Kurt Aasly

Associate Professor

Department of Geoscience and Petroleum

kurt.aasly@ntnu.no +47 73558946 +47 93443511

Petroleumsteknisk senter, 328, Valgrinda, S. P. Andersens veg 15a

Associate Professor in Process Mineralogy.

Head of Mineral Production and HSE research group

Member of NOU for the evaluation of the Norwegian Minerals Act from July 2020 to June 2022.

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 projects:

Safe use of local aggregates in concrete: The effect of pyrrhotite on concrete durability
MiMaC - Norwegian Laboratory for Mineral and Materials Characterisation

Recent 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
CAMOC - Centre of Advanced Mineral and Ore Characterization

Courses

Scientific, academic and artistic work

Displaying a selection of activities. See all publications in the database

Journal publications

Ochromowicz, Katarzyna; Aasly, Kurt; Kowalczuk, Przemyslaw. (2021) Recent Advancements in Metallurgical Processing of Marine Minerals. Minerals. vol. 11 (12).
Aasly, Kurt; Ellefmo, Steinar Løve. (2020) Gjenvinning er bare en liten del av løsningen. Adresseavisen.
Aasly, Kurt; Oberhardt, Nikolas; Pedersen, Bård Magne; Wigum, Børge Johannes; Hagelia, Per. (2020) Et lite mineralkorn kan skape store problemer i betong!. geoforskning.no.
Ellefmo, Steinar Løve; Aasly, Kurt; Ludvigsen, Martin; Søreide, Fredrik. (2020) Mineralutvinning på havbunnen?. Skipsrevyen. vol. 50 (4).
Ellefmo, Steinar Løve; Aasly, Kurt; Søreide, Fredrik. (2020) Ligger vår fremtid på havdypet?. Adresseavisen.
Mena Silva, Camilo Andres; Ellefmo, Steinar Løve; Sandøy, Roar; Sørensen, Bjørn Eske; Aasly, Kurt. (2020) A neural network approach for spatial variation assessment – A nepheline syenite case study. Minerals Engineering. vol. 149.
Aasly, Kurt. (2019) Mineraler fra nano- til mikroskala. Anleggsmagasinet.
Ellefmo, Steinar Løve; Aasly, Kurt; Lang, Aleksandra Maria; Vezhapparambu, Veena Sajith; Mena Silva, Camilo Andres. (2019) Geometallurgical Concepts Used in Industrial Mineral Production. Economic Geology and The Bulletin of the Society of Economic Geologists. vol. 114 (8).
Kowalczuk, Przemyslaw; Bouzahzah, Hassan; Kleiv, Rolf Arne; Aasly, Kurt. (2019) Simultaneous leaching of seafloor massive sulfides and polymetallic nodules. Minerals. vol. 9 (8).
Kowalczuk, Przemyslaw B.; Snook, Ben; Kleiv, Rolf Arne; Aasly, Kurt. (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.
Kowalczuk, Przemyslaw; Dan, Oliric Manaig; Drivenes, Kristian; Snook, Ben; Aasly, Kurt; Kleiv, Rolf Arne. (2018) Galvanic Leaching of Seafloor Massive Sulphides Using MnO2 in H2SO4-NaCl Media. Minerals. vol. 8 (6).
Lang, Aleksandra Maria; Ellefmo, Steinar Løve; Aasly, Kurt. (2018) Geometallurgical Flowsheet as a Tool for Designing and Communicating Geometallurgical Programs. Minerals. vol. 8 (9).
Lang, Aleksandra; Aasly, Kurt; Ellefmo, Steinar Løve. (2018) Mineral characterization as a tool in the implementation of geometallurgy into industrial mineral mining. Minerals Engineering. vol. 116.
Mena Silva, Camilo Andrés; Sørensen, Bjørn Eske; Aasly, Kurt; Ellefmo, Steinar Løve. (2018) Geometallurgical Approach to the Element-to-Mineral Conversion for the Nabbaren Nepheline Syenite Deposit. Minerals. vol. 8 (8).
Røisi, Ida; Aasly, Kurt. (2018) The effect of graphite filler in sample preparation for automated mineralogy – a preliminary study. Mineralproduksjon. vol. 8.
Snook, Ben; Drivenes, Kristian; Rollinson, Gavyn; Aasly, Kurt. (2018) Characterisation of Mineralised Material from the Loki’s Castle Hydrothermal Vent on the Mohn’s Ridge. Minerals. vol. 8 (12).
Tøgersen, Marte Kristine; Kleiv, Rolf Arne; Ellefmo, Steinar Løve; Aasly, Kurt. (2018) Mineralogy and texture of the Storforshei iron formation, and their effect on grindability. Minerals Engineering. vol. 125.
Ludvigsen, Martin; Aasly, Kurt; Ellefmo, Steinar Løve. (2016) Gull på havbunnen?. Dagens næringsliv.
Aasly, Kurt. (2015) MarMine – Utvinningsteknologier for marine mineraler på den utvidede norske kontinentalsokkelen. Mineralproduksjon. vol. 6.
Aasly, Kurt; Ellefmo, Steinar Løve. (2014) Geometallurgy applied to industrial minerals operations. Mineralproduksjon.
Hestnes, Kristin Husebø; Aasly, Kurt; Sandøy, Roar; Sørensen, Bjørn Eske. (2013) Occurrence of iron in industrial granitic pegmatite. Minerals Engineering. vol. 52.
Aasly, Kurt; Malvik, Terje; Myrhaug, Edin. (2006) Critical Factors for Handling of Quartz. Medellanden från MinFo.

