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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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)
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

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

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

Publications

Conference paper
  1. 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
  1. 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
  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  1. 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

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

Award

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