Rui Jorge Coelho de Sousa (2619-9AFE-58E1)

Curriculum Vitae

Rui Jorge Coelho de Sousa

Rui Sousa, born in Matosinhos (Porto), holds a PhD degree in Mining and Geo-Environmental Engineering by the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, completed in 2020. He developed his PhD thesis in Mining Engineering, in the speciality of Mineral Processing, studying the efficiency of mineral separations, funded by the Portuguese national funding agency for science, research and technology (FCT). During his master thesis on the Almina, Minas do Alentejo Sa mineral processing plant, he studied the Froth Flotation of Cu/Zn Massive Sulfides. He also worked for a project between National Laboratory of Energy and Geology (LNEG) and the company Beralt Tin and Wolfram owner of Panasqueira Mine, studying the viability of fine tailings reprocessing. Then, he started his research career at CERENA – Center for Natural Resources and Environment, working in the SUSMIN project studying alternative gold leaching methods. In 2016, he joined LNEG to work in the European H2020 FAME Project, in which several mineral processing methods were applied to various reference ores. He contributed for the development of a continuous pilot plant, aiming the production of lepidolite concentrates by froth flotation. He has 6 publications as first author an 2 publication as co-author in specialized cientific journals. In addition to the research activities, he is Invited Professor at the Mining Department in the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Rui Jorge Coelho de Sousa

Citation names

Sousa, Rui

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 2619-9AFE-58E1
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-0992-1087

Email addresses

ruijcsousa@fe.up.pt (Professional)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2020/09/21 Concluded	Engenharia de Minas e Georrecursos (Doutoramento) Major in Sem especialidade Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal "Assessment of separation efficiency in mineral processing using the ultimate upgrading concept – a holistic window to integrate mineral liberation data" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Aprovado por unanimidade
2020/01 - 2020/06 Concluded	Transferable Skills for Engineering From Intellectual Property to Business (Outros) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2014 Concluded	Engenharia de Minas e Geoambiente (Mestrado) Major in Sem especialização Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal "Estudo da flutuação de minérios de sulfuretos maciços - Aljustrel" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	19 valores

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2022/11/07 - Current	Contracted Researcher (Research)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Recursos Naturais e Ambiente, Portugal
2016/03 - 2020/09/21	Researcher (Research)	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2016/06/01 - 2017/02/28	Research Assistant (Research)	Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia Unidade de Ciência e Tecnologia Mineral, Portugal
	Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia Unidade de Ciência e Tecnologia Mineral, Portugal
2015/05/01 - 2016/04/30	Research Assistant (Research)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2017/09/01 - Current	Invited Assistant (University Teacher)	Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Other Careers

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/08/16 - 2022/10/31	Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior)	SONAE MC - Serviços Partilhados S.A., Portugal

2020/09/01 - 2021/08/01	Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior)	Inova+, Portugal

2014/09/01 - 2015/04/30	Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior)	Sojitz Beral Tin and Wolfram (Portugal), SA, Portugal
	Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2016/05 - 2021/12/31	External Collaborator	Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia Unidade de Ciência e Tecnologia Mineral, Portugal
	Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia Unidade de Ciência e Tecnologia Mineral, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2016/05/01 - 2020/09/01	ASSESSMENT OF SEPARATION EFFICIENCY IN MINERAL PROCESSING USING THE ULTIMATE UPGRADING CONCEPT - A HOLISTIC WINDOW TO INTEGRATE MINERAL LIBERATION DATA SFRH/BD/114764/2016 PhD Student Fellow Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal	Ongoing

