Environmental Geochemistry Group ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** ''We are looking for cooperation with academic partners as well as public and private orga fields of geosciences relating to the actual environmental problems.'' ****************************************************************************************** * Offer ****************************************************************************************** We can offer our experience, knowledge and advanced analytical technique to suggest soluti problems in actual environmental geochemistry. - Improvement of analytical techniques in geosciences, testing certified reference materia - Understanding the mechanisms of release of metals and metalloids from waste materials fr smelting - Suggestions of possible remediation of contaminated environment - Application of Raman spectrometry techniques in organic geochemistry ****************************************************************************************** * Know-how & Technologies ****************************************************************************************** By means of environmental geosciences, environmental and organic geochemistry we aim to ob knowledge of the biogeochemical processes in the Earth´s environments, therefore we study: - Biogeochemical cycles - Waste materials from mining and smelting operations - Exobiology and organics in the environment - Analysis of geomaterials ****************************************************************************************** * Content of Research ****************************************************************************************** - How chemical elements are cycled in the environment - How the environment can be affected by the disposal of mining and smelting waste - What is the behaviour of organic compounds in the environmental compartments *========================================================================================= * Main Capabilities *========================================================================================= Focus on all kinds of surface processes related to the biogeochemical cycling of elements on me-tals and metalloids released from anthropogenic sour-ces), interactions between envi compartments (soil, water, atmosphere, waste materials). *========================================================================================= * Key Research Equipment *========================================================================================= ICP techniques: ICP MS, LA ICP MS, ICP OES Other instrumental equipment: FAAS, Eltra CS 530 TS, TC and CS 500 TIC, AMA 254 Hg analyse Raman microspectrometry, XRD, EDS SEM ****************************************************************************************** * Partners and Collaborations ****************************************************************************************** *========================================================================================= * Academic Partners *========================================================================================= Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech Geological Survey | BRGM (French Geologica | University of Bradford | Institute of Geology, The Academy of Sciences of the Czech Repu of Inorganic Chemistry, The Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic | Reference Material USGS, Denver | International Association of Geoanalysts – G-Probe programme | Institute of Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena *========================================================================================= * Private and Public Sector *========================================================================================= Asekol – Urban mining (Precious metals and REE determination) | Enviropol – Recycling of W of determination techniques) *========================================================================================= * Main Projects *========================================================================================= - Arsenic speciation in mining wastes: case studies in systems dominated by ferric sulfo-a Science Foundation) 2013–2015 - Towards a better understanding of environmental As mineralogy under reducing conditions: realgar and evaluation of its role in remediation (Czech Science Foundation) 2016–2018 - Modeling the competitive adsorption of metals and As onto Fe nano-oxides: Implication fo remediation (Czech Science Foundation) 2015–2017 - Reactivity of anthropogenic metal-bearing geomaterials in soils (Czech Science Foundatio - Arsenic speciation in mining wastes: case studies in systems dominated by ferric sulfo-a Science Foundation) 2013–2015 - Mining and processing of Cu, Pb, Zn and Co ores in Sub-Saharan Africa: natural geochemic for investigation of pollutant behaviours (Czech Science Foundation) 2016–2018 ****************************************************************************************** * Achievements ****************************************************************************************** Regular publication of papers in international ISI-ranked journals | Testing of certified materials | Elucidation of the mechanism of release of metals and metaloids to the environ ****************************************************************************************** * Are you interested in this expertise? ****************************************************************************************** Please contact CPPT UK Web: www.cppt.cuni.cz/ [ URL "https://cppt.cuni.cz/"] Mail: transfer@cuni.cz Phone: +420 224 491 255 ****************************************************************************************** * Experts and their Department ****************************************************************************************** Prof. RNDr. Martin Mihaljevič, CSc. Department of Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Mineral Resources Web: web.natur.cuni.cz/ugmnz