) NTNU Cruise reports 2016 no 1 - MarMine cruise report Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge 15.08.2016 - 05.09.2016. 2016. NTNU Cruise reports (1).
- (2008) Properties and behavior of quartz for the silicon process. 2008. ISBN 978-82-471-1164-2. Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU (2008:236).
Others
- (2019) Process mineralogy of none-metallic mineral deposits. JKMRC Friday Seminar Series . Julius Kruttschnitt Mineral Research Centre; Brisbane. 2019-10-04.
- (2019) Trenger vi mineralene fra havbunnen? Hva innebærer det å starte utvinning av havbunnens ressurser?. NTNU Kveld . NTNU; Dokkhuset, Trondheim. 2019-04-23.
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Competencies
- Other subjects within rock and petroleum sciences
- Geosciences
- Mineralogy, petrology, geochemistry
- Industrial minerals
- Mineralogy
- Optical mineralogy
- Resource geology
- Minerals
- Process mineralogy
- Mineral characterization
- Geometallurgy
- Mineral production
- Automated Mineralogy
- Marine minerals
- Deep sea mining