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2022/05/01 - 2025/04/30	Desenvolvimento de metodologias inovadoras e sustentáveis aplicadas à recuperação de ouro e elementos críticos em minérios e placas de circuito integradas utilizadas<br> ERA-MIN3/0003/2021 Centro de Recursos Naturais e Ambiente, Portugal Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2016/06/01 - 2017/04/30	FAME - Flexible and Mobile Economic Processing Technologies 641650 Research Fellow
2015/05/01 - 2016/04/30	Tools for sustainable gold mining in EU-The SUSMIN project PROJECT ERA-MIN/0002/2013 Master Student Fellow Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Recursos Naturais e Ambiente, Portugal	Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Conference paper	Sousa, Rui; Futuro, Aurora; Fiúza, António; Futuro, A.; Fiúza, A.. "Thiosulfate Leaching of the Auriferous Ore from Castromil Deposit". Paper presented in ICGGRM 2016 : 18th International Conference on Geosciences, Geology and Rock Mechanics, Prague, 2016. Accepted
Conference poster	Sousa, Rui; Ramos, Violeta; Machado Leite, Mário; Noronha, Fernando; Botelho de Sousa, Ana; Guedes, Alexandra. "The Gonçalo deposit: a good example of a future sustainable lithium mine". Paper presented in European Geosciences Union General Assembly, 2018.
Journal article	Rui Sousa; Maria João Regufe; António Fiúza; Mário Machado Leite; Aurora Futuro. "A systematic review of sustainable gold extraction from raw ores using alternative leaching reagents". The Extractive Industries and Society 9 (2022): 101018-101018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2021.101018. 10.1016/j.exis.2021.101018 Bru, Kathy; Sousa, Rui; Leite, Mário Machado; Broadbent, Chris; Stuart, Garfield; Pashkevich, Dzmitry; Martin, Mirko; Kern, Marius; Parvaz, Daniel B.. "Pilot-scale investigation of two Electric Pulse Fragmentation (EPF) approaches for the mineral processing of a low-grade cassiterite schist ore". Minerals Engineering 150 (2020): 106270. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mineng.2020.106270. Published • 10.1016/j.mineng.2020.106270 Bru, Kathy; Beaulieu, Mickaël; Sousa, Rui; Leite, Mário Machado; Botleho de Sousa, Ana; Kol, Erdogan; Rosenkranz, Jan; Parvaz, Daniel B.. "Comparative laboratory study of conventional and Electric Pulse Fragmentation (EPF) technologies on the performances of the comminution and concentration steps for the beneficiation of a scheelite skarn ore". Minerals Engineering 150 (2020): 106302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mineng.2020.106302. 10.1016/j.mineng.2020.106302 Sousa, Rui; Futuro, Aurora; Fiúza, António; Leite, Mário Machado. "Pre-concentration at crushing sizes for low-grade ores processing – Ore macro texture characterization and liberation assessment". Minerals Engineering 147 (2020): 106156. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mineng.2019.106156. 10.1016/j.mineng.2019.106156 Sousa, Rui; Violeta Ramos; Guedes, Alexandra; Ana Botelho de Sousa; Fernando Noronha; Mário Machado Leite. "Flotation of lithium ores to obtain high-grade Li2O concentrates. Are there any mineralogical limitations?". International Journal of Mining, Materials, and Metallurgical Engineering (IJMMME) 5 (2019): 7-18. Open access • Published Sousa, Rui. "Use of mineral liberation quantitative data to assess separation efficiency in mineral processing – Some case studies". Minerals Engineering (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mineng.2018.08.004. 10.1016/j.mineng.2018.08.004 Sousa, Rui. "The Alvarrões-Gonçalo Li project: an example of sustainable lithium mining". Advances in Geosciences (2018): http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/adgeo-45-1-2018. 10.5194/adgeo-45-1-2018 Sousa, R.; Futuro, A.; Fiúza, A.; Vila, M.C.; Dinis, M.L.. "Bromine leaching as an alternative method for gold dissolution". Minerals Engineering 118 (2018): 16-23. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85040073866&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.1016/j.mineng.2017.12.019 Sousa, R.; Futuro, A.; Setas Pires, C.; Machado Leite, M.. "Froth flotation of aljustrel sulphide complex ore". Physicochemical Problems of Mineral Processing 53 2 (2017): 758-769. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85014853454&partnerID=MN8TOARS. 10.5277/ppmp170207