Part of book/report

Ludvigsen, Martin; Søreide, Fredrik; Aasly, Kurt; Ellefmo, Steinar Løve; Zylstra, Michael; Pardey, Marshall. (2017) ROV based drilling for deep sea mining exploration. IEEE OCEANS 2017 - Aberdeen.
Aasly, Kurt; Malvik, Terje; Myrhaug, Edin. (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.
Aasly, Kurt; Malvik, Terje; Myrhaug, Edin. (2007) Advanced methods to characterize thermal properties of quartz. INFACON XI: Innovations in the Ferro Ally Industry, Volum 1.
Aasly, Kurt; Malvik, Terje; Myrhaug, Edin. (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

Laugesen, Jens; Aasly, Kurt; Ellefmo, Steinar Løve. (2021) Teknologirappport Havbunnsmineraler, DNV rapport nr 1231487. 2021.
Danielsen, Svein Willy; Hagelia, Per; Wigum, Børge Johannes; De Weerdt, Klaartje; Aasly, Kurt; Lindgård, Jan; Pedersen, Bård. (2019) Magnetkis i betongtilslag. Effekt på betongs bestandighet. 2019. ISBN 978-82-8208-064-4. Nordic Concrete Research (463).
Ludvigsen, Martin; Aasly, Kurt; Ellefmo, Steinar Løve; Hilário, Ana; Ramirez-Llodra, Eva; Søreide, Fredrik Xander; Falcon-Suarez, Ismael; Juliani, Cyril Jerome; Kieswetter, Amanda; Lim, Anna; Malmquist, Christian; Nornes, Stein Melvær; Reimers, Hauke; Paulsen, Emil; Sture, Øystein. (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).
Aasly, Kurt. (2008) Properties and behavior of quartz for the silicon process. 2008. ISBN 978-82-471-1164-2. Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU (2008:236).

Others

Aasly, Kurt. (2019) Process mineralogy of none-metallic mineral deposits. JKMRC Friday Seminar Series . Julius Kruttschnitt Mineral Research Centre; Brisbane. 2019-10-04.
Aasly, Kurt. (2019) Trenger vi mineralene fra havbunnen? Hva innebærer det å starte utvinning av havbunnens ressurser?. NTNU Kveld . NTNU; Dokkhuset, Trondheim. 2019-04-23.
Dhar, Priyanka; Bouzahzah, Hassan; Aasly, Kurt; Thornhill, Maria; Kota, Hanumantha Rao. (2018) Flotation flowsheet development for the new Nussir ASA copper ore deposit in northern Norway. International Mineral Processing Conference (IMPC XXIX) ; Moscow. 2018-09-17 - 2018-09-21.
Hahn, Klaus M.; Lennartz, Jutta; Kleiv, Rolf Arne; Aasly, Kurt; Wotruba, Hermann; Kowalczuk, Przemyslaw. (2018) Application of optical sensor-based sorting for preconcentration of seafloor massive sulphides. 8th Sensor-Based Sorting & Control . RWTH Aachen University; Aachen. 2018-03-06 - 2018-03-06.

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