Dr Michael Anenburg
Research Fellow
B.Sc, M.Sc (BGU), Ph.D (ANU), SEG Lindgren Fellow
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About
I am an ARC Industry Fellow at the experimental petrology lab, currently working on a collaborative research project with BHP to use high temperature liquid salt methods to process REE-rich mine waste from the Olympic Dam tailings.
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Affiliations
Research area
- Geochemistry, Researcher
Groups
- Experimental Petrology, Researcher
Research interests
I am currently working on various magmatic-hydrothermal processes that lead to the formation of ore deposits of rare metals, including the REE (La-Lu), Y, PGE (platinum group elements), etc. I am particularly interested in the behaviour of these metals in carbonatites and related systems.
- Rare earth elements in magmatic-hydrothermal systems
- Carbonatites and other salt melts
- Igneous sulfides and platinum group elements
- Thermodynamics of mineral systems
- Crystal growth
- REE pattern modelling using the lambda method
- Oxygen fugacity and its relationship to natural processes
- Advanced analytical methods using EPMA and preparation of microbeam reference materials
Teaching information
EMSC3007 Economic Geology
EMSC3024 Magmatism and Metamorphism
Supervised students
Location
J1 120