Other

Dataset

Rui Sousa; Edgar Schach; Flavio Padula; Markus Buchmann; Robert Möckel; Doreen Ebert; Lucas Pereira; et al. Data from a pilot plant experiment for the processing of a complex tin skarn ore - 19.11.2018.
10.14278/RODARE.715

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2019/06	Pre-concentration at crushing sizes for low-grade ores processing – ore macro texture characterization and liberation assessment	Physical Separation'19 - Minerals Engineering Conference Minerals Engineering (Exeter, United Kingdom)
2019/06	Design of a Lepidolite flotation pilot plant based on lab scale tests	Doctoral Congress of Engineering 2019 – Symposium on Mining Engineering and Geo-Resources Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia (Porto, Portugal)
2019	Pilot Plant for the Processing of a Complex Tin Ore: A Contribution towards Geometallurgy in Beneficiation	ProceminGEOMET 2019 (Chile)
2018	Pilot scale testing of the flotation and chemical processing of lepidolite concentrates from Gonçalo Pegmatite, Portugal	MINEX - 3rd European Mining and Exploration Forum
2018	Processing of Li pegmatite using combined electrostatic and flotation methods: role of the mineral composition and liberation degree	Process Mineralogy’18 and High Tech Metals’18 Minerals Engineering
2018	Production of Li-Mica Concentrates from Gonçalo Pegmatite, Portugal	IOM3 Geometallurgy Conference IOM3
2018	Portuguese Potential as European Li Supplier	IOM3 Conference - FAME final conference IOM3
2017	Mineralogical constraints in ore processing of Li-rich pegmatites	Goldshmidt Conference 2017 (France)
2016	Thiosulfate Leaching of the Auriferous Ore from Castromil Deposit	ICGGRM 2016 : 18th International Conference on Geosciences, Geology and Rock Mechanics (Czech Republic)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2020/02 - 2020/07	Hidrometalurgia do Lítio – Obtenção de compostos de lítio a partir de concentrados de Lepidolite Co-supervisor	Engenharia de Minas e Geo-Ambiente (Master) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2020/02 - 2020/07	Determinação dos descritores de desempenho dos processos de classificação de uma instalação industrial de lavagem de caulinos Co-supervisor	Engenharia de Minas (Master) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2020/02 - 2020/07	Reagentes alternativos à lixiviação do ouro - Estudo da adsorção e dessorção do ouro em carvão ativado Co-supervisor	Engenharia de Minas (Master) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2019/01 - 2019/07	Reprocessamento dos Rejeitados da Barragem de Lamas do Cabeço do Pião para recuperação de cobre e zinco por flutuação Co-supervisor of Catarina Filipa Gonçalves Mendes	Engenharia de Minas e Geo-Ambiente (Master) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2019/01/01 - 2019/07/30	Part of the organizing committee of the Symposium on Mining Engineering and Geo-Resources - Doctoral Congress of Engineering 2019. (2019/01/01 - 2019/07/31) Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2017/01/01 - 2020/09/30	Member of the monitoring committee of the Doctoral Program in Mining and Geo-Resources Engineering Member	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2019/09/01 - 2019/12/31	Member of the FEUP Pedagogic Council to represent the monitoring committee of the Doctoral Program in Mining and Geo-Resources Engineering Member	Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2018 - Current	Hydrometallurgy (0304-386X)	Elsevier

Other jury / evaluation

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2018/05 - 2018/10	RUI JORGE SOUSA of the Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto, PORTUGAL, has participated as external reviewer for proposals submitted to the 2019 FONDECYT Regular Competition.	Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica Fondo Nacional de Desarrollo Científico y Tecnológico, Chile

Distinctions

Award

2019	Best Oral Presentation on the Doctoral Congress 2019 – Symposium on Mining Engineering and Geo-Resources